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Jan 18 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
A new report out today from Oxfam finds that inequality has not only worsened over the last two years, it has become deadly.

Read my latest w/ @LizTheo & @OxfamAmerica’s @AbbyMaxman @BNCNews: bnc.tv/covid-economic…
In stark terms: The wealth of the world’s 10 richest men has doubled since the pandemic began, from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion, at a rate of $1.3 billion a day.
Meanwhile, the incomes of 99% of humanity have fallen because of the pandemic and one person is dying every four seconds from lack of access to healthcare, gender-based violence, hunger and climate change.
This is why we must mobilize for a Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington & To the Polls, June 18.

Join us: poorpeoplescampaign.org/rally-map/

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Jan 20
This thread is based on some of the words I shared with my dear friend @SenatorWarnock last night on the eve of the historic vote in the Senate:

This is a form of political crucifixion, but we will be the resurrection.
I don’t like using war metaphors, but when the U.S. suffered a sneak attack at Pearl Harbor, the nation didn’t quit. She got stronger, and FDR went harder. He didn’t ask for less, he asked for more.
When President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, he called the day “a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that has ever been won on any battlefield.” We must see that the war on democracy is ongoing, and we must treat it with the same urgency and seriousness.
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Jan 19
.@SenatorTimScott said he would support Trump while former Trump staff and officials were actually trying to stop him. We have said a lot about Manchin and Sinema, but we need to call out Scott, a southern Black man who benefited from the VRA and the fight for voting rights.
Scott refuses to support fixing the Voting Rights Act and to support the For The People Act written by John Lewis.
He is the worst kind of hypocrite. He benefits from the suffering of those before him and then joins the forces of oppression. He hangs onto Trump like Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson) in “Django Unchained.”
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Jan 19
We in the movement must stop letting the tail wag the dog. Already some are saying the only way to deal with Sinema and Manchin is the next election. No, we can put pressure on them for the For The People Act that John Lewis wrote to be brought back up. It’s still an active bill.
But this time we should apply maximum moral pressure. The pressure should demand a larger Build Back Better plan, as well. The President, prior to Presidents Day, should meet with diverse religious leaders and impacted poor & low-wage people and then
let impacted people, surrounded by moral and religious leaders, take the mic and talk to the nation. The President should then go on a national tour, starting in West Virginia and Arizona, to promote this agenda to help all Americans.
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Jan 17
“When much of the black leadership attacked or shunned him, King replied, ‘What you’re saying may get you a foundation grant, but it won’t get you into the kingdom of truth.’
“In short, Martin Luther King Jr. refused to sell his soul for a mess of pottage. He refused to silence his voice in his quest for unarmed truth and unconditional love. For King, the condition of truth was to allow suffering to speak;
“for him, justice was what love looks like in public. In King’s eyes, even too many black leaders sacrificed the truth for access to power or reduced sacrificial love and service to selfish expediency and personal gain.
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Jan 14
WATCH: #PoorPeoplesCampaign Press Conference & National Launch for June 18, 2022! #ForwardTogether twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
We’re committing to go full, all-out in building the #PoorPeoplesCampaign: A National Call for Moral Revival in this moment of our national sickness. When we see political and physical insurrection; when we see assaults on the poor and low-wealth;
when we see wide-spread assaults on voting rights and democracy; when we see misinformation campaigns and billions spent to divide us; in this moment, we are committed to mobilizing the largest mass assembly of poor people & low-wage workers in this nation’s history on June 18.
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Jan 13
This is a damn shame to have to do all of this to protect the promises of the 14th and 15th amendments and the right to vote.

washingtonpost.com/politics/senat…
Anyone who agreed to stand down and wait a year after the inauguration and insurrection to push to fix the VRA is just as guilty to seeding power and influence to Manchin and Sinema as anyone else. But redemption is always possible, if we all chip in and do our part now.
Let’s not forget that the VRA has been before the Congress since 2013. Ever since June 25, 2013, when the Shelby decision said the Congress had to write a new coverage formula.
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