About America Will Be

AMERICA WILL BE is a film project documenting how organizers across the country are building the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival to help us become the nation we’ve not yet been. We invite you to explore the episodes, podcast and interviews to learn more about this diverse movement.

Episode 1

This is what it looks like for the poor to lead America towards a much-needed "revolution of values." This is what the New Poor People's Campaign looks like. There's a "new and unsettling force" arising in America. The poor and dispossessed, facing worse and worse conditions, are coming together in new ways. We're looking to the 50th Anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Poor People's Campaign as an opportunity to go on the offensive in the struggle to unite the poor against the root causes of racism, war, poverty, and climate crisis.

Episode 2

What is poverty? Who are the poor? Why is there poverty? This episode presents both the scale and scope of poverty and underscores how the poor are not only victims of injustice but leaders in the effort to end it — and to envision alternatives. From rural Aberdeen, Washington, where the community confronts crises of opioid addiction, youth incarceration, and job loss, to Flint, Michigan where poor mothers fight the forces that poisoned their water, to the workers of Fight for $15, who have built a national struggle for a living wage, we meet some of the leaders of this movement and see how poverty crosses the divides of race, gender, age, and geography.

Episode 3: The Spirit of Struggle

As different communities across the U.S. confront the forces that inflict great misery on human life and dignity, a clear moral and religious truth is also emerging. The people and struggles that make up the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival are providing profound religious and moral insight into who we are and who we can be as people and as a society. This struggle also allows us to better understand the immoral and heretical forms of religion utilized by the forces we are up against. Finally, the struggle is helping us to envision an alternative to this world of violence and degradation, a world in which life is treated as sacred and helped to thrive. This episode shares some of the deep religious and spiritual insights emerging out of this movement that help guide the struggle.