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17 Jul, 6 tweets, 3 min read
The #PoorPeoplesCampaign Women’s Moral March on Washington & Nonviolent Direct Action is this #MoralMonday July 19, at 11am ET, beginning at the U.S. Supreme Court. Image
TX Democratic legislators had to leave the state to lift the nation. They are lifting the need for full For the People Act, full Voting Rights Advancement Act, full $15 minimum wage & end of the non-constitutional filibuster.
But if they had to leave TX, some of us must go there. This is why the TX PPC, other groups, @fhunscripted, @BishopJDixon, other orgs & many poor & low wealth impacted people using Covid protocols are going to march from Georgetown, TX to Austin July 27-31.
We will hold a national online press conference on Wed, July 21 to announce details. This is our Selma moment & we demand action from the US Senate to protect the possibilities of this democracy & challenge those who would accept autocracy.
We are saying to @Sen_JoeManchin, @SenatorSinema, @SenSchumer & @POTUS: use your power now & refuse to succumb to the manipulations of the US Chamber of Commerce & the extremists who’ve hijacked Republican Party.
If any Republican Senator claims to be a person of faith, it’s time to stand up & declare that lying, filibustering justice, suppressing the vote & blocking living wages are sin. They are denounced by the very Bible you used to swear to uphold the Constitution.

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17 Jul
An increased $3.7 trillion infrastructure bill that begins to lift more from the bottom is a strong step. More is needed, but this is the result of activism, @USProgressives & a President who’s concerned about those at the bottom.
Let’s do the same with protecting the infrastructure of our democracy & end the filibuster, pass the For the People Act, the Voting Rights Restoration Act & $15/hr. I want to remind Democrats of some history…
FDR passed major legislations for the New Deal, but to do it he chose not to address civil rights, voting rights & discrimination. For instance, agricultural workers could not pay into Social Security which excluded 50% of women & a majority of Black people for more than 19 yrs.
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Mr. President, Madam VP, Mr. Majority Leader, Sen. Manchin & Sen. Sinema: To repair the breaches being created in the infrastructure of our democracy, you must fight for all 4 of these:
END the filibuster
PASS the full For The People Act
FULLY restore the Voting Rights Act &
RAISE the minimum wage to $15/hour
We need a big, bold, comprehensive infrastructure bill that lifts from the bottom up, and we need this political infrastructure secured now & every effort must be used to break the filibuster & pass the full For The People Act, the full Voting Rights Act, & $15/hr minimum wage.
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10 Jul
After we launch a season of nonviolent moral direct action in DC on #MoralMonday July 12, I’m accepting an invitation to join @Texas_PPC, @MsLaToshaBrown, @fhunscripted, @betoorourke & others fighting voter suppression on the ground in Texas.
Mr. President & Madam Vice President, come to these states. Meet w/ poor & low-wealth Black, white, brown, native, Asian people in the streets & hear from them, activists, & moral leaders. We will work w/ you to pull that meeting together.
The people directly impacted by extremism are the heartbeat of the resistance & moral courage. These struggles are our Selma!
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8 Jul
In case you hadn't heard ... This is so ineffably sad.

Darnella Frazier, the extraordinary young woman who filmed the entire 9 minutes & 29 seconds of George Floyd's murder, now has to face the killing of her uncle by another police officer.

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This is just too much. My young sister, you are the real Shero of the entire movement. There would have been no trial, no George Floyd Bill, without your courageous video. God used you. I’m so sorry to hear about your uncle. If we can help in anyway, please let me know.
I’m writing letters to all three of my alma maters, telling each of them to offer you a full scholarship from undergraduate all the way through to your PhD or law degree, if it is your desire. I hope this small act will in some way speak to the great concern we have for you.
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Donald Rumsfeld died, but did you know he was appointed by Nixon to defund and dismantle the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO)? His office was created in August 1964 by the Economic Opportunity Act.

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The OEO was part of Pres. Johnson's social & economic initiatives known as the "Great Society" & the "War on Poverty." The OEO was part of the exec office of the Johnson admin & its first director was R. Sargent Shriver, who was involved in drafting the Economic Opportunity Act.
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2 Jul
Often in America, extremists in the majority of the Supreme Court have been the source of the nation sliding backwards rather than moving forward. Dred Scott. Plessy vs. Ferguson.
On June 25, 2013 and July 1, 2021, we saw them gut Section 5 of the VRA and weaken Section 2, allowing retrogression and sliding backwards.

We must remember the faith of Frederick Douglass in the face of Dred Scott:
"Such a decision cannot stand. God will be true though every man be a liar. We can appeal from this hell black judgment of the Supreme Court, to the court of common sense and common humanity. We can appeal from man to God.
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