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#PoorPeoplesCampaign Mass Meeting, Detroit, MI 9.5.17

The Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival's sixth Mass Meeting — Detroit, MI 9/5/2017. #PoorPeoplesCampaign #MoralRevival

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Folks are setting up and gathering for the : A National Call for Moral Revival:

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"Blessed are they who have sense enough to know there is stuff we should be mourning about."

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Religious and community leaders come together at against racism, poverty and the otherization of human beings.

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Rev Barber & Rev Theoharis stand with Poor People's Campaign activists & Detroit dreamers against the removal of DACA.

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"For to say he loves Latinx students but nullify is Jim Crow era " - WIllam J. Barber II

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"White nationalism and white supremacy has an agenda."

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"Just because you are against doesn't mean you are against " - Rev. William Barber II

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This attack on mostly Latino people is racist, and the agenda of

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We are here w/the 11 mill immigrants in this country. We are a country of immigrants.

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“The bible says you’re supposed to treat the immigrant and the stranger like a brother or sister.” -

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. Faith leaders state that revoking DACA is white supremacy

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We know that the attack on DACA is only the beginning of the attack on our immigrant brothers and sisters.

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We are here in to say that we will not be divided.

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Otherizing people and condemning immigrants is the beginning of fascism.

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If folks are sinister enough to be mean together we ought to be courageous enough to do good together.

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Adonis speaking as a DACA status who has lost family members through deportation: we, the people, also have power!

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We stand together because all of our rights are under attack. Adonis, DACA recipient who is on hunger strike.

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"We aren't just hungry for food, we're hungry for justice."

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"We are calling for a divestment campaign from hate."

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Invoking Assata Shakur: It is our duty to fight for our freedom, it is our duty to win...

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...we must love and protect one another, we have nothing to lose but our chains!

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Forward together. Not one step back!

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I woke up this morning with my mind, stayin' on freedom.

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"Even if they lock me up, I'm gonna let it shine..." 🎶

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"Even in the jailhouse, I'm gonna let it shine..." 🎶

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"Now is the time to flip over the tables of injustice."

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Hearing the story of Detroit Jews for Justice, which emerged out of the original 1968 and Jews for Urban Justice!

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"50 years is Jubilee--a time for radical renewal."

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Some want us to believe the triplets of racism, militarism, materialism are essential to our being, but it's not true.

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We the people will be out of order!

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"Cry out full throated – another world is possible. May we be blessed to help bring it about."

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Whether we rise or fall we will do so as one. E pluribus unum. Out of many one.

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This movement has a space for you. Join the

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Valerie Jean from : they took our democracy then our water. meeting.

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are you willing to be an ambulance driver? Are you ready to run through those red lights of racism?

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"America is in need of a breakthrough." -

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"We believe that the people impacted should be the first voice--we don't believe in helicopter leadership"

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We're not ready to throw away the Bible--we can't prey for a President while he's preying on the most vulnerable.

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We're tired of people saying so much about what God says so little & so little about what God says so much

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"I'm one of these preachers that believes God made everybody." -

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Donald Trump is not new--his election is as American as apple pie. Trump is a symptom of .

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"There must be a committed to mass civil disobedience."

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"We don't need anymore commemorations--it's time for folks to ante-up."

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Amos: "Because you run roughshod over the poor, you're never going to move into the luxury homes you built."

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"I need a remnant that will call everybody in the nation to cry over the sins hurting the poor..."

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"We want a nation where all of God's children are seen as special and loved and important."

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"We need to understand that it is the rejected that must lead the revival."

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Thank u & Dr Ivery & Ms Wiley for hosting Moral Revival for Justice in Detroit as we seek education 4 all

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Mass Meeting Forward Together, Not One Step Back

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