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Feb 3 • 24 tweets • 16 min read
WATCH: Protect Voting Rights & Pass Build Back Better Now | #PoorPeoplesCampaign Press Conference twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Join us in Washington, D.C., on June 18 for the Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly & #MoralMarch on Washington & #ToThePolls! Learn more and RSVP online now to let us know you are coming: poorpeoplescampaign.org/june18 #PoorPeoplesCampaign
Congress ratified the 15th Amendment on Feb. 3, 1870, but states used poll taxes, literacy tests, and other ways to block its implementation and abridge the right to vote. Now senators are refusing to take action and stop new voter suppression laws.
From voter ID laws to limiting early voting access and from West Virginia to New York, the people are calling for voter protection in the face of persistent barriers to voting.
Examples of such laws include making it more difficult to vote early or vote by mail; harsher voter ID laws; and the infamous Georgia law that makes it illegal to hand out water or snacks to people waiting to vote.
Rev. Paul Dunn at First Baptist Church in Charleston, WV: “A moral crime has been committed and continues to be inflicted on this state and our country by our sitting senator, Joe Manchin.” #PoorPeoplesCampaign #VotingRights #BuildBackBetter Pastor Paul Dunn, First Baptist Church, Charleston, WV
Pastor Paul Dunn to @Sen_JoeManchin: “Your position does not present to people the love of God. ... We want the Build Back Better. We need voting rights legislation passed and protected. We need you to represent all West Virginians.”
Pam Garrison @WestVirginiaPPC: “[WV is] number one for joining the military. They give their life, their limbs, their minds to protect our democracy. ... to defend our Constitution, the very thing every one of y’all swore to do. All we ask of you is a vote!” Pam Garrison, West Virginia Poor People's Campaign
Jean Evansmore @WestVirginiaPPC talking now about the importance of restoring the Child Tax Credit by passing #BuildBackBetter.

Read our op-ed on the CTC @CommonDreams now: commondreams.org/views/2022/02/… Jean Evansmore, West Virginia Poor People's Campaign
.@StewartAcuff @WestVirginiaPPC: “The Bible is full of workers being treated with dignity and respect. Why is that so hard for Joe Manchin to do?” #PoorPeoplesCampaign #VotingRights #BuildBackBetter Stewart Acuff, West Virginia Poor People's Campaign
“What kind of human being can be against a Child Tax Credit? What kind of human being can be against lifting children out of poverty? They never did nothing to nobody!” @StewartAcuff
Right Rev. Lark Muncy, Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Kermit, WV, on Manchin’s failure to pass voting rights and Build Back Better: “It’s detrimental to the needs of my people. ... We’re tired of compromise, with no change.” #PoorPeoplesCampaign #VotingRights #BuildBackBetter Right Rev. Lark Muncy, Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Kermi
Eddie Burke, retired field director of the @MineWorkers, on the provisions in #BuildBackBetter for healthcare coverage for miners suffering from the horrible disease known as black lung: “It’s a vital part of Build Back Better.” #PoorPeoplesCampaign Eddie Burke, retired field director of the United Mine Worke
Rev. Dr. @LizTheo calling on her senator, @SenSchumer, and @Sen_JoeManchin to pass voting rights protections and #BuildBackBetter now! #PoorPeoplesCampaign Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, co-chair of the Poor People's Campai
From the letter sent today to @SenSchumer & @Sen_JoeManchin: “We write on behalf of the people of West Virginia ... to request that you meet with a delegation of impacted people from WV and NY, faith leaders, economists, and voting rights lawyers from the #PoorPeoplesCampaign.”
“Today it seems the focus of some senators is to do the least rather than the most for justice. In this political atmosphere, the rights of millions are being denied and abridged.

“Congress must move past outdated Senate traditions and act now to save the country.”
“It is time to publicly answer: which side are you on? It is time to go back and pass the full voting rights protection and expansion bills (the John Lewis Voting Rights Restoration Act and the For the People Act) before the ones amended by Senator Manchin failed.”
“It is time to go back, overcome the regressive filibuster, and pass the full $3 trillion #BuildBackBetter Agenda (not reduced down to $1.7 trillion or what is being compromised now).”
At some point, if we don’t stop this foolishness, this nation is going to implode, because it can’t hold the stress that we’re seeing now. Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
Nothing is dead as long as God is alive. Only God can proclaim life and death. And Sen. Manchin is not God.

Economist @ShaillyBarnes is speaking now on what’s at stake with the expiration of the Child Tax Credit, and why need to pass #BuildBackBetter now to restore it.

Read more in our latest op-ed @CommonDreams: commondreams.org/views/2022/02/… Shailly Barnes, Kairos Center
Adam Thiesen, low-wage worker and coffee barista organizing a union of coffee workers in NYC: “I pour coffee in a cafe where I cannot afford to eat. ... To the company, we’re just a line in a budget. We deserve better.” #PoorPeoplesCampaign #BuildBackBetter Adam Thiesen, low-wage worker and coffee barista organizing
.@RevJacquiLewis @MiddleChurch in New York City: “Make no mistake about it, we are being beaten down— by politics, by compromises, by fear, by timidity, by our leaders.” #PoorPeoplesCampaign #VotingRights #BuildBackBetter Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis, Middle Collegiate Church in New York
.@SenSchumer and @Sen_JoeManchin, meet with the people. Meet with the people. Because the people will eventually meet with you, either in the streets or at the ballot box. But what we will not do is quit.

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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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