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WATCH: #MoralMonday June 18 Mobilization Tour Launch | AL, FL, GA, MS, & TN #PoorPeoplesCampaign twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

“Justice is what love looks like in public.” -Dr. @CornelWest

“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.” ―Zora Neale Hurston

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The Mobilization Tour will make at least 10 stops nationwide to Mobilize, Organize, Register, and Educate people for a movement that votes.

Speakers will demand this nation do MORE to live up to its possibilities:

MORE to fully address the interlocking injustices of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation and the denial of health care, militarism and the war economy and the false moral narrative of religious nationalism.

MORE to change the narrative and build the power of those most impacted by these injustices.

MORE to realize a Third Reconstruction agenda that can build this country from the bottom up and realize the nation we have yet to be.

Rev. Carolyn Foster @AlabamaPPC: 8 rural hospitals have closed since 2011. This is why Alabamians, doctors, nurses, and others are mobilizing to Washington, D.C., on June 18!

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If Alabama can be the home of the civil rights movement, it can be the home of this last leg of the movement. We must come together and run the final stretch.

Thank you @nccusa for standing with us in the #PoorPeoplesCampaign and mobilizing toward June 18 in Washington, D.C.! #MoralMarch #ToThePolls

RSVP now and plan to join us in Washington, D.C., June 18: poorpeoplescampaign.org/june18

Rev. Dr. @liztheo @KairosCenterNYC: “Manchin and McConnell come to us with an immoral message. ... If there ever was a time to fight, it is now!”

This is why we are mobilizing to Washington, D.C., on June 18! #MoralMarch #ToThePolls

Rev. Dr. Alvin O’Neal Jackson @alvjc: “All roads lead to Washington, D.C.!”

RSVP: poorpeoplescampaign.org/june18

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Because of COVID, this stop & the next one, scheduled 2/28 for TX, OK, LA, & AR are virtual. Other in-person stops on the tour are: Madison, WI, & Cleveland in March; Raleigh, NC, New York City & Philadelphia, PA in April & Los Angeles, Memphis & the Delta of Mississippi in May.

Poor and low-income people are a powerful voting bloc all over this nation. We have the facts on our website: poorpeoplescampaign.org/waking-the-sle…

This is why we are mobilizing to Washington, D.C., on June 18 AND #ToThePolls!

We’re organizing buses from all across the nation to bring people to Washington, D.C., on June 18. You can sign up right now for a seat on a bus. RSVP now: poorpeoplescampaign.org/june18/

Frank Barragan with the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice: “We really have to stop the fear. We have to move forward and be positive.”

RSVP: poorpeoplescampaign.org/june18/

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Emilee Johnson @Mississippi_PPC: “Exploitation doesn’t have a color or a political party. ... I stand with the Poor People’s Campaign, because we are in desperate need of this Third Reconstruction, and we must do more.”

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Rev. Pamela T. Andrews @FloridaPPC, quoting Scripture: “The poor man cried out, and the Lord saved him. ... We are on our way June 18 to Washington to effect policy!”

RSVP: poorpeoplescampaign.org/june18/

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“Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings.” —Nelson Mandela

It is time for poor and low-income people and their allies to cry out and to demand change.

Join us: poorpeoplescampaign.org/june18/

Sarah Brummet @FloridaPPC is sharing with us about how her family falls in the Medicaid gap, lacking affordable healthcare and access to quality healthcare living in a rural area. She is not alone!

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Florida has a “great” governor. Great in lying. Great in denying. Great in hustling people.

Kareemah Hanifa @GeorgiaPPC: “The poorest people in this country are formerly incarcerated, and they literally have no representation. Because you cannot vote, you do not have a voice.”

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June 18 is NOT just a day of action. It is a declaration of an ongoing, committed moral movement to
1) shift the moral narrative;
2) build power; and
3) make real policies to fully address poverty and low wealth from the bottom up.

RSVP: poorpeoplescampaign.org/june18/

Rabbi Mark A. Peilen in Gadsden, AL: “Friends, Let us unite to pursue humaneness, justice, freedom for all, and equal opportunity to create and succeed, particularly in voting rights, healthcare, housing, employment ...”

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We actually got the call to do June 18 from the book of Amos, chapter 5, when God told Amos, “I need a remnant” that will come together and shut down everything and cry in the public square. “And when I hear the crying of the impacted people, then I will visit you.”

.@elliott_smith22 @BRepairers: My great grand aunt Amelia Boynton and her husband, Sam, organized in the deep South for over 4 decades, amidst racial intimidation, violence, and legislative defeats. But they never gave up.

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Rev. Julie Conrady at Unitarian Universalist Church of Birmingham: “Yesterday, AL Gov. Kay Ivey spent $7 million on a Super Bowl ad, just to insult President Biden. … We are going to D.C. to call for accountability from our leaders!”

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This is the time. This is our Edmund Pettus Bridge. This is our abolition moment. This is the moment you and I are being called to.

RSVP now to join us June 18 in Washington, D.C.: poorpeoplescampaign.org/june18/

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Thank you for joining us online tonight, as we kicked off our Mobilization Tour to June 18 in Washington, D.C.

Join us online again Monday 2/28!

#ForwardTogether, not one step back.