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11 Aug, 4 tweets, 1 min read
.@POTUS, thank you for saying yesterday you're building from the bottom up & middle out. The #PoorPeoplesCampaign supports this infrastructure plan & an even larger one that can reach down to poor & low-wealth communities, so we're glad to hear you say we still have work to do.
Let's protect the infrastructure of our democracy, voting rights, and the infrastructure of our everyday economic lives, which is $15/hr living wage for poor and low-wage workers!
We're also continuing to ask you to meet ASAP with a racially and theologically diverse group of religious leaders and poor and low-wealth leaders to discuss how we must protect the infrastructure of our democracy and economy.
And then go to the well of the Congress and make the moral case for the nation.

Somebody’s stealing our voting rights and living wages, and it’s gone on far too long and we can’t be silent anymore!

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11 Aug
If Black elected officials argue that fighting for things like $15/hr living wage, universal healthcare, the full uncompromised passage of the For The People Act, and fully addressing ecological devastation are "extreme" positions, it's not only wrong ...
It's also an abdication of political power by people who should fight whole-heartedly for those on the margins.
To suggest that refusing to compromise on justice is "extreme"—or that such compromise is necessary to get things done—is the very kind of liberal moderate positioning that heroes of our culture like Dr. King, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and many others denounced.
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9 Aug
The “bipartisan” infrastructure deal couldn’t spare even $1 for housing. But @SenShelby wants to add $50 billion for the Pentagon: $25 billion for Navy shipyards, billions for nuclear labs, and more. That $50 billion could pay for 5.6 million public housing units.
@SenatorWicker (MS) backs $50 billion for the Pentagon. MS alone has 1.5 million poor and low-wealth people. 588,000 workers (53% of the workforce) make under $15/hr, the 2nd highest in the country. $50 billion could create 1 million $15/hr jobs, with benefits.
The Pentagon budget is already $740 billion, highest in the world, higher than at the height of the Vietnam War. But they want $50 billion more. That $50 billion could give health insurance to 14 million poor and low-wealth people – half the uninsured population.
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23 Jul
.@POTUS Biden, I have no doubt you care and desire to do right, but, as a clergy person, let me say pastorally, when you say ending the filibuster will create chaos, that obscures the fact that the filibuster is facilitating chaos.
The filibuster caused chaos with anti-slavery legislation, labor rights, women’s rights, civil rights, voting rights, and it once again is causing policy chaos by allowing a minority to obstruct justice.
The extremists who have taken over the GOP, from Strom Thurmond thru Reagan up to today, believe in trickle-down and "voter fraud" and low wages and breaking unions. Their voting record proves it.
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17 Jul
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.
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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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14 Jul
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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