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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II Profile picture
@RevDrBarber
Sep 19, 2020 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
We cannot be silent in the face of McConnell’s hypocritical plan to replace RBG & immoral refusal to pass a just stimulus.
@UniteThePoor @Kentucky_PPC & @WashingtonDCPPC are staging #MoralMonday protest caravans & a national call-in on Mitch McConnell at all of his offices this Monday 9/21!
We must challenge McConnell’s political meanness, mayhem, & immorality, which has caused so much misery.

We must nonviolently protest, fight back, & vote like never before!

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Oct 27
In the Bible, Joshua says, “Choose ye this day...” Howard Zinn said, “You can’t be neutral on a moving train.”

Right now, we face a choice.

I joined 1,000 clergy to endorse VP Harris in our personal capacity. I hope other faith leaders will do the same. cnn.com/2024/10/27/pol…
My full statement:

In my role as both a bishop of the church and a leader of a non partisan movement, I maintain a position of not endorsing any candidate for public office. But as the law allows, I reserve the right in my private capacity to endorse candidates openly.
This has become a moment when I feel compelled to exercise that right, and I hope others will too. I sense a call to speak as a private citizen about my own personal struggle to live faithfully in the present political moment.
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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II Profile picture
Jul 30
Dems, we love your use of “weird” to describe Trump & Vance. But when there are 140 million poor & low wage ppl struggling to make it in this country, it’s also weird to not speak to them.
Yes, it’s weird for Trump & Vance to call policies that would reduce poverty “communism.” But it’s also weird for Dems to not say “poor” if they want poor people to support their agenda.
When 800 ppl are dying from poverty in the richest nation in the history of the world, it’s weird to not make a big deal about it.

It’s weird to have a Zoom call for every group except the 1/3 of the electorate that’s poor.
Read 5 tweets
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II Profile picture
Jun 14
For years, we’ve been fed a pernicious myth that poverty is only an issue for Black people. This myth not only demeans Black people – with racist images of Black mothers on welfare dominating the imaginations of so many Americans – but also obscures the poverty of tens of millions of white people.
When you frame it as being poor people are Black, other folks are working, what you're doing is dismissing millions of poor and low-wage white people.
This form of mythology is designed to keep Black and white people from working together who really are allies and unified when it comes to the experience of poverty in this country.
Read 11 tweets
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Apr 18
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.
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Feb 25
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.
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Nov 21, 2023
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
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