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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

26 Aug, 10 tweets, 9 min read

@LizTheo

"It's 101 years after the passage of the 19th Amendment [which gave women the right to vote]. Today we celebrate this on the day called Women's Equality Day. ... And yet, in 2021, our democracy is in peril!" @LizTheo #PoorPeoplesCampaign #VotingRights #EconomicJustice

@WestVirginiaPPC

So moved by the dedication and determination of servant leaders such as Jean Evansmore @WestVirginiaPPC, who told us today, "I expect to do this the rest of my life!" We are grateful to God for you, Jean. #PoorPeoplesCampaign #ForwardTogether

@WestVirginiaPPC

"We're here today to honor our miners who stood up against their oppressors and said, 'No more!' We deserve a living wage. We deserve health care. We deserve a seat at the table!" -Pam Garrison @WestVirginiaPPC #Blair100 #WhichSideAreYouOn

@Sen_JoeManchin

Thank you to Molly Linehan Belcher, high school teacher & member of the Catholic Committee of Appalachia, for reminding @Sen_JoeManchin: "No Catholic with a good Christian conscience can fail to recognize the rights of all citizens to vote." #PoorPeoplesCampaign

@WestVirginiaPPC

Martec Washington @WestVirginiaPPC told Sen. Manchin today: "You are encouraging poverty!" #DoTheRightThing #EndTheFilibuster

@CommonDefense

June w/ @CommonDefense spoke today in West Virginia in the tradition of the coal miners who fought 100 years ago at Blair Mountain for union rights & a liveable wage. We're out here again fighting nonviolently for living wages, and as June said, "$15 an hour is the bare minimum!"

@MoveOn

Matt Kerner stood with us today in Charleston representing millions of @MoveOn members across the country. He spoke powerfully on the behalf of children: "Every kid that's going to bed hungry tonight is more important than the appearance of the Senate!" #PoorPeoplesCampaign

@BlackVotersMtr

Sen. Manchin, "If you have any decency in yourself, you'll end the filibuster right now! ... Right now's your time to do what's right by the people!" -Dean Anthony with @BlackVotersMtr #PoorPeoplesCampaign #DoTheRightThing #EndTheFilibuster

"Blair Mountain matters!" -Rev. Darick Biondi #PoorPeoplesCampaign #Blair100

"This is still everybody's fight! ... This isn't about fighting each other. This is about fighting FOR each other." -Rev. Caitlin Cotter Coillberg, minister at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Charleston #PoorPeoplesCampaign #BlackLivesMatter #WhichSideAreYouOn

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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

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14 Sep

There’s no national voter ID requirement in the new Senate bill, but there’s a dangerous gateway to legitimizing existing voter ID laws in states.

Why is Manchin using Trumpian language in the “Freedom to Vote Act” to suggest voter ID is OK in order to “restore confidence,” which feeds the lie? Voter ID needs to be taken out.

We fought NC’s voter ID requirement in court and proved it was discriminatory to people of color, women, and the poor, both in intent and in impact. And it was unnecessary, because we already had signature attestation.

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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

@RevDrBarber

14 Sep

@Sen_JoeManchin

.@Sen_JoeManchin, There is no such thing as a "moderate" constitutional position. You didn’t swear to uphold the Constitution "moderately." And you aren’t moderate when it comes to taking corporate money. You are extreme and lavish.

And you aren’t "conservative," b/c you’re not trying to conserve voting rights, conserve the environment, etc. You’re quite liberal when it comes to tax cuts for corporations, when it comes to lying, when it comes to hurting the poor & low-wealth people in your state & nation.

Moderate/conservative Democrats simply means you say you are a Democrat in the primary and support the DNC platform to get elected, and once you are in office, you tell the corporations & greedy rich, "I’m for sale!"

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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

@RevDrBarber

13 Sep

If the revised voting rights bill is truly strong, truly what John Lewis would've wanted, truly what’s needed and not something Manchin has watered down & compromised away to please the US Chamber of Commerce and Republican extremists, then the full movement might support it. ...

But if it's not, those of us in movements that are free to speak the truth, along with seasoned civil rights leaders, voting rights lawyers, and religious leaders will expose it. The attacks in this moment are too real for us to just keep going through the motions.

https://twitter.com/michaelsozan/status/1437503045496102913?s=21

When the details of the bill are read, we will find out if it was compromised down to weakness. There can be no moderate position on voting rights and equal protection under the law!

https://twitter.com/michaelsozan/status/1437503045496102913?s=21

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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

@RevDrBarber

13 Sep

We know Manchin cares about corporations and the greedy rich more than the people. 84% of the COVID plan he voted for with no questions about its price tag went to corporations. But why is he so cautious now, considering the people so in need in his own state?

Is Manchin just the frontman for other corporate Dems who are convinced that only by being Republican-lite can they get elected? None of them who ran in 2020 said they would work against the DNC platform.

Black people, brown people, native people, women, poor and low-wealth people put them in office, and none of them in their primaries said, "If you elect me, I’ll block policies that would help you."

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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

@RevDrBarber

11 Sep

Today, September 11, 2021, marks 3,000 days since June 25, 2013, the day when the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by removing preclearance in the landmark case Shelby County v Holder.

The late Ruth Bader Ginsburg famously wrote in her dissent of that decision, “[T]hrowing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.”

Congress has had 3,000 days now to fix this and restore voting rights protections to millions of Americans, but it has yet to do anything. They don’t even seem to have any sense of urgency about doing it. The infrastructure of our democracy is crumbling and in need of repair!

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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

@RevDrBarber

10 Sep

@WhipClyburn

.@WhipClyburn, We love you as a brother in the faith, but on this you are just wrong. The Build Back Better plan's $3.5 trillion can’t be a ceiling, not if you're really concerned about poor & low-wealth communities.

thehill.com/homenews/house…

@EconomicPolicy

We in the movement also disagree with those who block universal healthcare and want to leave qualified immunity in the George Floyd Bill. According to @EconomicPolicy you should be fighting for more! $3.5 trillion is already a compromise.

epi.org/blog/moral-pol…

I’m sure the 44% of South Carolinians who are poor or low-income—2.1 million residents, including 53% of children (578,000), 47% of women (1.2 million), 61% of POC (1 million), 36% of White people (1.1 million), & over 1 million who make less than $15/hr—disagree w/ you as well.

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