With white supremacy and corporate greed taking hold in our statehouses and Washington, we need a moral revival to save America’s soul. #PoorPeoplesCampaign
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Alabama PPC GOTV Team docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Join our GOTV Team! We will contact poor and low-wage workers who are infrequent voters encouraging them to make their votes their demand this election. Let's Wake the Sleeping Giants in this state. Sign up now to join our team!
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Bring your group, delegation, and family and let's show our power as we wake the sleeping giants on Saturday, March 2nd for the launch of this massive voter mobilization. Scan the QR code below.
Alabama Poor Peoples Campaign retweeted
Things Alabama can't find money for: Medicaid.
Things it can: The most expensive prison in the United States.
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Please sign on to this letter! – at Birmingham, AL
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Press Conferences will be held in Bham, Montgomery & Mobile Sat. highlighting Moral Poverty Action Congress in DC; 800 people die every day from poverty. Poverty = Death.
Mobile - 10 am @ Central Presbyterian Church
Bham, 11 am @ GBM
Montgomery, 11:30 am @ St. Paul AME Church
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Alabama Poor Peoples Campaign retweeted
From June 19-21, our #MoralPovertyActionCongress brought together impacted people and faith leaders from 30+ states demanding action to address death by poverty and say: we won’t be silent anymore.
Photo credit: Shanaz Deen
Alabama Poor Peoples Campaign retweeted
Oh, damn.
BREAKING: In a win for voters, U.S. Supreme Court issues a decision in Allen v. Milligan blocking Alabama's congressional map. The Court rules that the map violates the Voting Rights Act by diluting the voting strength of Black voters. More to come: bit.ly/allenvmilligan
ALT Held: The Court affirms the District Court’s determination that plain- tiffs demonstrated a reasonable likelihood of success on their claim that HB1 violates §2. Pp. 9–22, 25–34.
Stand with Alabama's poor and low-wealth people. Join us on the steps of the State Capitol at 11 am Saturday. RSVP here - actionnetwork.org/.../the-re…...&
Alabama Poor Peoples Campaign retweeted
This is the kind of in depth analysis we need when dealing with DeSantis. He is not trying to be Trump. His tactics & strategies are much older, deeper & dangerous. nytimes.com/2023/02/17/opini…
Alabama Poor Peoples Campaign retweeted
I’ve written @SenSchumer & Senate Democrats to urge them to call a vote before the end of this Congress on critical legislation that has already passed the House. I hope you’ll join me in writing to say, “Now is the time” breachrepairers.org/open-let…
‘ALPPC GOTV1’ by Carolyn is on #SoundCloud soundcloud.com/user-92736420…
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Alabama Poor Peoples Campaign retweeted
The Fair Housing Act guarantees all Americans access to homes w/ clean, safe drinking water. That includes the residents of Jackson, Mississippi. clarionledger.com/story/news…
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Christian nationalism is the single biggest threat to democracy in America. Over the past 4 years, the #PoorPeoplesCampaign has organized 400 orgs & millions of Americans to challenge it & its interlocking injustices. Join us: poorpeoplescampaign.org
Alabama Poor Peoples Campaign retweeted
I have finally been released after being held in custody for over 3 hours.
There is something deeply immoral when you would be willing to use your power, not to provide people living wages, not to provide people voting rights, but to take away a woman’s power over her body.
Alabama Poor Peoples Campaign retweeted
UPDATE: 🚨 Bishop William J. Barber, II has been arrested and is still being processed after today’s non-violent action.
Alabama Poor Peoples Campaign retweeted
Callie Greer of the @AlabamaPPC was on #RolandMartinUnfiltered last night laying out the facts: When we can change the south, we can change the world.
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