BREAKING: St. Paul just passed a $15 minimum wage for over 50,000 in the city. That's 25% of all workers! St. Paul is the first to pass $15 since the 2018 midterm election. Amazing hard work from all the groups that fought and won today! Congratulations. #FightFor15
“The challenge is to mobilize now, harder than ever...We have a long way to go – last night was only the latest of our beginnings. We have movement work to do.” @RevDrBarber & @PhyllisBennis#PoorPeoplesCampaign https://t.co/zpQUI0aKNp
This is blasphemy.
God is omniscient, omnipresent & omnipotent by God’s self. God is not a Republican or Democrat, but invites every person & party to embrace politics of love & justice.
Marie Mokuba testifying on our nation’s unjust immigration policies in #Baltimore. Our country is based on a fabricated narrative that says it accepts anyone, but really rejects those outside the norm. We won’t be silent anymore! #PoorPeoplesCampaign
“The people that were supposed to be looking out for me and my interests and my environment sold me out, no doubt ... They’re billin’ us for killin’ us.” @NoBayouBridge#NoBayouBridge#StopETP https://t.co/w17lmmeF9k
“By using the term 'policy violence,' the Poor People’s Campaign is demanding that the public and political leaders recognize the real impacts of policy choices, as well as the available alternatives.”@GregKaufmann#PoorPeoplesCampaign https://t.co/E7MAC7a0PP
The truth is that the millions of poor people in the United States today are poor because the wealth and resources of our country have been flowing to a small number of people and federal programs are not meeting the growing needs of the poor. @MissouriPPC@UniteThePoor
#VoterSuppression happening at the hands of the candidate in Georgia gubernatorial race! We will not be silent anymore!! #PoorPeoplesCampaign https://t.co/6Kfkdx25AF
"The factory farms violate almost every law to protect the water sources in our community...People working there cannot get a living wage. In one way or another, we all live downstream from them." -Darvin Bentlage @MissouriPPC#PoorPeoplesCampaign
"I had no idea that never in history has the Department of Defense done an audit of its spending...They can't account for trillions of dollars." -Christopher Overfelt @VFPNational@MissouriPPC#PoorPeoplesCampaign
"We want to call out, expose Christian nationalism...such as passing laws that express their views, and not the views of the people or of Christianity. Christian nationalism is a political program." -Rev. Darryl Gray @MissouriPPC#PoorPeoplesCampaign