WATCH: It’s Time For A Third Reconstruction | A #PoorPeoplesCampaign National Town Hall twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
We are already mobilizing toward June 18, 2022, a Mass Poor People’s and Low-Wage Workers Assembly and Moral March on Washington, DC! #ForwardTogether #ThirdReconstruction #3rdReconstruction #MoralMonday

Join us: poorpeoplescampaign.org
“This is a movement that is on the side of love and mercy, but also fierceness.” @RepJayapal #ThirdReconstruction #3rdReconstruction #PoorPeoplesCampaign Rep. Pramila Jayapal
“We cannot return to ‘normal,’ when that meant 140 million people were poor and low-income before the pandemic.” @RepJayapal #ThirdReconstruction #3rdReconstruction #PoorPeoplesCampaign
Learn more and contact your representatives and demand that they support the #ThirdReconstruction Resolution now: breachrepairers.org/third-reconstr…
“We are strong, and we are fierce. Don’t test us!” @RepJayapal #ThirdReconstruction #3rdReconstruction #PoorPeoplesCampaign
This is the season for stateswomen and statesmen. This is not the time for partisanship, because we have an attack on our democracy going on, an attack on the infrastructure of our daily lives (wages & healthcare), and the infrastructure of our roads, bridges, and technology. Rev. Dr. William Barber II, Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, Rep. Pra
As we told @SpeakerPelosi back in August, #HoldTheLine! We need all of this legislation, not just some of it.

“This nation needs to have its conscience stirred and seared. ... What time is it? It’s time for a Third Reconstruction!” @FHunscripted #ThirdReconstruction #3rdReconstruction #PoorPeoplesCampaign Rev. Dr. Freddie Haynes III
We have a powerful panel going on right now! Join us online: breachrepairers.org/livestream #ThirdReconstruction #3rdReconstruction #PoorPeoplesCampaign Panel discussion on Poor People's Campaign livestream
Heidi Shierholz from the @EconomicPolicy Institute making it plain: Raising the federal minimum wage does not create job loss. It’s a myth. We must shift the narrative in this country! Heidi Shierholz with the Economic Policy Institute
“It’s costing our nation too much by having this poverty and low wages!” @LizTheo #PoorPeoplesCampaign #ThirdReconstruction #3rdReconstruction
Dr. Sharrelle Barber @HealthEquityDoc taking a moment for us to pause and reflect on the 700,000+ American lives that have been lost to COVID: “What do we do with those deaths? Many of which were preventable.” #PoorPeoplesCampaign #ThirdReconstruction #3rdReconstruction Dr. Sharrelle Barber from Drexel University
“We are viewing movements such as the #PoorPeoplesCampaign as really the answer to what our nation needs in this moment.” @HealthEquityDoc #ThirdReconstruction #3rdReconstruction
“Immigrant communities have been part of this movement from the beginning. It’s time for the Third Reconstruction!” @FernandoBNHR @Border_Human #PoorPeoplesCampaign #ThirdReconstruction #3rdReconstruction Fernando Garcia from the Border Network for Human Rights
“This campaign is shining a light on the grave threats to our democracy. ... We are in a moment of opportunity to release the ambitions of the Third Reconstruction agenda!” @Caitlin0Swain @Forward_Justice #PoorPeoplesCampaign #ThirdReconstruction #3rdReconstruction Caitlin Swain from Forward Justice
“Your right to vote should not be defined by what state you live in. ... We must expand who American democracy includes in the ‘we’ in ‘We the people.’” @Caitlin0Swain @Forward_Justice #PoorPeoplesCampaign #ThirdReconstruction #3rdReconstruction
“A filibuster cannot stand in the away of the people and an enfranchised America!” @Caitlin0Swain @Forward_Justice #PoorPeoplesCampaign #ThirdReconstruction #3rdReconstruction
Jade Mazon with @IllinoisPPC shared with us about the struggle for environmental justice on the south side of Chicago. #PoorPeoplesCampaign #ThirdReconstruction #3rdReconstruction Jade Mazon with the Illinois Poor People's Campaign
“Mississippi has a long history of punishing the poor and rewarding the wealthy class.” Emilee Johnson @Mississippi_PPC #PoorPeoplesCampaign #ThirdReconstruction #3rdReconstruction Emilee Johnson with the Mississippi Poor People's Campaign
Joan Steede of Arizona: “I have hope that my children and grandchildren will one day be paid the amount that their labor is worth.” #PoorPeoplesCampaign #ThirdReconstruction #3rdReconstruction Joan Steede of Arizona
Dr. Sharrelle Barber @HealthEquityDoc: “Universal healthcare—it just has to be! ... We’ve got to be investing in our public health infrastructure.” #PoorPeoplesCampaign #ThirdReconstruction #3rdReconstruction #BuildBackBetter
Rev. Victoria Parker-Mothershed @NebraskaPPC: “I follow a homeless undocumented immigrant named Jesus. ... How do we as faith leaders address the false moral narrative of Christian nationalism?” #PoorPeoplesCampaign #ThirdReconstruction #3rdReconstruction Rev. Victoria Parker-Mothershed with the Nebraska Poor Peopl
“Jesus engaged in civil disobedience, disrupting structures that devalued human beings! ... We have a responsibility to lift up the real Jesus.” @FHunscripted #PoorPeoplesCampaign #ThirdReconstruction #3rdReconstruction
Ava Bravo @PennsylvaniaPPC, speaking in her original language of Spanish, calls on Congress to include protections for immigrants in the #BuildBackBetter plan. #PoorPeoplesCampaign #ThirdReconstruction #3rdReconstruction Ava Bravo with the Pennsylvania Poor People's Campaign
“In the #PoorPeoplesCampaign, we are seeking justice in our policies and in our budgets.” Ava Bravo @PennsylvaniaPPC #ThirdReconstruction #3rdReconstruction

Join us online now: breachrepairers.org/livestream
“I can imagine a border where instead of building detention centers, we are building welcome centers!” @FernandoBNHR @Border_Human #PoorPeoplesCampaign #ThirdReconstruction #3rdReconstruction Fernando Garcis with the Border Network for Human Rights res
My brother @FernandoBNHR with @Border_Human is so right: it is immoral that we as a nation spend millions of dollars at our U.S./Mexico border to trap women and children. We must and can do better! #PoorPeoplesCampaign #ThirdReconstruction #3rdReconstruction
“The federal poverty measure hasn’t been updated in more than half a century!” Jasmine Krotkov with the Montana #PoorPeoplesCampaign #ThirdReconstruction #3rdReconstruction Jasmine Krotkov with the Montana Poor People's Campaign
.@HShierholz @EconomicPolicy making the strong argument now against work requirements to qualify for federal benefits like the child tax credit. Why should support for keeping children out of poverty be held hostage to their parents’ ability to find a job?
“We’re facing an eviction crisis like nothing we’ve seen before as a nation. ... How do we ensure that housing is a human right, instead of just a private commodity?” Marcy Makinen @MainePPCampaign #PoorPeoplesCampaign #ThirdReconstruction #3rdReconstruction Marcy Makinen with the Maine Poor People's Campaign
.@Caitlin0Swain @Forward_Justice is right: the American people, especially poor and low-income people, are brilliant and have the answers to many of the questions and problems this country faces, if only we as a nation, would listen! #PoorPeoplesCampaign #ThirdReconstruction Caitlin Swain from Forward Justice answers a question
“How can we awaken this ‘sleeping giant’ of poor and low-income voters?” Kaylen Barker @WestVirginiaPPC #PoorPeoplesCampaign #ThirdReconstruction #3rdReconstruction Kaylen Barker with the West Virginia Poor People's Campaign
.@Caitlin0Swain reminding us now that we have a narrow window of time to protect the infrastructure of our democracy. Now is the time! We can do all of it. We must do all of it. #HoldTheLine
Rev. Dr. @LizTheo reminding us we must lift from the bottom so that everyone can rise! #PoorPeoplesCampaign #ThirdReconstruction #3rdReconstruction Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis with the Kairos Center and co-chair o
.@RepBarbaraLee speaking now via pre-recorded video: “It’s time for us to create a Third Reconstruction! ... It is unforgivable that 250,000 people die each year from poverty and low-wealth alone.” #PoorPeoplesCampaign #ThirdReconstruction #3rdReconstruction
“We stand at a tipping point. We must seize this moment!” @RepBarbaraLee #PoorPeoplesCampaign #ThirdReconstruction #3rdReconstruction
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20 Oct
“Moderate” Democrats say the more money cut from the BBB plan, the more people left out, the more people that don’t get Medicare or free community college or $15/hr living wage, WE ARE MAKING PROGRESS?
It makes me think about how the so-called “moderate” position in politics is often a polite euphemism for inaction. Remember what Dr. King wrote from the Birmingham jail: “I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate.
“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice;
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15 Oct
Poor and low-income people accounted for more than a third of all voters overall in the 2020 presidential election, and their turnout was especially strong in tight battleground states, according to a study @UniteThePoor released today.

breachrepairers.org/press-releases…
The study, titled “Waking the Sleeping Giant: Low-Income Voters and the 2020 Elections” also shows that of the 168 million people who voted in 2020, 59 million — 35% — were poor or low-income, meaning they have an estimated annual income of less than $50,000.
The 2020 presidential elections saw the highest voter turnout in U.S. election history, including among low-income voters.
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12 Oct
WATCH: Essential, Low-wage Workers Come to DC to Put Face on Build Back Better Plan #PoorPeoplesCampaign twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
“We must lift from the bottom with this Build Back Better Plan, so that everybody can rise!” -Rev. Dr. @liztheo, co-chair of the #PoorPeopleCampaign Image
“We hope that the Biden administration does not cower to the whims of a couple of senators!” @liztheo #PoorPeoplesCampaign
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12 Oct
As Congress argues about the cost of the BBB plan, the #PoorPeoplesCampaign meets today w/ U.S. House & White House representatives, then holds a news conference at 9:30am ET to say the fight should focus on the ppl whose lives depend on passing this plan. breachrepairers.org/livestream
Faith leaders and economists will stand with essential, low-wage women representing the 140 million people who were poor or low-income before COVID-19 at a news conference at 9:30 a.m. ET on the House side of the U.S. Capitol.
Before the news conference, the delegation is meeting with members of Congress and staffers, along with Josh Dickson and Carissa Joy Smith, senior advisers from the White House Office of Public Engagement.
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8 Oct
Manchin is so slick, he is silly. Paying people a living wage, providing health care, education, and childcare for working low-wage mothers is not “entitlement.” It’s justice. It’s promoting the general welfare. It’s acting like Jesus.

And how much time does Manchin want? How about as much time as it took for him to block living wages—about five minutes?

I wish reporters would push him and expose the faces and livelihoods that would be hurt by his cuts.
Stop talking about $3.7 trillion or $2 trillion. $3.7T over 10 years is not a large number at all. What is huge is the number of Americans who will be hurt even more after being devastated already by COVID.
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6 Oct
I wish someone would tell this brother the truth about the Freedom To Vote Act that Manchin is trying to push: All of the good parts are from John Lewis. The bad parts that we have to amend are from the Republican voter suppressionists.

Secondly, Manchin hasn’t done a thing, because he won’t end the filibuster to pass it.

And he’s blocking the Build Back Better plan in ways that are going to hurt Black people—your congregants—& other poor & low-wealth people around the country but especially in West Virginia.
Black preachers, don’t let this man use you. He’s been meeting with you, lying to you. Ask him to meet you with people in the room who know policy. I bet he won’t do it.

West Virginia preachers, don’t be fooled and don’t sell your birthright.
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