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11 Nov, 6 tweets, 4 min read
WATCH: Bishop Barber, Transformative Justice Coalition Rally, March as ‘Lynching of Arbery’ Trial Continues! twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
#JusticeForAhmaud Justice for Ahmaud Arbery m...
#AhmaudArbery’s father, Marcus Arbery: “This is everybody’s problem. This is not just a Black-white thing. When something like this happens, it hurts all of us.” #JusticeForAhmaud Ahmaud Arbery’s father Marc...
“We want to be equal like everybody’s equal. ... God created all of us. God loves all of us.” —Marcus Arbery, #AhmaudArbery’s father #JusticeForAhmaud
This is a multiracial movement for #JusticeforAhmaud. Black and white people knee...
Hold on just a little while longer. I know justice is coming soon! #JusticeForAhmaud

(Photo @IAmLaMonique / @BRepairers) 87-year-old Mother Polite k...

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11 Nov
The #PoorPeoplesCampaign understands the intersection between acts of racial violence like the lynching of #AhmaudArbery and the policy violence that leads to so many unnecessary deaths in this nation.
The defendants in this case are trying to use a citizen’s arrest law that protected slave patrols to justify hunting and shooting a Black man out on a jog. This is not only murder. It is also an act of terrorism that is dangerous to all Americans, not just Black people.
We must ensure justice for this family and for a nation where acts of racist terror are fueling the politics of corporate greed and attacks on democracy. #AhmaudArberyTrial
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9 Nov
I disagree that what happened with Democrats in the public debate over infrastructure and Build Back Better has been damaging to their image. 1/11
They could have not fussed, compromised in the backroom, and just cut people out. But progressives didn’t, the President didn’t. They fought for what they believed in and knew poor and low-wealth Americans—over 140 million people—need. 2/11
What they are debating is not $10 trillion, 1 trillion per year for 10 years like the @EconomicPolicy Institute recommended. It’s less than the $6 trillion @SenSanders proposed. It’s less than the $3.5 trillion the President came down to. It’s now just $1.7 trillion. 3/11
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9 Nov
This is why voting rights have not received the same urgency as infrastructure & Build Back Better: “Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, a Republican who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee: ‘Democracy isn’t the objective; liberty, peace, and prosperity are. 1/13
‘We want the human condition to flourish. Rank democracy can thwart that.’ Rank democracy? The only saving grace for such a pronouncement is that, at last, a Republican politician was being honest about his or her intentions, 2/13
and this could well be a turning point in the narrative of our country and our national discourse.” —Joseph Stiglitz @NYTimes December 8, 2020

nytimes.com/2020/12/08/opi… 3/13
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8 Nov
WATCH: #PoorPeoplesCampaign Community Forum | Building Back Better from the Bottom Up! twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
These are extraordinarily serious times. The lie of scarcity is just that—a lie. As we say in the #PoorPeoplesCampaign, we never want to be loud & wrong. So we’re grateful for economist @JeffDSachs standing with us & the people of West Virginia today to lay out truth about BBB.
What is “center-right,” @Sen_JoeManchin? This is about doing what is right for those who are in the center of economic turmoil. #PoorPeoplesCampaign #BuildBackBetter Community Forum taking plac...
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8 Nov
Good morning, all of you who join me on Twitter! I began my day meditating on Amos 5 and thinking about America, the games in DC, the attempts by many who claim to be religious—Christian even—in private but in public they serve greedy corporations. 1/14
They will vote to spend $7 trillion dollars on the war economy and do everything they can to stop investment of $3 trillion in the lives, health, housing, wages, education, and climate of the people. 2/14
This ancient word from the prophets of Israel speaking to their nation at that time needs to heard and heeded afresh today:

Amos 5 (The Message)
Raw Truth Is Never Popular
7-9 Woe to you who turn justice to vinegar
and stomp righteousness into the mud. 3/14
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6 Nov
The blood of those who died in the 1898 Wilmington insurrection still speaks to us today, and we’ve got to remember this history, because look at the trends: lies about voter fraud; a racist insurrection rooted in cheating;
a charismatic leader going across the country spreading lies; taking over parts of the media to spread lies; etc.

Watch my message today live at 3pm ET on WECT.com.
Livestream starting now @WECTnews: wect.com/livestream/
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