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20 Sep, 17 tweets, 9 min read
WATCH: Moral Monday Press Conference | Which Side Are You On Senator Manchin? #PoorPeoplesCampaign twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Sen. Manchin is on the wrong side of poor and low-wealth people in his state and in the country.

Today we’re launching a national call-in to flood his phone lines today and all this week!

action.poorpeoplescampaign.org

#PoorPeoplesCampaign #MoralMonday
The filibuster has been used in bad ways, and for Sen. Manchin to continue to use it is wrong.

Nothing was wrong with the For The People Act, which the late Rep. John Lewis actually wrote. We don’t need Manchin’s “Freedom to Vote Act.” Voting is a right, not a freedom.
Manchin is wrong to say that we’ve done enough and that the spending bill needs to be less than $3.5 trillion over 10 years. $3.5 trillion is already a compromise.
Manchin needs to stop playing games and hiding behind a coward’s filibuster. Poor and low-wealth people can’t afford for him to waste anymore time on games!

Join us in calling Sen. Manchin now to demand he take action: action.poorpeoplescampaign.org Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II speaking via Zoom in an online
We’re saying to Sen. Manchin: It’s not too late for you to do the right thing!

But if you don’t choose the people over the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Koch Brothers and Exxon, we will engage in nonviolent moral direct action.
We’re saying to President Biden: It’s time for a moral reset!

We should not be arguing about numbers in a budget. We should be talking about what is in these bills and who will be lifted out of poverty if they are enacted — and who is being hurt every day they are delayed!
Rev. Dr. @LizTheo speaking now: Sen. Joe Manchin is blocking the very agenda that Democrats campaigned on in 2020 and allowed them to win majorities in the House, the Senate, and the White House. Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, co-chair of the Poor People's Campai
.@LizTheo: Manchin is ignoring the urgency of now. He’s suggesting putting bandaids on deep, gaping social and economic wounds. His suggestion that we should wait and “pause” is anathema to us in the #PoorPeoplesCampaign. It’s unbiblical and unconstitutional.
Jean Evansmore with @WestVirginiaPPC speaking truth to Sen. Manchin: I think you don’t want Rep. John Lewis’s name on the voting rights bill. You want your name on the bill instead!

Stand with Jean by calling Sen. Manchin’s office right now: action.poorpeoplescampaign.org Jean Evansmore, tri-chair of the West Virginia Poor People's
Pam Garrison with the @WestVirginiaPPC to Sen. Manchin: “You’re trying to lay on us an $11/hour minimum wage. Well, you’re 25 years too late!”

#PoorPeoplesCampaign #MoralMonday #RaiseTheWage #FightFor15 Pam Garrison, tri-chair of the West Virginia Poor People's C
“America, flood Manchin’s phone lines! Stand with us!” -Pam Garrison @WestVirginiaPPC

Call Manchin now: action.poorpeoplescampaign.org

#PoorPeoplesCampaign #MoralMonday
Young people are leaving West Virginia in large numbers, because jobs in the state do not pay enough for them to afford to stay there.

Pastor Lipscomb @WestVirginiaPPC is calling on Sen. Manchin to raise the federal minimum wage to a living wage of at least $15/hr. Pastor Lipscomb with West Virginia Poor People's Campaign.
Molly Linehan, a Catholic school teacher and member of the Catholic Committee of Appalachia, is calling on her fellow Catholic, Sen. Joe Manchin, to stop delaying and pass voting rights protections now!

Call Manchin Now: action.poorpeoplescampaign.org Molly Linehan, a Catholic school teacher and member of the C
What Manchin is doing is actually dangerous to the poor and low-income people in his state and across the country who are suffering each and every day!
Two senators, Manchin and Sinema, should not be able to block the entire agenda. We need the Black Caucus and the Progressive Caucus to #HoldTheLine and refuse to pass infrastructure without voting rights, living wages, etc.
Stand with the @WestVirginiaPPC now and call Sen. Joe Manchin and demand that he end the coward’s filibuster and vote for voting rights protections, living wages of at least $15/hr, infrastructure, spending, etc.

Call now: action.poorpeoplescampaign.org

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.@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.
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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.
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!
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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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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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