Thread by @RevDrBarber

WATCH: Bishop Barber & the #PoorPeoplesCampaign join Selma-to-Montgomery March | Fight for the Vote Rally twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

“I’d rather my voice be hoarse from marching in the rain two days ago than have a clear voice from saying nothing.” @RevJJackson Amen #FightForTheVote #PoorPeoplesCampaign

Powerful words from Alabama’s first Black woman poet laureate, Ashley M. Jones @ashberry813. #FightForTheVote #PoorPeoplesCampaign

“That which is done is that which shall be done again!” —Cliff Albright @cliff_notes @BlackVotersMtr #FightForTheVote

“A change is coming! If we don’t get here, if we don’t believe. ... We’ve gotta believe! ... I am the change. We are the change.” —@MsLaToshaBrown @BlackVotersMtr #FightForTheVote

Retired SNCC director Dr. Bernard Lafayette is here today. #FightForTheVote

Join us in Washington, D.C., on June 18 for the Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly & #MoralMarch on Washington & #ToThePolls! #PoorPeoplesCampaign

RSVP online now: poorpeoplescampaign.org/june18?source=…

Doug Moore @UDWA traveled here to Montgomery from California to stand with the workers fighting for voting rights and economic justice. #FightForTheVote #VotingRights #EconomicJustice

“The labor movement and the civil rights movement is one movement for economic justice.” —Fred Redmond @STRedmond @AFLCIO #FightForTheVote #PoorPeoplesCampaign

This is sacred ground. Stop for a minute, and let us lament as we stand here today, nearly 1 million people—mostly poor and low-income people—have died from COVID, and 60% of them didn’t have to die, if there’d been the proper response.

Movements are always about the people. Yes, we march for freedom. Yes, we march for justice. But we do it because we know and love people who are bound; people who suffer from injustice.

There is not a state in the South where the voting population is under 40% poor and low-wealth people. 1/3 of America’s poor live in the South.

If we remember the original wisdom and political understanding of the Selma-to-Montgomery March, we have an opportunity to galvanize enough of this demographic to change the South and change the nation.

The South is not so much a “red” voting region; it is a voter suppression region, an abandoned region, where far too many politicians—Black and white, Democrats and Republicans—ignore the power of poor and low-wealth voters.

Today, for those of us raised in the South and who live in the South, our work must be to keep building a moral fusion movement. We must come together as a coalition powerful enough to end and overcome the suppression and organize the resurrection of fusion politics in the South.

We must build power to enact a #ThirdReconstruction agenda to end systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, denial of healthcare, disabling public education, war economy, & the false distorted narrative of religious nationalism for the saving of the soul of this country.

Voting rights is a moral issue. We demand Democrats bring the original For The People Act—that John Lewis helped to write—back before the Senate.

We demand they bring the Voting Rights Act back to the floor for a full restoration.

We demand a vote on living wages.

We will march and protest and even put our bodies on the line, b/c this voice we have …
This vote we have …
This power we have …

God gave it to me. The world didn’t give it to me, and the world can’t take it away.

Join us June 18 in Washington, D.C.: poorpeoplescampaign.org/june18?source=…