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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRev. Barber steps down from NC NAACP post to revive Poor Peoples' Campaign
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article177633731.htmlIn his 12 years of leadership, Barber "... led a registration drive that put more than 400,000 new voters on the rolls. He re-energized the state organization, inspiring new offices to open even in the far reaches of the North Carolina mountains.
He built its numbers statewide, and then channeled the outrage of its members and supporters to create the Moral Monday movement, a series of protests against the state legislatures actions, including the so-called bathroom bill; the countrys most restrictive voting law; and gerrymandered voting maps that helped concentrate power so blatantly that a court ordered them to be redrawn.
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Barber plans to put those consensus-building skills to work next on reviving the Poor Peoples Campaign, a national effort with origins in Kings era.
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In April 2013, Barber, who pastors the Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, launched the first Moral Monday event, taking a handful of people to Raleigh to protest the conservative policies of the legislature. Seventeen people were arrested during the event, but more came back the next week, and the next.
Through the summer, more than 1,000 people were arrested for refusing to leave or quiet down in government buildings, as they urged legislators to reconsider decisions to cut unemployment benefits and eduction funding, to refuse to expand Medicaid for poor people, to approve harsh anti-abortion laws, give tax breaks to corporations while increasing taxes on the poor, and approve a voter ID law that was widely regarded as the most egregious attempt voter suppression in the U.S. in modern history."....(more at link)
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Rev. Barber steps down from NC NAACP post to revive Poor Peoples' Campaign (Original Post)
Tanuki
Oct 2017
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Tanuki
(14,914 posts)1. Poor Peoples Campaign events upcoming in Chicago, Boston, etc.
https://poorpeoplescampaign.org/upcoming-events/
Chicago, IL Mass Meeting
When: Thursday, October 12 at 7 PM 9 PM CDT
Where: Stone Temple Missionary Baptist Church, 3622 W. Douglas Blvd., Chicago, IL 60623, United States
Join co-chairs Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis for a Mass Meeting for the Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revivalon Thursday, October 12 at 7 PM at the Historic Stone Temple Church in Chicago, IL to learn about the inspiration, vision and strategy of the PPC. The Campaign will build a broad and deep national moral fusion movement rooted in the leadership of the poor and dispossessed as moral agents and reflecting the great moral teachings to unite our country from the bottom up.
For more information and to RSVP, click here. Sign an online pledge card to join the Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival here.
(More at link)
Chicago, IL Mass Meeting
When: Thursday, October 12 at 7 PM 9 PM CDT
Where: Stone Temple Missionary Baptist Church, 3622 W. Douglas Blvd., Chicago, IL 60623, United States
Join co-chairs Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis for a Mass Meeting for the Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revivalon Thursday, October 12 at 7 PM at the Historic Stone Temple Church in Chicago, IL to learn about the inspiration, vision and strategy of the PPC. The Campaign will build a broad and deep national moral fusion movement rooted in the leadership of the poor and dispossessed as moral agents and reflecting the great moral teachings to unite our country from the bottom up.
For more information and to RSVP, click here. Sign an online pledge card to join the Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival here.
(More at link)
cilla4progress
(24,713 posts)2. Stepping into
Martin's shoes.
🙏🏾✌🏼
mountain grammy
(26,598 posts)3. I'm glad he's moving to a more national role.
He's a real leader. Like the poster above me said, "stepping in to Martin's shoes."