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4 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Back in February, faith leaders & poor & low-wage people, Black and white from West Virginia’s Poor People’s Campaign met w/ Manchin. He talked a good talk, but he refused to say he’d support living wages, voting rights & end the filibuster.

religionnews.com/2021/02/18/poo…
I'm glad @DerrickNAACP is having a mtg w/ Manchin. Soon everyone will have met the criteria for nonviolent direct action, & we can perhaps unify & put street pressure on Manchin & Sinema to do what they don't yet want to do.
That’s how we got the voting rights & union rights we have now in the first place. What makes anybody think we won’t have to do the same things to keep these rights & expand these rights today?
Manchin has suggested that he might support the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act but not the For The People Act. We must say, no, @Sen_JoeManchin, our democracy needs both, not either/or.

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.@CapehartJ is right. We need to stop acting as if the Republican Party just got messed up with Trump. What we see now the @GOP has been building for over 50 years, and they know in America hate has a history of working.
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If we want corporations to step up, every civil rights organization that has received donations from corporations must now ask the same corporations, "Are you supporting the U.S. Senators who have blocked restoration of the Voting Rights Act for over 7 years and 9 months?
Have you given to ALEC, the group that is promoting voter suppression bills in state houses across the U.S.?”

breachrepairers.org/blogs/if-we-ar…
If corporations speak out against voting laws and give social contributions to civil rights organizations but still invest in the Senators who are blocking the restoration of federal voting rights protections, then their public statements are just image management.
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In North Carolina, it took several years for us to unionize the Smithfield plant, the world's largest hog processing plant. Like them, the Bessemer workers will eventually win the vote.
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