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WATCH: Mississippi Moral Monday Wave 2 | Poor People's Campaign twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Somebody has been hurting our people and it’s gone on far too long.
Somebody is poisoning our water and it’s gone on far too long.
& We won’t be silent anymore!
Somebody is poisoning our water and it’s gone on far too long.
& We won’t be silent anymore!
There are forces that have never wanted this city to be run by a strong black, brown, white coalition that cared about all the people!
NEW: Jackson businesses that have suffered losses amid the Mississippi capital city’s ongoing water crisis will now be able to apply for as much as $2 million in federal Economic Injury Disaster Loans, Gov. Tate Reeves announced.
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SBA Economic Injury Disaster Loans can provide Jackson businesses with up to $2 million “help meet financial obligations and operating expenses that could have been met had the disaster not occurred" based on "actual economic injury."
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See the Mississippi Free Press’ full Jackson water-crisis coverage, starting in March 2021.
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WATCH: Mississippi Moral Monday Nationwide Speak Out twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
This is a water emergency and a moral emergency. This is fixable, there is not a lack of funds, there is a lack of moral concious and political action. #JacksonWaterCrisis
Clean water is a human right! What the citizens of Jackson are experiencing is the direct result of policy violence. This does not have to be. #JacksonWaterCrisis 
WATCH: Mississippi Moral Monday Nationwide Speak Out twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Poisoning of water is immoral!
Poisoning someone’s water is sin!
Poisoning someone’s water is sin!
🚨🚨THREAD: Just like what happened in Flint, around now—about a week of major coverage—is when national media will stop covering the #JacksonWaterCrisis & begin lazily regurgitating cherry-picked/manipulated water data and PR coming from the state govt that caused the crisis...
They will move from broadcast/digital coverage to occasional news article updates--which will become less & less frequent until the story is completely out of the news. The void of news, interviews w/ residents, or investigative reporting into...
1) who caused the crisis
2) who and what entities have profited
3) who is covering it up
4) The ongoing racism behind it
5) Disastrous health affects on residents...
2) who and what entities have profited
3) who is covering it up
4) The ongoing racism behind it
5) Disastrous health affects on residents...
🧵With the full expectation mainstream media will soon move on from #JacksonWaterCrisis—like they did for ONGOING #FlintWaterCrisis—here's list of other cities across U.S. w/ serious water quality issues
🚨Detroit
🚨Chicago
🚨Milwaukee
🚨Pittsburgh
🚨Newark
🚨Wilmington NC
🚨Detroit
🚨Chicago
🚨Milwaukee
🚨Pittsburgh
🚨Newark
🚨Wilmington NC
🚨Philadelphia
🚨Denmark SC
🚨Benton Harbor MI
🚨 Gadsden AL
🚨 MULTIPLE cities/towns in Texas
🚨MULTIPLE cities/towns in California
🚨Denmark SC
🚨Benton Harbor MI
🚨 Gadsden AL
🚨 MULTIPLE cities/towns in Texas
🚨MULTIPLE cities/towns in California
These are just SOME of the cities/towns with problems ranging from lead, bacteria, PFAS (cancer causing byproduct of the manufacturing of TEFLON), fracking fluid, toxic herbicides, arsenic, and more. National and local media mostly ignore while local water utilities cheat on...
