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Nov 29 • 18 tweets • 13 min read
A Thread: Atlanta residents and advocates are gathering for a Moral Mass Meeting to lift up the importance of a movement that votes! They are joined by @RevDrBarber & @liztheo, Co-Chairs of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.

#OurVotesAreDemands Picture of Moral Mass MeetingPicture of Moral Mass Meeting
@RevDrBarber @liztheo 🎵 🎶 Don't you wanna vote?! What's on the ballot is voting rights! #OurVotesAreDemands
@RevDrBarber @liztheo "More than 1 million people that have already voted in this runoff & millions more are casting their ballots for justice, truth & freedom. We will hear from folks this evening who have the power to make their voices heard & to change life and policy better for everyone." @liztheo
@liztheo then references biblical scholarship in her opening. For more info check out this article featured in @Sojourners

sojo.net/articles/midte…
#Georgia currently ranks 34th in the quality of child education
65% of fourth graders are not proficient in reading
69% of eighth graders or not proficient in math.
580,000 children live in food insecure households.
Every day children go hungry

Neill Tellier, @GeorgiaPPC Picture of Neill Tellier/GA PPC Tri-Chair
"We must get out the vote! Our lives depend on it!"
Shauna Swearington, @unitehere

#OurVotesAreDemands Shauna Swearington, @unitehere
"As of right now, we are still homeless. I am here to talk to those mothers that are homeless right now that are in the hotels waiting for someone to knock on the door to give us food for our kids for that day. I'm asking for our children's sake, that we #vote." - Zan Armstrong Zan Armstrong
"We will not have a sense of peace within our souls, unless all of our residents in Georgia have access to #education, #healthcare, and to an #environment that we can leave to our next generation.

This is who we're also bringing into the voting booth."

-Rabbi Joshua Lesser Rabbi Joshua Lesser
"We need the right analysis.
We need the right action."
- @RevDrBarber

#OurVotesAreDemands Picture of Rev Barber
"55 years ago today a press release went out announcing that Dr. King had pulled together a meeting on November 27, 1967. A meeting with members of the SCLC and a diverse group of clergy, and announced the poor people's campaign." @RevDrBarber

#OurVotesAreDemands Pic of Rev William J Barber II and Rev Liz Theoharis
"The question is how the votes of poor and low-wage people, their allies, and people of faith, will be used in this moment to challenge the politics of the Philistines in modern times." - @RevDrBarber

#VotingRights Picture of Rev William J Barber II and Rev Liz Theoharis
#OurVotesAreDemands Every piece of regressive public policy cost lives Rev Dr Wi
On the power of policy... #FightPoverty We know the policy answers. We know how to fix this and The
"There's so many voices who make money off of things staying the way they are. They don't want to tell us we have power!" @RevDrBarber

#OurVotesAreDemands Pic of Rev William J Barber II
Poor and low-income voters in #Georgia, BRING THE THUNDER! #OurVotesAreDemands
"Our votes must be thunder." - @RevDrBarber

#OurVotesAreDemands Picture of organizers with the GA Poor Peoples Campaign
"I want you all to just look around the room. Be reminded that the number that's in here tonight, that we started with tonight, was more than the first bloody Sunday." - Danyelle Holmes, @UniteThePoor
"This is a sacred moment and a critical moment. Our votes will effect the future of our voting rights, education, women's bodily autonomy, living wages, and also this epidemic of gun violence." - Rev. Mark Thompson

#OurVotesAreDemands Rev. Mark Thompson

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HAPPENING NOW: Poor and low-income people from all over the western US are coming together in LA to speak out as we head towards the Mass Assembly in D.C. on June 18.

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“This is a damnable decision. Police used a battering ram and broke the door off its hinges as they entered Breonna Taylor’s apartment, shooting her at least five times. Anything less than indictments for the full extent of the officers’ actions cannot stand.” @RevDrBarber
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"Breonna Taylor was shot at least five times in her home and now just one officer faces charges of first-degree wanton endangerment of other people, not Ms. Taylor.” @liztheo
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