A documentary about the movement to end poverty
"We've got to make this a new story" - Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
ABOUT THE FILM
The Film
“AN UNSETTLING FORCE” tells the story of a bold new social movement to end poverty in the United States, led by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis. Inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1968 Poor People’s Campaign, Reverend Barber, a pastor from a small town in North Carolina, joined other clergy to launch a national movement led by poor and working people. During the Summer of 2018, thousands of people - Black, white, Latino, First Nation, Asian, Jewish, Muslim and Christian, people not of faith, gay, straight, young and old - work together, picking up the baton from the freedom fighters of the Civil Rights Movement.
Impact
The Poor People's Campaign is a timely, grassroots movement that seeks to address and issue that is often ignored. Poverty is the 4th leading cause of death in the United States. It affects millions of Americas, and yet is a hard thing for most people to take an honest look at. And with news organizations struggling to remain profitable, this has meant a lack of reporting on this vital subject. And the reporting that does exist can sometimes promotes many myths about poverty that take us further away from real solutions. This film seeks to turn that around.