Arts & Culture
View our arts and culture resources, including We Rise: A Movement Songbook.
or
June 20, 2020
On June 20, 2020 we gathered together online as a powerful moral movement!
State Campaigns
Join the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival in your state.
Resources
Learn more with our resources, including the Moral Audit and Budget.
As we said in 2019, anyone who wants to lead from Pennsylvania Avenue needs to come to Cancer Alley & listen! Glad to hear President Biden mention #CancerAlley in his address today. #PoorPeoplesCampaign
The president’s actions today also align with 1 of our 14 Policy Priorities to Heal the Nation in the #First100Days: Enact a federal jobs program to build up investments, infrastructure, climate resilience, etc & socially beneficial jobs in poor & low-income communities: bit.ly/PPCFirst100Days
Read more: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/27/joe-biden-climate-change-executive-orders
How about all those tent cities in this country? Is Biden thinking about the inhabitants?
Preachhh!!!!
I think we need both. Without conversations, policies tends to be reflective of limited perspectives that are often not remotely connected to the needs of the communities they are meant to serve. Talk without action is cheap. Action with dialogue costly.
A great liberal talking point is that we should all “have conversations” while nothing, on any fundamental level, changes.
We must have the faith that all of us matter enough to deny some of us the full benefits of democracy without accountability for the generations of harm performed against America’s highest vision of human value. Until all of us matter some of us can’t matter.
So, so true! At the same time, we must keep having the conversations to get enough people to see the truth and get them to change the systems. We have so much work to do!
Faith without works is, as Rev. Barber preaches, just conversation.
So true.
Implementation of laws and policies must be just and equal.
Yes! I've been asked to participate in so many conversations and I'm exhausted of conversations. We need policy change.
#DEscheduleCannabis and #hemp create whole new, green industries and jobs!
We need to have conversations and then follow through with action!
Indeed. Frequently, "conversations" are used as a way of stalling or mis-directing away from meaningful action.
Exactly! The time is for action NOW! Talking is over.
But politics is additive. You have to move people to your side. I look to King's beloved community. It's far easier, and more lasting, when you bring people to your side in numbers and that does take dialog. It's not either or. In fact the pushing of an agenda without bringing enough others along creates a pendulum effect where when 'the other side" gets an advantage they undo all your policies. We are caught in decades of this back and forth. Until we can bring enough people with us, it will continue and progress will remain temporary.
Can conversations help develop the consensus needed to change the policies? Or develop more effective means?
I think it's both
It’s also about having conversations- just changing policy is a technical fix- we need an adaptive fix too!
Agreed Rev Dr William Barber
You can’t change hearts or minds Only God can do that We don’t have time to Inbicker We aren’t ready and they are.
Am mark Crowley If you are poor DM me 😔😔😔💔 I feel pain for some people, and please introduce your self properly.
🔥
Amen 🙏🏾
In slow dummy term he means that it's more trick bag language
Amen!
Yes
“Texas’s hands-off approach has rallied the virus, killing more than 33,700 Texans, leaving children orphaned & forcing doctors to make painful decisions about rationing care.” #CrimesAgainstHumanity
Texas governor's hands-off approach to Covid-19 has allowed the virus to thrive
amp.theguardian.com
Hospitals in the state are overwhelmed with more than 13,500 coronavirus patients and a Republican leader rejecting lockdownsThe fact that these states actually could use Federal funds to help meet medical need but choose to not participate or spend funds on other types of so called social service. The genocide of the poor, indeed.
Republican leaders in Texas are extra crazy and extra destructive, sad for Texas
Same is true in Georgia. Our governed refused mandate anything say that Georgians would do the right thing. Did not work out so well.
Don’t forget about Ron DeathSantis of Florida
I saw all these Texas teachers bragging on another post about being all at school and just fine. 🙄
The trump/republican way! Are you tired of winning yet?
So sorry for all of the essential workers in Texas
Nobody wants to mess with Texas, they do everything Big...
Depraved indifference
Yep it's crazy here in Texas. My wifes works is now 1 in 3 people have it. It only took 2 weeks for this to happen cuz some people didnt wear there mask in certain areas. Went out to the movies. All kinds of selfish dumb shit. I hate most people's behavior.
Like a one-person “Death Panel” virtually flipping a coin with each Texan’s life.
TX sucks. M
So sick To hear. Trump started this hate.
And yet compare Texas per capita deaths with other states!
Gabriela Castaneda
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey has done even worse. We are dying from his depraved indifference. Arizona has been the worst in the world for covid more than any other state. Send help
Thats what CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY CHARGES are for😒Fck'rs like him!
YOU GET WHAT YOU VOTE FOR. RACIST BACKWARD TEXAS PULLING US ALL DOWN. SHOULD BE GIVEN BACK TO MEXICO WHERE IT BELONGS.
no shit.....
“Why are we fighting for $15? It’s not only for me, I’m fighting for my community.”
Fight with workers like Monique and demand Congress pass the #RaiseTheWage Act to win $15 nationwide! bit.ly/RaiseWage15
Say That!!! Yesss and Amen!!!
Raise the minimum wage by 2025? For real?
Fkn idiots. Don't want minimum wage don't work a minimum wage job. I don't wanna pay $14 for a #3 at McDonald's cause u have no drive to do better for yourself.
“Thursday’s service featured prayers from Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Muslim, Greek Orthodox, Navajo, Hindu, Sikh, Mormon and other traditions. There is a broad and powerful coalition of religious groups that support a progressive way forward for our country.” Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons & Maggie Siddiqi
Opinion | How Trump's amoral presidency galvanized the religious left
www.nbcnews.com
For decades, conservatives controlled American religious discourse. But a progressive coalition is on the rise.Our new press secretary’s sister is a Unitarian Universalist minister! 🤗🤩
It's about time y'all woke up. If only the religious left had been active and organized, and motivated, to stop what happened 4 years ago.
It is time we reclaim the righteous path from heresy and the Pharisees. The Paula Whites, Franklin Grahams and legion of fake pastors more interested in proximity to power than the tenets of the Gospels must be repudiated.
It really doesn’t make sense! For some reason I did it I don’t think will ever find an answer I’m not sure
The religious...no left about it. The religious right are confused about Jesus' teachings.
Mia Di Stefano I feel like you might like this
🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
So good to hear!
Atheists were left out.
Let's see if the religious left can the US drone strikes against our Muslim brothers and sisters. If the drone strikes stop, then I will believe.
Not amoral. It is immoral.Amoral means morally neutral. Creamed corn is a amoral. Donald Trump is evil. He is immoral. I wish people would quit using the word amoral to describe something that is immoral.
The solution to the abuses of power, to our Representatives not representing us is to replace our Republic with a Democracy so “we the people” can represent ourselves. Our Representatives should have done these things long ago without us having to say a single word: 1)Permanently tie the fed min wage to the cost of living specific to each city and county. 2)Mandate that all employers pay their employees by the hour and for every hour worked. 3)Mandate One Bill=One Goal, putting a stop to the deliberate attempts to do nothing or shove through ideas that are so lousy they can’t stand on their own. 4)Create an economic system that’s designed to “permanently eliminate poverty” by subdividing it into “Wants” and “Needs”. Anything in the “Wants” category can keep the existing system that allows the marketplace to set the price. Anything in the “Needs” category must be sold on a sliding scale basis according to what someone’s income is compared to the fed min wage and cost of living specific to the city or county of residence and, restricted by the actual cost to import, produce, store, distribute, sell.
💯💯💯
Since when are mormons progressive about anything...? 🤨😮
IF TRUMP DOESN'T PAY FOR WHAT HAPPENED AT THE WHITE HOUSE, THAT CAN ONLY MEAN THAT THE POLICE OFFICER HAS BEEN KILLED FOR NOTHING..WOW😟🥺👣😇
Please let President Biden & Vice President Harris know you support the #PoorPeoplesCampaign's 14 Policy Priorities to Heal the Nation in the #First100Days.
Sign now to add your name: https://t.co/PZeK1VfEst
“We have to start somewhere and move forward, this is long overdue so we want to ensure that we keep moving forwards and not going backwards.” Ana Ilarraza-Blackburn, @NC_PPC #PoorPeoplesCampaign
"Dreamer" reacts to President Joe Biden's memorandum on DACA
Just days after President Joe Biden signs a memo ordering that the Secretary of Homeland Security preserve and fortify the Deferred Action for Childho...
www.wxii12.com
We need to take action regardless of who’s in power: Join us Feb. 1 to launch #MoralMondays in the #First100Days w/ a teach-in on the new political moment we're in & to join a massive call-in to Schumer & McConnell to demand immediate COVID relief: http://poorpeoplescampaign.org/livestream
WATCH: Virtual People’s Healthcare Town Hall w/ @NYHCampaign! We can’t have racial & economic justice without universal healthcare. #NYHealthAct #PassNYHealth https://fb.watch/3hrjOVwyJy/
The #PoorPeoplesCampaign has worked w/ grassroots organizers in Louisiana to lift up the environmental justice issues in Cancer Alley. Good to hear @POTUS cite their struggle today while pledging to center equity in the fight vs the climate crisis.
