WATCH: Voting, We Know What To Do and Why We Must Do It | Bishop William J. Barber, II twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
As of today, @UniteThePoor has officially reached 5.1 million poor & low-income, low propensity voters in an effort to mobilize them to the polls. #OurVotesAreDemands
We can never let oppressive forces or mean and authoritative leaders define who we are & what we do. Knowing who you are is critical to your sanity.. & your ability to sustain a fight. It is true for individuals, communities and nations.
In many ways, the extremism we see today has exposed deep fundamental heavily funded highly repeated lies about who we are backed by a network of think tanks and religions nationalist networks.
Our obsession with a person is itself part of the problem.. Let’s be clear, you can incarcerate the man.. but that will do nothing to restrain the forces that have made him the most recent leader of a divisive lying ideology that has deep roots in the American ethos.
There are real costs to maintaining a vastly unequal economy: every year, we lose $1 trillion to child poverty costs and $2.6 trillion in lost earnings from gender and racial wage gaps & we have lost $1.3 trillion in government revenue by lowering the corporate tax rate in 2017.
We understand that if retrogressive legislation and a refusal to act can rob the poor, then legislation can also correct the robbery and restore the real purpose and possibility of society.
Democracy cannot flourish amid fear. Liberty cannot bloom amid hate. Justice cannot take root amid rage.
We must get to work!
We must organize a movement against the injustice & the structures through which the society is refusing to lift the load of oppression and poverty.
We must get to work!
We must organize a movement against the injustice & the structures through which the society is refusing to lift the load of oppression and poverty.
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
