Hi, everyone! My name is Becca Forsyth and I'm here representing Mothers Out Front Southern Tier and the Elmira Poor People’s Campaign. We are a small group that is a part of a National Call for Moral Revival. In the 1960s, Martin Luther King called on us to stand against what he called the triplets of evil- systemic racism, poverty and the war economy. Today, we revive this call and add to the list the evil that is ecological devastation and a distorted moral narrative.

We are shifting the narrative by shifting the narrator.

The 40 Days of Action in May and June were an exciting launch for the Poor People's Campaign in New York and nationwide, and we're excited to invite you to take part in the next steps of the campaign here in New York.

I'm with the Poor People's Campaign for my neighbors in North Central Troy: a Puerto Rican family who collects scrap metal to make a living as their house crumbles around them.  They can't get good food for their kids because there's no grocery stores near them and they can't grow any food on their property, because the soil is contaminated with lead and industrial chemicals.