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#PoorPeoplesCampaign Mass Meeting, Albuquerque, NM 8.15.17

The Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival's second Mass Meeting — Albuquerque, New Mexico, 8/15/2017. #PoorPeoplesCampaign #MoralRevival

Activists & clergy in Albuquerque, NM march against racism & white supremacy on way to !

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There's a nonviolent army of love rising! Thank you, New Mexico & everyone who came out tonight in

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Watching the livestream from tonight, I was moved to tears multiple times. People are ready! The Spirit is moving!

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"There's an army rising up to break every chain..." Join the Nonviolent Army of the Poor at

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: "The rejected have to lead the revival. No one else can lead the revival."

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"If there's a bully on the throne, go out into the streets and cry loud."

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The is not something or came up with- it's in the Bible. Jesus led a poor people's campaign.

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: "What kind of liberty do you have if you don't have justice?"

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"If you've got breathe in your body, you can fight one more time!"

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We can no longer ignore poverty, ecological devastation, the war economy, and systemic racism.

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"If it took all of these things to defeat us, we're not weak, we are strong!"

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We've got to have a movement that unpacks all of this.

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Call & response of American project: call toward racial justice, call toward racism & white rage

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: "If you vote for policies that support , then you have blood on your hands too."

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"If anybody tells you they haven't seen this before, tell them they haven't been paying attention to history!"

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People must not just condemn racist actions in , but also the racist policies that made it happen.

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Rev. William Barber "There must be a movement of truth and mercy that overwhelms evil with good."

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"We're coming together because ... the moral narrative of our nation must be challenged and changed."

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"We're traveling to 25 states, because we need a moral revolution."

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We ain't giving up! This is America

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"You've got to build a bridge right through that wall."

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Beautiful image: Buffalo come together & ride together into a storm.

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: "We have heard from the people. We're ready for a ."

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Standing room only for launch in ABQ. "We must resist the lie that we have to be divided" -

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"The military is occupying our schools. It's the economic draft of the 21st century." Testimony at Mass Meeting.

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Iraq veteran frm Veterans for Peace: "We are witnessing the militarization of immigration, the demonization of Muslims"

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We are addicted to oil and gas. Are you addicted, too? Let's battle this addiction together.

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4 horsemen extends 's triple evils- racism, poverty, militarism, environmental devastation. We need to address them

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Not to mention the caused by nuclear testing. This is the 4 horsemen incarnate in NM.

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Indigenous land stolen () for bomb testing () leading to generational in NM.

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Indigenous people had their land stolen for the Trinity Test Site, in order to test atomic bombs.

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A NM Trinity Site downwinder is telling us about bake sales for pain meds, selling cattle for chemo.

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"We have sold our creation for our convenience."

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. Rev. Barber: 'We have to make people see who they are hurting.Nobody stands alone.'A National call for a

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"I wear this hijab in honor of another Palestinian Jew: Mary." - Samir Assad

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"As a Muslim woman, I have been spat on and chased by cars. I chased them back." - Samir Assed

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"We must recognize the privilege we have and fight for indigenous communities, on whose native land we are."

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We must ignore red lights of present system, because disinherited people are bleeding to death all over the world

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"There is a fire raging now 4 the poor in this society. People are bleeding to death from this system of economics"

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Will you be an ambulance driver speeding through the red lights of our present system?

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reminding us of the words of Dr. King & asking: "Are you ready to become ambulance drivers?"

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talking about 4 evils- Racism, poverty, militarism, and ecological devastation.

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"We would tell our histories. Sometimes for days. The prophets were rappers." - Reverend Barber

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"The truth is we can worship together. The lie is we have to be divided. We resist the lie. We welcome the truth."

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"Let hearts provide no shelter for hatred."

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Welcome to NM, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis!

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The Rev. William Barber has taken the stage for justice.

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'Gonna let no racism turn me around. Keep on walking & talking down to freedom land'. At in Albuquerque, NM

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"Ain't gonna let no president turn me around, turn me around, turn me around..."

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There front doors of the church are open and people are standing outside and in the parking lot straining to hear.

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"Before this campaign fails we will all go to jail. Everybody has a right to live."

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Multistate. Standing room only. Spilling out into the parking lot. Ready to rumble.

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Forward together - not one step step back.

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Clergy and activists march straight into church in New Mexico for mass meeting. LIVE NOW:

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. & Samia Assed lead 200+ activists in chants of in Albuquerque – known 4 police brutality

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Poor Peoples Campaign w/ Rev. William Barber

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feels even more urgent after From 1968 "What worries me, senator, is that they're getting into step"

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Happening now: Over 200 multifaith activists & clergy march against white supremacy in New Mexico.

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The people united will never be divided! Join a movement organizing the freedom of all our communities.

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