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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II Profile picture
@RevDrBarber
Oct 21, 2021 • 29 tweets • 21 min read • Read on X
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Join us online tonight at 7pm ET for “Soundtrack of the Struggle: Using Music to Build the Moral Fusion Movement”! #MoralMovement #ForwardTogether

Watch: breachrepairers.org/livestream
“In order to seize the day, we need what the Kerner Commission called ‘new will’ from the American people.” —Dr. Alan Curtis #PoorPeoplesCampaign #ThirdReconstruction #SoundtrackoftheStruggle Dr. Alan Curtis, president and CEO of the Milton S. Eisenhow
Thank you to the @MellonFdn and Dr. Alan Curtis and the Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation for their support of tonight’s #SoundtrackoftheStruggle livestream event.

Join us online now: breachrepairers.org/livestream LaMonique Hamilton, deputy director of communications at Rep
There has never been a moral movement that did not have a rhythm or music. Sometimes the pain is so great, you have to sing it before you can say it.
In the #PoorPeoplesCampaign, we have many battle hymns: “Everybody’s Got a Right to Live.” “Make Them Hear You.” “Hold On Just a Little While Longer.” #SoundtrackoftheStruggle Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
“You can see how we have come together through and with song. ... Folks are united in our message and in this battle hymn.” @LizTheo #PoorPeoplesCampaign #SoundtrackoftheStruggle Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis
“I can find nothing that has united us in this movement like the song and the songs.” @LizTheo #PoorPeoplesCampaign #SoundtrackoftheStruggle
🎶 I am not afraid
I am not afraid
I will die for liberation
’cause I know why I was made 🎶

#PoorPeoplesCampaign
#SoundtrackoftheStruggle
“We make sure that the music is always in sync with the message of the movement.” theomusicologist @BRepairers @allen_yara #PoorPeoplesCampaign #SoundtrackoftheStruggle Yara Allen, director of cultural arts, Repairers of the Brea
“Where these songs come from is from these struggles. ... All of us have to lift our voices ... to create ‘one band and one sound.’” theomusicologist @Kairos_Center @CharonHribar #PoorPeoplesCampaign #SoundtrackoftheStruggle Charon Hribar, director of cultural strategies at the Kairos
🎶 The US Postal Service
direly needs a helping hand 🎶
@JoeTroopMusic

#PoorPeoplesCampaign
#SoundtrackoftheStruggle Joe Troop
Spirit — to inspire means to literally put spirit in them, to put courage in them.
We wouldn’t have even heard “I Have a Dream” if not for Mahalia Jackson. She knew that Dr. King needed to preach that word on that day. #PoorPeoplesCampaign #SoundtrackoftheStruggle Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
🎶 Up over my head
I see justice in the air
Up over my head
I see justice in the air
And I really do believe,
I said I really do believe
that change is coming out there 🎶

#PoorPeoplesCampaign
#SoundtrackoftheStruggle
Jon Michael Spencer is the professor who came up with the term “theomusicology.” I heard him speak at Duke University. A theomusicologist can’t just be a good singer. They have to be a part of the movement. They have to have the “anointing,” if you will.
🎶 Somebody’s hurting my brother
and it’s gone on far too long
And we won’t be silent anymore
Somebody’s hurting my sister
and it’s gone on far too long
And we won’t be silent anymore 🎶

—original song by @allen_yara

#PoorPeoplesCampaign
#SoundtrackoftheStruggle
There are some moments where there can be no talking, only a song.
As we begin to talk about a #ThirdReconstruction, @IAmLaMonique Hamilton leads into a discussion of the music of the movement during the first and second reconstructions. #PoorPeoplesCampaign #SoundtrackoftheStruggle LaMonique Hamilton
.@CharonHribar reminds us that Dr. King called out the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” in his final speech: “Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!” #PoorPeoplesCampaign #SoundtrackoftheStruggle Charon Hribar
“This IS my grandmama’s movement, and my mama’s movement, and I suspect it will be my grandson’s movement.” @allen_yara #PoorPeoplesCampaign #SoundtrackoftheStruggle
🎶 Love is here
Hope is here
Truth is here
We are the change 🎶

#PoorPeoplesCampaign
#SoundtrackoftheStruggle
“What led the people out of Egypt? Out of Pharaoh’s control? It was Miriam and that song.” @LizTheo #PoorPeoplesCampaign #SoundtrackoftheStruggle
In the movement, we get tempted to compromise and capitulate. And then we go among the people, and they’re saying, “NO WAR!” Not “Well maybe a little bit of war.” So the songs help you sing yourself back to your place of courage and idealism. Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
Songs are oftentimes ahead of us. Maybe the song can see in a way we can’t see with our physical eyes.
🎶 Aint gonna let nobody
turn me around - no!
turn me around - no!
I’m gonna keep on walking
keep on talking
Marching up to Freedomland 🎶

#PoorPeoplesCampaign
#SoundtrackoftheStruggle
.@IAmLamonique asks, “Where will the music take us in the future as we build a Third Reconstruction?” #PoorPeoplesCampaign #SoundtrackoftheStruggle #ThirdReconstruction LaMonique Hamilton
.@CharonHribar talks about how our hearts begin to beat in sync when we sing together. Music is one of the powerful things that brings us together across lines of difference. #ForwardTogether #PoorPeoplsCampaign #SoundtrackoftheStruggle Charon Hribar
.@allen_yara is talking about one of our 14 principles of moral fusion organizing: using all social media platforms available to us to spread the message and shift the narrative.

Which reminds me, are you following me on TikTok? tiktok.com/@revdrbarber Yara Allen
🎶 When I rise, he will have my eyes
When I rise, she will have my eyes
Lord, let them have easy lives
I’m goin’ away
I’ll be back some old day
Please don’t move where I lay 🎶

#PoorPeoplesCampaign
#SoundtrackoftheStruggle

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In the Bible, Joshua says, “Choose ye this day...” Howard Zinn said, “You can’t be neutral on a moving train.”

Right now, we face a choice.

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This has become a moment when I feel compelled to exercise that right, and I hope others will too. I sense a call to speak as a private citizen about my own personal struggle to live faithfully in the present political moment.
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Dems, we love your use of “weird” to describe Trump & Vance. But when there are 140 million poor & low wage ppl struggling to make it in this country, it’s also weird to not speak to them.
Yes, it’s weird for Trump & Vance to call policies that would reduce poverty “communism.” But it’s also weird for Dems to not say “poor” if they want poor people to support their agenda.
When 800 ppl are dying from poverty in the richest nation in the history of the world, it’s weird to not make a big deal about it.

It’s weird to have a Zoom call for every group except the 1/3 of the electorate that’s poor.
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For years, we’ve been fed a pernicious myth that poverty is only an issue for Black people. This myth not only demeans Black people – with racist images of Black mothers on welfare dominating the imaginations of so many Americans – but also obscures the poverty of tens of millions of white people.
When you frame it as being poor people are Black, other folks are working, what you're doing is dismissing millions of poor and low-wage white people.
This form of mythology is designed to keep Black and white people from working together who really are allies and unified when it comes to the experience of poverty in this country.
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In a unified act of solidarity, @GovBillLee joined governors of the former slaveholding states Texas, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Alabama to make a joint statement this week against the @UAW's efforts to unionize autoworkers in the South.
Calling the union a “special interest,” the governors claimed that unions threaten not only good jobs, but also the “values we live by.”

As a preacher from the South, I am tired of politicians trying to co-opt faith with talk about “values” when they do not have the facts to back up their claims.
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@NC_PPC We cannot be silent while politicians prioritize corporate interests over the needs of the poor. From Asheville to Charlotte and Wilmington to Raleigh, we must demand change and fight for a North Carolina and a country that works for all.
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