On January 13-22, 2008 students, faculty, and staff of Union Theological Seminary, emerging Poverty Initiative Poverty Scholars and members of the Media Mobilizing Project will learn about the realities of poverty in the US South and the work communities are engaged in to end poverty.
Our journey will include discovery, reflection and relationship-building with people living in Tennessee and Mississippi who experience and organize against conditions of poverty. Participants will also engage in reflective discussion about theories of poverty and race, the history of organizing in Appalachia and the South, the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement and the Poor People’s Campaign, the issues of welfare reform, health care, and living wage jobs, etc.
Through this online journal reflection posted during our travels we invite the larger community to "travel" with us in the exploration of these very important issues.
Please consider inviting one of the course participants, Poverty Initiative staff and/or a Poverty Scholar to speak to your congregation or class about our experience. Also, please consider donating to the Poverty Initiative to help fund this trip as well as other programs. More information can be found at our website: http://www.povertyinitiative.org/.
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Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Poor People's Campaign
About Us
The Poverty Initiative is dedicated to raising up generations of religious and community leaders committed to building a movement, led by the poor, to end poverty. We are based at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York.
About the trip
This immersion course will explore the reality of poverty in Tennessee and the Mississippi Delta, offering tools for overcoming and eliminating poverty. Commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Poor People’s Campaign launched by Martin Luther King Jr. in December 1967, we will travel to Marks, Mississippi, where the campaign began, other towns and cities in Mississippi, as well as Tennessee and Alabama to learn from community and religious leaders involved in a growing movement to end poverty. Experience will include poverty reality tours, Bible studies, video-showings, and dialogue with leaders of local and national poor people’s organizations and religious congregations engaged in mission work and community organizing.
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