Getting ready to go live on @Morning_Joe from El Paso, Texas, where we are taking #MoralMonday at the Borderlands today. Tune In now to @MSNBC
We visited the refugee camps yesterday, which were in terrible conditions. Last night we had a mass meeting with hundreds in attendance and thousands watching online.
Today we are going straight to detention facility to demand they let us in to see the people reported on hunger strikes. #MoralMonday
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In a unified act of solidarity, @GovBillLee joined governors of the former slaveholding states Texas, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Alabama to make a joint statement this week against the @UAW's efforts to unionize autoworkers in the South.
Calling the union a “special interest,” the governors claimed that unions threaten not only good jobs, but also the “values we live by.”
As a preacher from the South, I am tired of politicians trying to co-opt faith with talk about “values” when they do not have the facts to back up their claims.
The truth is that workers are building power in the South and politicians who’ve made immoral partnerships with corporate interests are feeling the heat.
It’s past time for all God’s people to stand up for living wages and union rights.
We're in North Carolina with the @NC_PPC for the final tour stop on the Moral March to the Polls Tour. We are calling on state governments to enact a #ThirdReconstruction agenda, that’s not about left versus right politics, but about what’s right versus what’s wrong.
@NC_PPC In North Carolina, there are 3.5 million poor and low-wealth eligible voters. If we mobilize and organize together, we have the power to change voting outcomes in every election in our state.
@NC_PPC We cannot be silent while politicians prioritize corporate interests over the needs of the poor. From Asheville to Charlotte and Wilmington to Raleigh, we must demand change and fight for a North Carolina and a country that works for all.
Last night, I lent my voice to a multi-faith vigil in front of the White House, calling for a ceasefire to stop the indiscriminate killing.
People from Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions around the world are coming together to cry for peace. 1/4
Some say cease-fire, some say a “cessation of hostilities,” some say humanitarian pause. Some just say, “Stop for the babies!” But the world is experiencing a kind of Pentecost as people cry out in different tongues with a unified call to end the violence. 2/4
We believe that every human being is created in the image of God. Both the Talmud and Islamic teaching say that to save a single life is to save all humanity, and Jesus extends the law of love for kin and neighbors, even to those who are our enemies. 3/4
All over the world, I have seen & joined Muslims, Jews, Christians, & people of conscience nonviolently saying we must stop the killing, end the indiscriminate bombing, end the violence of apartheid, resist the lure of revenge, & study war no more.
After Oct 7, I saw many Jews, Muslims, & Christians denounce the violent terrorist acts of Hamas against innocent civilians, including women & children.
This week I’ve watched Jews, Muslims, & Christian stand together to call for a ceasefire, a humanitarian pause, or, in the language of one old church mother, “JUST STOP, STOP, STOP!”
Poverty is a policy choice, reflecting low wages, the high costs of living and the unwillingness of politicians to act. 1/4
In Mississipi, there were 1.3 million poor and low-income people, accounting for 46% of the population. 2/4
A MS household w/ 2 adults and 2 children needs to earn over $21/hour. Yet the current minimum wage is a shameful $7.25/hour. That means a person must work 86 hours/week to afford a two bedroom apartment! 3/4
We have hateful rhetoric coming out of the mouths of politicians in Florida from the highest levels every day. From the governor to the former president, it is hate against Black history, hate against wokeness, hate against trans people, hate against immigrants. 1/7
Words of hate create an ethos of hate, an atmosphere of hate, a political, social petri dish of hate and eventually spoken words become deeds. 2/7
The shooter first went to a historically Black university. 3/7