Rosalyn Pelles serves as Vice President of Repairers of the Breach and she is on the national coordinating committee of the Poor People's Campaign.

Rosalyn Pelles serves as Vice President of Repairers of the Breach and she is on the national coordinating committee of the Poor People's Campaign.

Rosalyn Pelles

Raleigh, NC

So I've been an activist probably since I was 13 in the Congress of Racial Equality and over these years.  And so I'm now 69 years old and I have been in the struggle in different ways for all that time and the time now is very different. People are poised to make change in the country, people have been awakened by the conditions and people are ready to act.  And so I see that as a very different place that we're in.  There's also not a mass movement right now, but I see this as the beginning of a mass movement.  And I think that combination of things gives us the possibility of, of long term change that we have not seen in this country before.  And I believe that we are in the best position we've been in to really make the kind of change we're wanting to see happen.