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Poor People's Campaign Tour and March on Washington

The Poor People's and Low-Wage Workers' Assembly has embarked on its Mobilization Tour, making at least ten stops nationwide to do MORE: Mobilize, Organize, Register, and Educate people for a movement that votes. All leading to the historic Assembly and March on Washington on June 18, 2022. Check here for virtual tour dates! Also, if you're planning to be in DC for the march, let us know at religioussocialism@dsacommittees.org so that we can meet up!

Webinars to Watch

Religion & the Left Series #2: The Individual, the Collective & the Common Good ICYMI: The livestream recording of the April 26th Religion & the Left series panel features the perspectives of several religious traditions followed by Q&A. Also, view the recording of the first discussion in the series asking, "What can religious traditions bring to the Left?" Dharma and Justice Dialogues Watch Union Theological Seminary's final Dharma and Justice Dialogues of the Spring semester recorded on April 11, featuring Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad and Dr. Toni Pressley-Sanon as they discuss Dr. Vesely-Flad's newly released publication, Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition: The Practice of Stillness in the Movement for Liberation. Ending Ageism Watch the April 5th "Ending Ageism" webinar, featuring Margaret Morganroth Gullette, author of Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People; Susan Chacin, long-term feminist activist; and Paul Garver, retired labor leader and a co-convener of the RS Buddhist Group. King and Breaking the Silence View the recording of the “King and Breaking the Silence” virtual gathering on April 4. We came together to listen to Rev. Dr. King’s 1967 speech and reflections on it from current activists because we believe it offers a vision and a bridge upon which to continue to build the intergenerational and intersectional movements we desperately need in order to achieve the revolution of values Dr. King called for.

Further Discussion

At religioussocialism.org, we regularly publish original articles and lift up pieces connected to our work. Check us out on Twitter or Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube channel. Also follow our podcast, Heart of a Heartless World, available on SoundCloud and iTunes. Unitarian Universalists! If you'd like to get involved with the new UU faith-based subgroup, Unitarian Universalists of the DSA, contact uureligioussocialists@gmail.com. We're just getting started, expect more in the fUtUre! Watch Professor Richard D. Wolff interview Professor Joerg Rieger on Christian Socialism on the March 28th episode of Democracy at Work (starts at approximately 15:00 in). Also, watch Rieger speak about deep solidarity at last year's DSA Religion & Socialism Working Group conference on "Building the Religious Left." Dr. Maha Hilal, author of Innocent Until Proven Muslim, shared this dua'a on Eid al-Fitr from Muslim Counterpublics Lab, a radical discursive space focused on combatting systems of oppression rooted in Islamophobia through advocacy, writing, and more. In Democratic Left, co-convener of the RS Buddhist Group Ty Kiatathikom writes "Please Don’t Forget About Afghanistan." If you’re not yet a member, join DSA!