The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival is uniting people across Alabama to challenge the evils of systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, ecological devastation and the nation’s distorted morality of religious nationalism.
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This. From three powerful women of God!
Young descendants of Frederick Douglas speak out.
VIDEO: Frederick Douglass' Descendants Deliver His 'Fourth Of July' Speech
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The U.S. celebrates this Independence Day amid calls for systemic reform. In this film, five descendants of Frederick Douglass read excerpts of his speech, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II on Twitter
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II on Twitter
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“Trump & McConnell know that if they end Obamacare & you get COVID, you won’t ever get insurance, because you'll have a pre-existing condition. This is some evil ?%#$! We better vote like our lives depend on it, because they do.”From our Texas PPC family.
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“On this first day of early voting for the TX Primary Runoffs, we must call out the hypocrisy of state leadership for their personal use of mail-in voting while denying expansion of mail-in ballots for the rest of us during the pandemic. 1/ t.co/7UtaOi2viN”Something is fundamentally shifting. There is a consciousness awakening, and you cannot put it back in the box.
America is facing a reckoning over race, but we’ve seen this before
What kind of country sees Black Lives Matter as a radical idea and Black suffering and death as unremarkable? African Americans are dying at 2½ times...
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On this first day of early voting for the TX Primary Runoffs, we must call out the hypocrisy of state leadership for their personal use of mail-in voting while denying expansion of mail-in ballots for the rest of us during the pandemic. 1/
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Three top Texas GOP officials who oppose expanding mail-in voting h...
Texas' top Republican officials call absentee voting a recipe for fraud and are fighting efforts to expand it during the coronavirus pandemic. But the...
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If we canceled 1 military contract for 1 yr, like the 1 awarded to Boeing, we would have $25B to expand Medicaid in the 14 states that haven't already done so under the ACA. This would mean life for millions of ppl in those states who are still uninsured.
A moral agenda for a troubled America
William J. Barber II and Liz Theoharis write that the present uprising for racial justice is about more than ending chokeholds and police misconduct -...
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Hundreds of people are lined up here at Alabama State University in Montgomery, the only site in Alabama where the Dept. of Labor is helping ppl w/ many basic unemployment claim issues, most of which can’t be handle via phone or online. People started lining up at 7 pm last night
"According to organizers, the three and a half hour event was 'the largest digital and social media gathering of poor & low-wealth people, moral & religious leaders, advocates, & people of conscience in this nation’s history.'" -Sarah Anderson @IPS_DC
Virtual Poor People’s Campaign Rally Draws Crowd of More Than a Million - Inequality.org
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