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WATCH: Day 3 of the Harpers Ferry-to-Martinsburg #MoralMarch on West Virginia. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
“God, you’ve heard the cries of pain of moms whose children are having asthma attacks, because of pollution.” —Rev. Dr. @LizTheo
🎶 Woke up this morning with my mind stayed on freedom 🎶
#MoralMarch on West Virginia @WestVirginiaPPC
#MoralMarch on West Virginia @WestVirginiaPPC
We’re LIVE from outside the Rockwool plant in Kearnersville, WV. #MoralMarch
This toxic polluting plant is just a stone’s throw from an elementary school, because in WV it’s illegal to put a school next to a plant but not the other way around! (Photo: @StevePavey) 
🎶 Somebody’s been hurting our children and our planet and it’s gone on far too long, and we won’t be silent anymore 🎶
#MoralMarch
#MoralMarch
Join us online now for the launch of the Harper’s Ferry-to-Martinsburg #MoralMarch on West Virginia!
WATCH LIVE:
WATCH LIVE:
We opened this morning in Harpers Ferry with a prayer from two local West Virginia faith leaders: “Creator, how grateful we are to stand here on holy ground. ... Together we ask for a new birth of freedom, a just share of the wealth of this land for all.”
(Photo: @stevepavey)
(Photo: @stevepavey)
Katrina Fernandez stood with us—and six of her children—today to say: “I’m concerned that my children are being poisoned by a factory that’s allowed to just let chemicals go in the air. ... We can’t take any more stuff in our bodies.” #PoorPeoplesCampaign
(Photos: @stevepavey)
(Photos: @stevepavey)
WATCH: Calling The Nation to a Meeting NOW - March and Dedication twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
June 18 will be not a day but a declaration and not an end but a continuation. #MeetUsInDC
RSVP now: poorpeoplescampaign.org/june18?source=…
RSVP now: poorpeoplescampaign.org/june18?source=…
We must assemble here in the nation’s capitol and have a meeting! #MeetUsInDC on Saturday, June 18.
(Photo: @stevepavey)
(Photo: @stevepavey)
SPECIAL REPORT: The Poor People’s Campaign releases “The Poor People’s Pandemic Report,” a generationally significant report that uncovers things that will shock the nation’s conscience and the political establishment. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
54 years ago, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered as he begged this nation to address poverty, racism, and militarism. It is shameful that today we have 140 million poor and low-wealth people in this nation.
Even in a global pandemic, there hasn’t been a systematic assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on poor and low-income communities. COVID-19 data collection does not include data on poverty, income, or occupation, alongside race and pandemic outcomes.
WATCH: Bishop Barber & the #PoorPeoplesCampaign join Selma-to-Montgomery March | Fight for the Vote Rally twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
“I’d rather my voice be hoarse from marching in the rain two days ago than have a clear voice from saying nothing.” @RevJJackson Amen #FightForTheVote #PoorPeoplesCampaign
Powerful words from Alabama’s first Black woman poet laureate, Ashley M. Jones @ashberry813. #FightForTheVote #PoorPeoplesCampaign
On Sunday in #Selma, I spoke on behalf of Elliott Smith, the great-nephew of Amelia Boynton, to remind the nation that Selma was not a day but a declaration: Our deadline is victory! #Selma57 #PoorPeoplesCampaign
Selma was not just about voting rights either. Rev. Dr. King linked the fight for voting rights and the fight for economic justice. We can’t talk about one without talking about the other.
When 140 million Americans were either poor or one emergency away from poverty before COVID, when we have less voting rights today than in 1965, & we’ve seen nearly 1 million deaths from COVID, many needlessly, we shouldn’t need anything else to tell us we need a movement!
WATCH: Bishop Barber Joins Memphis 7 | We Shall Overcome Starbucks Union Busting! #PoorPeoplesCampaign twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Working at the Tennessee 2018 state minimum wage, it takes 94 hours of work per week to afford a 2-bedroom apartment.
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Religious leaders in Memphis, if you’re not standing with these Starbucks workers in this moment, it makes your faith terribly suspect. #WhyWeOrganize #PoorPeoplesCampaign
Live now: facebook.com/sbworkersunite…
Organizing for the right to have a union and fight for economic justice goes hand-in-hand with the fight for the right to vote. The two should never be separated.
Bishop Barber, NC PPC News Conference | Fight for the Right to the Ballot & Freedom of Expression & Road Ahead to Victory twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
“On April 2, we will join the Moral March here in Raleigh, which will propel us into June 18 [in D.C.].” —Ana Blackburn @NC_PPC
RSVP: poorpeoplescampaign.org/june18/
#PoorPeoplesCampaign #MoralMarch #ToThePolls
RSVP: poorpeoplescampaign.org/june18/
#PoorPeoplesCampaign #MoralMarch #ToThePolls
The gathering in Raleigh, NC, on Saturday, April 2, will include North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia mobilizing to June 18 in Washington, D.C. #PoorPeoplesCampaign #MoralMarch #ToThePolls
WATCH: #MoralMonday June 18 Mobilization Tour Launch | AL, FL, GA, MS, & TN #PoorPeoplesCampaign twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
“Justice is what love looks like in public.” -Dr. @CornelWest
“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.” ―Zora Neale Hurston
WATCH: Bishop William J. Barber II sermon “When Wise Black Men Show Us How to Walk Through This World” #WorshipCelebration twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
If you wish to make an offering/donation, you can do that online on the Greenleaf Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) website: greenleafchristiandoc.org/donate
Remembering Cain Hope Felder by @NyashaJunior @ReligPolitics from 2019:
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Yesterday the NC Supreme Court honored the powerful protections in the NC Constitution—a Reconstruction Constitution forged by a historic, fusion, multi-racial government—that makes the right to vote a fundamental one in the state of North Carolina.
It is protected here by the Equal Protection Clause, the Free Elections Clause, the Free Speech Clause, and the Freedom of Assembly Clause of the NC Constitution. The court found that the maps passed by the NCGA violated all of those provisions
and are “unconstitutional beyond a reasonable doubt” under NC law. The NC Supreme Court made history in finding partisan gerrymandering was recognized under the NC Constitution as unconstitutional,
The fight against racist police violence is not and never has been a denunciation of all police. Standing against violence and murder of police does not mean a person doesn’t support the efforts to reform racist police violence. Both things can be true at the same time.
I pastor a church with former police officers in it, and we support the efforts of police to secure the community. These same police officers denounce those who wear the uniform when they commit racist violence and murder against Black, brown, native, and poor white people.
If a police officer refuses to do their job, because one of their colleagues is prosecuted for murdering innocent people, or a police officer says their morale suffered, because they’re trained in reform that is long overdue to weed out bad actors or system flaws within policing,
WATCH: Protect Voting Rights & Pass Build Back Better Now | #PoorPeoplesCampaign Press Conference twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Join us in Washington, D.C., on June 18 for the Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly & #MoralMarch on Washington & #ToThePolls! Learn more and RSVP online now to let us know you are coming: poorpeoplescampaign.org/june18 #PoorPeoplesCampaign
Congress ratified the 15th Amendment on Feb. 3, 1870, but states used poll taxes, literacy tests, and other ways to block its implementation and abridge the right to vote. Now senators are refusing to take action and stop new voter suppression laws.
