You Only Get What You're Organized to Take: Lessons from the Movement to End Poverty

We are living in a gilded age of poverty amid plenty. In one of the wealthiest countries in the world, 40 million people live below the official poverty line and another 100 million people are one emergency away from economic ruin. But it doesn’t have to be this way.In You Only Get What You’re Organized to Take, Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, one of the nation’s leading anti-poverty organizers and moral voices, and her co-author, Noam Sandweiss-Back, argue it is possible to abolish poverty. But this won’t happen through the goodwill of the powerful or the charitable actions of well-meaning people alone. It will happen through a mass movement, open to all, and led by the poor themselves.Weaving together threads of history, theology, political analysis, and more, Theoharis traces her own journey through some of the most significant anti-poverty struggles of the past 30 years. Along the way, she and Sandweiss-Back introduce readers to the unsung heroes leading the movement to end poverty: Unho