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23 Sep, 4 tweets, 2 min read
While we are waiting for a response from the White House, please pray for me. As a representative from the #PoorPeoplesCampaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, I’ve been invited by the Vatican to join other moral religious leaders at a poverty-focused conference,
hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences on October 3-4. I am honored to be delivering a talk on “Coalition-building and bridging religious communities for poverty mitigation.”

pass.va/content/scienz…
In his most recent encyclical, @Pontifex wrote that the “magic theories” of market capitalism, trickle-down economics, and neo-liberalism have failed and that the world needs a new type of politics that “promotes dialogue and solidarity and rejects war at all costs.”
Pope Francis agrees with the poor people of this nation: we need a moral revolution of values.

religionnews.com/2021/09/23/aft…

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This is a sad moment in America. The issue is not who will back down, moderates or progressives? The question is: Do we truly love and care for the 140 million poor and low-wealth people in this country?
Do we care about workers who need living wages, the sick who need healthcare, the children who need education?

The first question should not be how much can we afford to spend? We have the money. We spent $21 trillion in war since 9/11.
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Sen. Manchin is on the wrong side of poor and low-wealth people in his state and in the country.

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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.
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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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.@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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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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