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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II joins MSNBC to talk about the GOP’s immoral effort to suppress the vote & filibuster democracy:
"This is exactly why we need to restore the full power of the Voting Rights Act: because discrimination against voters of color is still a huge problem in Texas.” -Texas Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
As Texas lawmakers attack voting rights, GOP official aims to 'build an army' of poll watchers
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Common Cause Texas on Thursday shared a leaked video of a Harris County GOP official discussing plans to "build an army" of 10,000 election workers and poll watchers, including some who "will have the confidence and courage" to go into Black and Brown communities to address alleged voter fraud that....and we need to give them SOMETHING TOWATCH. and we need to start now, they have. 43 states have started voter suppression. they control all 13 confederate states, (170) electoral votes. the top crooks have called a meeting with TRUMP for this week end and they mean business because they know that if we ALL VOTE they loose. they have lost the POPULAR VOTE in 5 of 7 of past elections. we need to gear up for a long vote fight. be prepared to spend 2-3 days in line, bringing chairs, blankets pillows umbrellas, food cell phones, potty chairs and anything that you need to sustain you for a long period of time. THIS IS GOING TO BE SERIOUS BUSINESS and we better get serious.
Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
Civil War II has begun 😕
If we just let the “poll watchers” micromanage every stage of the process, I’m ✨super sure✨ it will kill off all those conspiracies about non citizen votes, ballot harvesting, and a secret cabal of Marxist Jews controlling everything. (sarcasm)
“We don’t want to be poor, either. I don’t expect to be rich, I just expect to pay the heat bill.” -Dave Mayton, minimum wage worker #PoorPeoplesCampaign
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"I don’t expect to be rich, I just expect to pay the heat bill": What it’s like to live on the minimum wage in America.Poverty is a sin and the federal poverty measure is a disgrace! Join the Poor People’s Campaign on Moral Monday, April 12 at 3pm ET for an online mass meeting “Poverty (Un)Measured“, to hear from poor and low-income people, economists and faith leaders who will challenge the dominant narratives on poverty, which minimizes the extent of poverty, blames poor people and racializes poverty in order to disrupt multi-racial solidarity.
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When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been deleted.Hey, Poor People's Campaign, I'm with you completely. But Wording matters. Please change the opening line on this post! . Poverty is NOT a sin! Allowing others to subsist in poverty is the sin! Unfortuately, some people, especially adherents to the prosperity gospel actually think that being financially secure is a sign of God's favor. So those who are not reaping these "material blessings" must, by logic, be out of favor with God, therefore sinful. This theology is a terrible bastardization of the gospel, heretical in my view. But at a glance, the opening phrase could give the wrong impression. People who struggle with poverty are already terribly stigmatized. Let's be more careful here.Thanks for addressing this.
Here you go. youtu.be/2gV19SstJcI
Jackie Cabasso, executive director of Western States Legal Foundation “called on all participants in the Good Friday action to become involved in the Poor People’s Campaign, which she said is taking up Dr. Martin Luther King’s unfinished work and weaving the interlocking injustices of systemic racism, systemic poverty, environmental devastation, militarism, and the war economy into one moral fusion campaign, and calling in its Moral Budget for U.S. military spending to be cut in half.”
Good Friday Swords into Plowshares participants call for abolition of all nuclear weapons
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LIVERMORE, Calif. - Nuclear disarmament activists in the San Francisco Bay Area gathered virtually on April 2 to honor a nearly four-decades-long tradition, the Good Friday Swords into Plowshares Worship and Witness at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of the two sites where every nuclear....How do think Kim un and putin will agree
Join the #PoorPeoplesCampaign on #MoralMonday 4/12 at 3pm ET for “Poverty (Un)Measured.” Hear from poor & low-income people, economists & faith leaders challenging the narratives on poverty & demanding an accurate & updated poverty measure! RSVP: https://actionnetwork.org/events/moral-monday-poverty-unmeasured?source=direct_link&
“Something has been birthed in Bessemer that you cannot put back in the box. What would have been a defeat was for the president to not have weighed in.” @RevDrBarber
Biden took a chance in promoting the Amazon union push. What does its failure mean for him?
The collapse of the effort to organize Amazon workers comes after the president embraced it in an unusual video. Biden is now associated with a losing...
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Amazon announced on June 3, 2020, it would give $10mil to certain orgs in support of Black lives. But just 2 days earlier (June 1), Amazon announced it was cutting hazard pay & blocking union rights of Black lives & Black bodies working in its warehouses.
https://www.breachrepairers.org/blogs/if-we-are-going-to-challenge-corporations-to-step-up-this-is-what-we-must-be-prepared-to-do
Coming up today during the 2pm ET hour @RevDrBarber joins Weekends with @AlexWitt on @MSNBC to talk about the GOP’s immoral fight to suppress the vote & filibuster democracy! Watch:
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"This is exactly why we need to restore the full power of the Voting Rights Act: because discrimination against voters of color is still a huge problem in Texas.” -@texas_ppc
#PoorPeoplesCampaign
As Texas lawmakers attack voting rights, GOP official aims to 'build an army' of poll watchers
Common Cause Texas on Thursday shared a leaked video of a Harris County GOP official discussing plans to "build an army" of 10,000 election workers an...
www.rawstory.com
