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Related: About this forumGood news: William Barber Takes on Poverty and Race in the Age of Trump
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Barber and Theoharis met in 2013, at the opening of the Kairos Center, where he was one of the speakers. (The center advocates a grassroots approach to ending poverty, in which poor people are the key elements of leadership.) At the time, he was launching his Moral Monday movement in North Carolina, enlisting a broad-based alliance of Christians, Muslims, Jews, nonbelievers, blacks, Latinos, poor whites, feminists, environmentalists, and others to protest the conservative agenda of the state legislature. Theoharis, an ordained Presbyterian minister, had spent twenty-five years doing organizing and social-justice work among domestic workers and Native Americans, and advocating for the rights of the homeless. The new project is called the Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. This time, the demands include federal and state living-wage laws, equity in education, an end to mass incarceration, a single-payer health-care system, and the protection of the right to vote.
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/14/william-barber-takes-on-poverty-and-race-in-the-age-of-trump
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Good news: William Barber Takes on Poverty and Race in the Age of Trump (Original Post)
guillaumeb
May 2018
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Rev. William Barber and his "Moral Monday" movement in North Carolina are examples...
S.E. TN Liberal
May 2018
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S.E. TN Liberal
(508 posts)1. Rev. William Barber and his "Moral Monday" movement in North Carolina are examples...
...all Democrats should know about and support.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)3. Agreed.
Like the Reverend King Jr. before him, Barber is a tremendous voice for progressive politics.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)2. "He's the real thing." - Senator Elizabeth Warren
Barbers career has veered between the political and the religious, but the two paths often intersect: he argues politics from a theological perspective, while his sermons are informed by the lessons of the streets. When he mentions the good book, he is as likely to be referring to Howard Zinns progressive primer A Peoples History of the United States as he is to the one that contains the Old and New Testaments. He learned both traditions at home.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)4. And, as his title shows, he is a theist.
Which is almost like a non-theist according to someone.
Voltaire2
(13,213 posts)5. What's the matter gill? Nobody showed up to break your
idiotic commandment so you had to poof up a dispute on your own?
Mariana
(14,861 posts)6. He's usually not quite this obvious.
Are you all right, Gil? You seem to be off your game. Did you have a few extra glasses of wine this afternoon, perhaps?