#PoorPeoplesCampaign

"Demand Florida Leaders Cease & Desist From Sowing Division"

"Dear Gov. DeSantis, Speaker of the House Renner, Senate President Pro Tempore Baxley, and all public officials ... who are using the words of culture wars to attack people and distract from the real issues of public life ..."

"... We demand that as public leaders you cease and desist from words of hate, and we pray as fellow humans that you learn to love mercy and walk humbly in love."

https://www.breachrepairers.org/demand-fl-leaders-cease-desist-full-letter

#PoorPeoplesCampaign
#MoralMonday
STREAMED 11 hrs ago Thursday, Sept 7, 2023
“Jacksonville Racist Hate Killings Press Conference”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fb59ML4ux4

#PoorPeoplesCampaign
#MoralMonday

"Climate Change Imperils US Farmworkers"

".... The latest heat-related death was reported last month in Fresno, California, where a 59-year-old worker suffered heat illness symptoms while harvesting tomatillos ...

On the day of his death, the temperatures reached 100 degrees Fahrenheit .... Before that, the area was in the grip of triple-digit heat that prompted a hazard alert from the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health. ..."

#PoorPeoplesCampaign #MoralMonday

"“Sharing The Aloha” 8/24/2023"

"... “Aunty, take some avocados too- get plenny stuffs”, says the young man manning the produce as he sits on his plastic fold out chair ... Stationed in Napili on the sidewalk of a tropical strip mall that includes a hair salon, a restaurant that serves the island’s best tacos, a surf shop, an actual grocery store, and a coffee shop, the community created an instant center of hope and necessities. ..."

https://neilyoungarchives.com/news/7/article?id=art-Mika-Heart-Of-Aloha

#PoorPeoplesCampaign #MoralMonday

"“A Political Prosecution”: 61 Cop City Opponents Hit with RICO Charges by Georgia’s Republican AG"

"Georgia .... indictments of 61 people on racketeering charges over protests and other activism related to the $90 million police training facility planned to be built in Atlanta. ... charges ... come after many of the same people were earlier charged ... which is still seeking to block construction of the new police complex. ..."

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/9/6/stop_cop_city_rico_charges

@melissagreen This is why one of the injustices we oppose in the #poorpeoplescampaign is the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism.

It’s not a mistake, irrationality, or a failure of logic when people do things like this. It’s part of a *narrative.* That’s its own version of reality where words mean different things and it’s all to a particular purpose.

If you live in #maryland follow https://union.place/@marylandppc for the Maryland #poorpeoplescampaign!

Fight poverty, not the poor!

On the heels of the #DemocracyNow video segment featuring Rev William Barber, here is the article version:

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/9/5/rev_william_barber_jacksonville_florida_shooting

For all people fed up with the avalanche of hate spewed by US conservatives, here is public action against it. A movement I'd like to see grow in strength and voice.

https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/take-action/

#3rdReconstruction #RevWilliamBarber #AgainstHate #PoorPeoplesCampaign

#PoorPeoplesCampaign

"The Poor People’s Campaign Launched on Mother’s Day 2018"

"... On Mother’s Day five years ago, we at Repairers of the Breach and the Kairos Center launched the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival .... we gathered for a mass meeting at National City Church in Washington, D.C., and highlighted the devastating reality that 140 million poor and low-income people live in the richest country in the history of the world. ..."

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/mothers-day-poverty-justice/

#Moral Monday
#PoorPeoplesCampaign

"'Not just a mass moment'"

"Barber said the new manifestation of the Poor People's Campaign has drawn active support from thousands of clergy of different races and faiths."

"There are Jews, Quakers ... white congregations that are pro-civil rights and pro-LGBT ... that care about immigrants and women's rights and voting rights ... not engaging all these issues ... [is] not truly moving in the spirit of the March on Washington. ..."

https://pressofatlanticcity.com/not-just-a-mass-moment/article_8b69a819-139c-5e9b-aded-70b28119f0bb.html

And more #mow60 #PoorPeoplesCampaign

Some more selfies & other pix from last Saturday at the #MarchOnWashington #MOW60 #PoorPeoplesCampaign #FightPovertyNotThePoor

#PoorPeoplesCampaign #MoralMonday

BREAKING

"Rev. Barber tests positive for COVID-19, says symptoms mild"

".... “I want to express my gratitude for the vaccines and booster shots that prepared my body to fight the virus, and I encourage anyone who has not received a vaccine or booster, if they are eligible, to do so as soon as possible,” Barber said."

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-goldsboro-fe721941f510e48a7c60921432007fb3

#PoorPeoplesCampaign

A few days ago:
"An online assembly attempts to correct March on Washington gender gap".

"... The speakers at the Lincoln Memorial .. addressed ... poverty, inequality, racial discrimination and the dream of racial harmony in America. ..."

"... the absence of substantive speeches by women ... now getting a due corrective.

... the civil rights organization Repairers of the Breach will host “She Speaks, ..."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/an-online-assembly-attempts-to-correct-march-on-washington-gender-gap/ar-AA1fJEuD

#PoorPeoplesCampaign #MoralMonday
"The racist murders in Jacksonville didn’t happen in a vacuum. Words came first | Reverend William Barber | The Guardian"

"... Words of hate create an ethos of hate, an atmosphere of hate, a political, social Petri dish of hate. ... spoken words become deeds...."

".... murders of Angela Michelle Carr, Jerrald Gallion and Anolt Joseph Laguerre Jr ... in Jacksonville, ... a man who “hated Black people”, according to ... sheriff. ..."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/29/the-racist-murders-in-jacksonville-didnt-happen-in-a-vacuum-words-came-first

#grandmother #granddaughter #ForwardTogether

#FightPovertyNotThePoor #PoorPeoplesCampaign #MOW60

@michaelgemar @beatnikprof @Tierno158
Reading DuBois' #history of the #Reconstruction & really wishing it were required for anyone majoring in #AmericanHistory

We need a new one, that's for sure:
#PoorPeoplesCampaign

Community delegation and union organizers showed up in a nonviolent effort to support the striking hotel workers at the Double Tree hotel in Downtown #LosAngeles on Friday, August 25.

The general manager who met the group in the lobby responded "no" to most of the community's list of demands for the workers. Also kept trying to put the blame for lack of a deal on the workers, who won't come to the table if a reasonable (keyword reasonable) offer is given.

Everyone deserves to be able to live where they work. No one should have to commute hours back and forth, or sleep in their car during the week, then come to work to scrub or cook for a bunch of rich ungrateful people! Is it really that difficult to pay your workers a living wage?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OMxzfQ5WhU

#labor #UNITEHERE11 #ufcw770 #AFT #clue #poorpeoplescampaign #hotelstrike

Democracy Now
August 25, 2023

#PoorPeoplesCampaign

““Shameful”: Reelected Tenn. State Rep. Justin Jones on GOP Silencing of Critics on Gun Control”

“…. Tennessee’s Republican-dominated state Legislature is still facing public outcry over the state’s permissive gun laws in the wake of Nashville’s Covenant School shooting, which killed three 9-year-old children and three adult staff members in March. Since then, …..”

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/8/25/tennessee_special_session_gun_violence

#PoorPeoplesCampaign

"... Monday, August 28, 6:00pm ET for "She Speaks" #MoralMonday Call to Conscience."

"For decades, women have been at the forefront of our nation's social justice movements fighting for truth, equality, and love.
On the 60th anniversary of the #MarchOnWashington, we're gathering women faith leaders, impacted people, and activists from across the country to 'Speak Up and Speak Out' about the state of the nation and demand a life-saving agenda ..."

https://shespeaksmoralmonday.org/?emci=593a3c30-9142-ee11-a3f1-00224832eb73&emdi=ff1048da-a342-ee11-a3f1-00224832eb73&ceid=12133393