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June 20, 2020
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“This report shows how poor and low-income voters are the key to shifting the political terrain in this nation It offers the basis for a roadmap to building the Third Reconstruction.” -Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II
Waking the Sleeping Giant of Poor and Low-Income Voters — Repairers of the Breach
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On Friday, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival released a groundbreaking new study, Waking the Sleeping Giant: Poor and Low-Income Voters in the 2020 Elections . This report shows how poor and low-income voters are the key to shifting the political terrain in this nThank your Democrats for passing Pres. Biden Relief Bill that NO republican voted for that help the working poor R's and D's families and our Small Business & thank you Dem's for fighting for Workers rights & Women's rights & Civil rights & Human rights (ACA) & voting rights & SS/Medicare & Min. Wage increase & Veterans Administration & Climate Crisis & Science & protection of from trump's domestic terrorists & education & separation of church and state (religion freedom for all ) etc. so many policies the republican party has blocked are voted against. But one think for sure when you look back at the republican voting record that since Reagan the largest % of their voting record is to corporate welfare the R's has voted to give trillions of our tax dollars to the corporate rich over and over so thank you Dem's for most of the time standing up for all these rights and much more. !!
San Francisco Family! Join the California Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival & stand with the Apache Stronghold/Save Oak Flat:
- Wednesday October 20th, 4-6 pm: Prayer Vigil, US Federal Bldg (across from US Ninth Circuit Court, 7th and Mission, SF)
- Thursday October 21, 10 am-2 pm Day of Prayer, Civic Center Plaza (at Larkin St between Grove and Fulton, San Francisco)
- Friday October 22nd, 9 am-1 pm, Listening Session, Civic Center Plaza between Grove and Fulton, San Francisco)
"As it was in the beginning of our people, one drum, one prayer, and one circle, again we must defend all of humanity with one drum, one prayer, and one circle." - Dr. Wendsler Nosie, Sr.
Apache Stronghold brings its case to California court:
Oak Flat, known in Apache as Chi'chil Bildagoteel, is a sacred site in Arizona’s Tonto National Forest where Native Americans have gone to worship, pray and conduct religious ceremonies since time immemorial. The Federal government protected the sacred site for more than six decades—but in 2014, a rider was attached to a must-pass defense bill directing the government to transfer the land to Resolution Copper, a foreign-owned mining company, which plans to construct a mine that would turn the sacred site into a nearly two-mile-wide, 1,100-foot-deep crater.
Apache Stronghold sued the government in federal court, arguing that the destruction of their sacred site violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) and an 1852 treaty promising that the United States would protect their land and “secure the permanent prosperity and happiness” of the Apaches. After the trial court declined to halt the land transfer, the Apache Stronghold filed an emergency appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Just six hours before the government’s response was due, the government announced that it would withdraw the environmental impact statement that triggered the land transfer, delaying the transfer for several months.
Now the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, located in San Francisco, is scheduled to hear the case on October 22, and the Apache Stronghold will be there—making stops along the way to pray and gather support.
YOU CAN ACT NOW TO HELP SAVE OAK FLAT:
Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) introduced H.R.1884, the Save Oak Flat Act (SOFA), earlier this year. It is now included in the House’s $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill. H.R. 1884 will repeal the Section 3003 land exchange of the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act. Senator Bernie Sanders introduced an identical bill (S.915) in the Senate.
Contact your member of Congress and ask them to protect Oak Flat by keeping the H.R. 1884 Oak Flat withdrawal language in the budget reconciliation bill. Find your representatives and senators or call the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121.
Watch via livestream 10/20 & 10/22: poorpeoplescampaign.org/livestream
“Low-income Arizonans cast 1.4 million votes in the 2020 general election, representing nearly 44% of the 3.4 million votes statewide.” #PoorPeoplesCampaign
Low-income voters cast nearly 44% of all Arizona votes in 2020, study finds - KTAR.com
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Low-income voters accounted for 35% of the 168 million votes cast nationwide in the 2020 presidential election, and in Arizona that percentage was 44, according to a recent study by the Poor People’s Campaign.We have to elect more people that will work for the people. Republicans have lost their way. Vote blue, at least until Republicans can learn how to govern and not rule!!!
Wow, that was a Herculean effort, considering the challenges a lot of low income people face in just getting to the polls. Thank you for voting, each and every one of you! 🙏🏼❤️
If anybody thinks just voting is enough you are sadly mistaken as you have to be a active helping politicians that support the people get elected work on getting ballot measures into law and once a politician gets elected you have to hold the politicians accountable for what they vote for or against me when it comes to state or federal legislation
WATCH: Join the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival for a Town Hall with co-chairs Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II & Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, along with economists, faith leaders, health experts, immigration and human rights activists to discuss the need for a third reconstruction and offer thinking about how to achieve it.
Thank you for taking us to CLASS, Heidi Shierholz! This is POWERFUL knowledge.
Immigrants and refugees: We walk with you toward freedom. Thank you Mr Garcia. Much love.
It's time for an abolition democracy! Thank you, Caitlin Swain #3rdReconstruction
Healthcare and Housing should not be a commodity but a resource, the good soil that is in place to grow the seeds of prosperity for our communities 🌱
Yes! it is an issue in every BIPOC community across the nation. There's a historical pattern of environmental racism in this country.
Thank you panelists for participating in this Town Hall meeting
Emille thank you for your testimony and your courage to speak. I so appreciate what you shared.
Thank you all for your guidance and leadership- Congress has got to listen now!
Our country doesnt suffer from scarcity we suffer from greed and it is time to change that!
Over 140 million strong, we are a new unsettling force. Politicians beware, we will vote you out.
Thank you for the defn of perfect competion and the fallacies about wages. This must be exposed about capitalism. We need to move to "sustainable capitalism" that a 3rd reconstruction would enable
Healthcare should not be a privilege! We need universal healthcare
That's right! Our federal budget prioritizes war, violence, and immigrant deportations! It's time for a #3rdReconstruction!
We're sick and tired of being sick and tired. Forward together!
Thank you Heidi for exposing these myths. We have enough to pay living wages in America
We could make the choice now to continue to cut childhood poverty. It's a policy choice that we have no choice BUT to make!
Immigrant communities have been part of the movement from the beginning. We must organize, organize, organize! Thank you, Fernando Garcia!
Religious Natiinalism has "kidnapped" Jesus. TRUTH...we need to change this
"Hold the line in the House and we (we the people) will hold the line in the street!"
Right! "We don't suffer from scarcity in this country but greed."
Rep Jayapal!!! You are a fighter, non violent, for us.
Love is here, hope is here, truth is here, we are the change!
Wonderful way to pose the question...what would it look like if we invested in poor communities rather than war?
Health care biz made $11B profit in 2nd Qtr of 2021!!! Healthcare should NOT be a for profit. How is it okay to make profit on the backs of COVID deaths???
Send Billionaires where they have never been: the tax office.
“This report comes days after faith leaders & economists stood w/ essential, low-wage women workers from across the country, representing the 140 million ppl who were poor or low-income before COVID-19, on the House side of the U.S. Capitol.” @RevDrBarber https://www.breachrepairers.org/blogs/waking-the-sleeping-giant-of-poor-and-low-income-voters
The US Ninth Circuit Court will hear @ProtectOakFlat’s plea to save Oak Flat from destruction! @liztheo & the #PoorPeoplesCampaign are joining the Apache Stronghold at the Bay Area Prayer Rally at 4pm PT / 7pm ET. #ProtectOakFlat Join in person or online: https://t.co/8zaLrPA6Ki
“@RevDrBarber, I, and many others believe we are in a third Reconstruction moment now, and the long-overdue racial reckoning last year was a leap forward along the way.” -Marian Wright Edelman #3rdReconstruction #PoorPeoplesCampaign
Still Reconstructing, against resistance
In a recent conversation with Ford Foundation president Darren Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner spoke about his book “The Sec...
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This was 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Please check this incredible movement coming together! We can all inspire to move forward together! #PoorPeoplesCampaign #ThirdReconstruction 💜🇺🇸💜 https://twitter.com/revdrbarber/status/1450243911104950276
WATCH: It’s Time For A Third Reconstruction | A #PoorPeoplesCampaign National Town Hall https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1ynJOZLDBjXGR
Thank you, @RepJayapal, for endorsing the #PoorPeoplesCampaign’s moral agenda & fighting in Congress not simply to #BuildBackBetter, but also to build longterm for a #ThirdReconstruction.
