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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II Profile picture
@RevDrBarber
Feb 15, 2022 • 33 tweets • 22 min read • Read on X
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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 Bishop William J. Barber II
Share this livestream and invite others to watch with you right now! #MoralMonday #MoralMarch #ToThePolls #PoorPeoplesCampaign
🎶 Hold on, hold on
Keep your eyes on the prize
and hold on 🎶

#MoralMonday #MoralMarch #ToThePolls #PoorPeoplesCampaign Yara Allen, theomusicologist
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!

#PoorPeoplesCampaign #MoralMarch #ToThePolls Rev. Carolyn Foster, Alabam...
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 Bishop Teresa E. Jefferson-...
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. Liz Theoharis
Rev. Dr. Alvin O’Neal Jackson @alvjc: “All roads lead to Washington, D.C.!”

RSVP: poorpeoplescampaign.org/june18

#PoorPeoplesCampaign #MoralMarch #ToThePolls Rev. Dr. Alvin O’Neal Jackson
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. Mobilization Tour calendar
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! The Power of Low-Income Vot...
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/ Rally buses to Washington, ...
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/

#PoorPeoplesCampaign #MoralMarch #ToThePolls Frank Barragan, Alabama Coa...
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.”

#PoorPeoplesCampaign #MoralMarch #ToThePolls Emilee Johnson, Mississippi...
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/

#PoorPeoplesCampaign #MoralMarch #ToThePolls Rev. Pamela T. Andrews, Pow...
“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!

#PoorPeoplesCampaign #MoralMarch #ToThePolls Sarah Brummet, Florida Poor...
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.”

#PoorPeoplesCampaign #MoralMarch #ToThePolls Kareemah Hanifa, Georgia Po...
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 ...”

#PoorPeoplesCampaign #MoralMarch #ToThePolls Rabbi Mark A. Peilen in Gad...
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.

#PoorPeoplesCampaign #MoralMarch #ToThePolls Elliott Smith, co-director ...
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!”

#PoorPeoplesCampaign #MoralMarch #ToThePolls Rev. Julie Conrady at the U...
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/

#PoorPeoplesCampaign #MoralMarch #ToThePolls
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. Screenshot of participants ...

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In the Bible, Joshua says, “Choose ye this day...” Howard Zinn said, “You can’t be neutral on a moving train.”

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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.
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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.
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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.
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@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.
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