We’re asking the media to stop calling Sen. Joe Manchin “moderate.” His positions are politically mean, not moderate. But he still has the opportunity to go down in history as a great senator, if he will only change!
Rev. Dr. @liztheo reminds us that asking how much the Build Back Better will cost is the wrong question. The right question is How much will it cost for us NOT to do this?
.@SarahDAnderson1 from @IPS_DC is laying out how the Build Back Better plan would help the people of West Virginia.
How the Build Back Better plan would help children in the state of West Virginia:
How the Build Back Better plan would help seniors and the disabled in the state of West Virginia:
Attorney David Fryson calls on @Sen_JoeManchin to not end his political career on this note: “In the name of bipartisanship, Sen. Manchin keeps trying to dilute these pieces of legislation. ... I would hate for his legacy to be like [Alabama Gov. George] Wallace in the South.”
Pam Garrison, tri-chair @WestVirginiaPPC: “We need a Third Reconstruction. ... We’re tired of being let down, and we don’t want half measures. America deserves the full investment.”
Jean Evansmore, tri-chair @WestVirginiaPPC: “Joe, you were put into office to take care of us. We didn’t come here to suffer. ... We pay taxes, and we vote. Joe, do what you were elected to do. We’re tired!”
Kaylen Marie Barker @WestVirginiaPPC: “It will cost more to NOT pass a free community college program than it would to pass it. ... This is a pivotal moment in our history.”
Attorney David Fryson, speaking as a friend and supporter of Sen. Joe Manchin: “We’re extremely disappointed. None of this will make sense unless Sen. Manchin and Sen. Capito end the filibuster.”
We’ve been calling on President Biden to go to West Virginia, go to Arizona, go to Texas, and meet with the poor and low-income leaders on the ground. Then go back to DC and do a major speech from the well of Congress to reset this whole debate.
We will be going back to Charleston, WV, this Sunday 10/24 for a Mass Moral Revival & Rally at the state capitol. Join us online or in person! #PoorPeoplesCampaign#ForwardTogether
America has often chosen wrong and had to pay for it later. This week, over 71 million people chose to return Donald Trump to the White House.
Whether they were right to do so will be determined by whether the anger and vitriol he spewed towards his fellow Americans defines how he will treat them as president.
We have to wonder how much damage he must inflict before even his own supporters feel the hurt so bad they start to question, “what did we do?”
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.
I joined 1,000 clergy to endorse VP Harris in our personal capacity. I hope other faith leaders will do the same. cnn.com/2024/10/27/pol…
My full statement:
In my role as both a bishop of the church and a leader of a non partisan movement, I maintain a position of not endorsing any candidate for public office. But as the law allows, I reserve the right in my private capacity to endorse candidates openly.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The truth is that workers are building power in the South and politicians who’ve made immoral partnerships with corporate interests are feeling the heat.
It’s past time for all God’s people to stand up for living wages and union rights.
We're in North Carolina with the @NC_PPC for the final tour stop on the Moral March to the Polls Tour. We are calling on state governments to enact a #ThirdReconstruction agenda, that’s not about left versus right politics, but about what’s right versus what’s wrong.
@NC_PPC In North Carolina, there are 3.5 million poor and low-wealth eligible voters. If we mobilize and organize together, we have the power to change voting outcomes in every election in our state.
@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.