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1 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Living wages are not an “entitlement.” Housing & health care are not “entitlements.” Taking care of climate is not “entitlement.” These are all human rights.

.@Sen_JoeManchin, You claim to be a person of faith. Have you ever even read your Bible? Have you read the Constitution? Promoting the general welfare is not an “entitlement.” Establishing justice is not an “entitlement.”
That entitlement language is from the racist southern strategy. You seem to believe in entitlement as long as it’s for corporations, the greedy rich, your friends, and your own pockets.
What you don’t seem to believe in is lifting the poor & low-wealth people of your own state, 750,000 people, 92% of which are white. So stop using the race language of entitlement while you are hurting poor and low-wealth white people in your own state!

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In June 2020, 2.7 million people tuned in to our Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers Assembly. Next year, we will invite all of them to join us on June 18 in person to Washington, DC.
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I agree w/ @JulianCastro: “The continued use of Title 42 is a glaring failure by this administration. Its continued use will not only hurt people who are seeking a better life, but risks the collapse of the Democratic coalition that elected Joe Biden.” But here is my concern:
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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,
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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.”
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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?

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WATCH: Moral Monday Press Conference | Which Side Are You On Senator Manchin? #PoorPeoplesCampaign twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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Today we’re launching a national call-in to flood his phone lines today and all this week!

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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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