Posted on 07/14/2021 10:05:29 AM PDT by rktman
The Poor People's Campaign has announced a "season of nonviolent, moral direct action," targeting the U.S. Senate with disruptive activities every Monday, July 12 through Aug 2.
According to the campaign's co-chair, the Rev. William Barber II, "The Senate must end the filibuster, protect and expand voting rights, and pass a minimum wage of $15 an hour."
Barber is getting national attention. Even President Joe Biden recorded a video expressing his support.
Concern about poverty is something we all share.
What bothers me is that the factors driving poverty, according to the research of my organization and others, are ignored by the Poor People's Campaign. And the issues on which they choose to focus either have nothing to do with the reality of poverty or actually make things worse.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
>> targeting the U.S. Senate with disruptive activities every Monday
Disruptive insurgency?
I thought LBJ took care of the poverts decades ago.
Mr. Barber is certainly not lacking any meals......
After Star’s first-hand experience in the grip of welfare dependency, a Christian conversion changed her life. She started a business in Los Angeles and began her activism. She began consulting with federal and state legislators on market-based strategies to fight poverty, including federal welfare reforms that passed in the mid-90s. She founded CURE in 1995 to bring new ideas to policy discussions on how to transition America’s poor from government dependency to self-sufficiency.
Violent insurrectionists
Remy Xtensions!
An insurrection every Monday.
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