Austin Harrington

Rhetoric & Professional Communication PhD student, Organizer Poor People's Campaign, Writer, Father, and Husband.

[Austin Harrington @freedwords]

If “we the people” ever hope to “establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty” healthcare must be a right for all people. Not a privilege for the wealthy. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

[Austin Harrington @freedwords]

Tell me again what you’re doing to protect democracy while the constitutional rights of assembly and free speech were just stripped away from your fellow citizens under a democratic president. 

Resist! Organize! Together!

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[Austin Harrington @freedwords]

powerful militaries in the world and the mass media was weaponized to identify them as subhuman--but you think one more law will stop the oppressed from organizing? 

Across the country, organizers are reading this and planning their resistance. When the morning comes will…

[Austin Harrington @freedwords]

you stand with those who resist? Will you defend the organizers and activists in your community when they come for them? Or will you look away, finding solace in the false perception of your own security, and hope they don’t come for you next?

[Austin Harrington @freedwords]

migrant farm workers organized when the law said that they had no power to resist the corporations that denied them even the most basic levels of human dignity, the imprisoned have organized while the law kept their entire population under constant surveillance from the most…

[Austin Harrington @freedwords]

their children do not matter, indigenous populations continue to organize upon the stolen land of their ancestors while the usurper's law’s continue to justify genocide, women organized when the law defined an entire gender as being an inferior representative of humanity,…

[Austin Harrington @freedwords]

enforced by dogs and fire hoses, HIV-devastated communities organized when the laws said their lives weren’t worth saving, LGBTQIA+ families organized when the law said they couldn’t love, mothers organized while the law continuously attempts to declare that the lives of…

[Austin Harrington @freedwords]

“Under that lower court decision, a protest organizer faces potentially ruinous financial consequences if a single attendee at a mass protest commits an illegal act.”

[Austin Harrington @freedwords]

Abolitionists organized against enslavement despite the law of the time, workers organized for labor rights when it was likely to cost them their freedom--if not their lives, civil rights’ activists organized to register voters while their legal oppression was being violently…

[Austin Harrington @freedwords]

“The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will not hear Mckesson v. Doe. The decision not to hear Mckesson leaves in place a lower court decision that effectively eliminated the right to organize a mass protest in the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas.”

[DSM Black Liberation Movement @DesMoinesBLM]

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. 🇵🇸❤️🖤🤍💚

[Austin Harrington @freedwords]

Des Moines standing in solidarity with #Gazans #EndIsraeliOccupation #FreePalestineNow

[Austin Harrington @freedwords]

@theflobots and @UniteThePoor are going Forward Together tonight in Des Moines! Join us: #PoorPeoplesCampaign

[Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II @RevDrBarber]

Every time there’s been a change in this nation, there was a meeting. It’s for us to come together and have a meeting!

Join us June 18 in Washington, D.C., for the Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly & #MoralMarch on Washington & #ToThePolls: https://t.co/LuWA9NUQC0

[Utah Poor People's Campaign @utahppc]

Thank you @Diocese_of_SLC in calling for the full amount of funding appropriated toward housing as requested by @GovCox. #utahhousingcrisis

[Repairers of the Breach @BRepairers]

“The movement @SBWorkersUnited to organize Starbucks workers has now reached its 100th store. This movement is Black, White, Latino, Asian, & Native. Eventually, the workers will win. They are raising a star of justice that everyone must see.” @RevDrBarber https://t.co/w1SikKikcD

[Poor People's Campaign @UniteThePoor]

“Up over my head I see justice in the air.”
🎤 @Lindsey9Live

The next Mobilization Tour stops are this Monday, February 28 at 8pm ET. Hear why impacted folks in AR, KS, LA, OK & TX are organizing & coming to DC on June 18! #PoorPeoplesCampaign https://t.co/D4PXHLKDU2

[Poor People's Campaign @UniteThePoor]

Join @RevDrBarber & @liztheo on March 4 at 7pm CT for “A Moral Cry For A Moral Crisis | A Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee Public Conversation” from First Baptist Church in Selma, as we kick off a week of events with our #Alabama family! #PoorPeoplesCampaign https://t.co/ifcU8DcFhg

[Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II @RevDrBarber]

“Justin Bieber is incentivizing his fans who attend his Justice tour to commit to “Justice in Action” by supporting nonprofit organizations.” #JusticeInAction #PoorPeoplesCampaign

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[Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II @RevDrBarber]

Our next Mobilization Tour stops are this #MoralMonday, February 28, at 8pm ET, covering five more states, including Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

https://t.co/9rNWKe8inW

[Poor People's Campaign @UniteThePoor]

“Why do we even have to protest?” one of my students asked me. What a good question. @texas_ppc

Learn more at the next Mobilization Tour stop 2/28 @ 8pm ET. Hear why impacted folks in #Texas are organizing & coming to DC on June 18! #PoorPeoplesCampaign https://t.co/D4PXHLKDU2