#PoorPeoplesCampaign Mass Meeting in Binghamton, NY, 10.17.2017

Woke up this morning with my mind stayed on freedom! #PoorPeoplesCampaign

Listening to Kairos' Charon Hribar right now: "Woke up this morning with my stayed on freedom!" #PoorPeoplesCampaign

Rev. Emily McNeill of @LaborReligion: 40% of our state is living in poverty. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

Rev. Emily McNeill: "We are part of a movement that I believe will change history." #PoorPeoplesCampaign

“Politicians & TV talking heads would have you believe that being poor is your own fault. This is a lie.” @emilywestmc #PoorPeoplesCampaign

"This is what the Reign of God looks like and sounds like." #PoorPeoplesCampaign

"Corruption has appeared in the land and sea because of the actions of human beings." Hearing multifaith prayers now. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

"We will not stand by while our neighbors bleed." #PoorPeoplesCampaign #MoralMovement

"May we pray with our hands and feet as we work forward together in a #PoorPeoplesCampaign!"

"A moral life is a life with others! There is a time when each of us must lead; this is one of those times!" #PoorPeoplesCampaign

@liztheo invoking #MLK: There is a fire raging now for the poor of our society. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

"Are you willing to be an ambulance driver; lead brigades of firefighters through the red lights of society?" -@liztheo #PoorPeoplesCampaign

Hearing from @liztheo about the #PoorPeoplesCampaign 2,000 years ago led by Jesus.

The first poor #poorpeoplescampaign was 2000 years ago. The god who leads people out of oppression is the one true authority. #unitethepoor

"There was a #PoorPeoplesCampaign 2,000 years ago, made of fisher people and led by a Palestinian Jew!" -@liztheo @Kairos_Center

Hearing from those effected by rural poverty, the war economy, low wages, and poverty & criminal justice now. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

We need the poor to contribute their expertise, because they're the only ones who know when their struggle is over. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

"On many occassions I have had to skip meals in order for my kids to eat."-A woman testifying tonight. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

$680 billion dollars spent on war economy every year. This could be spent on our communities, our healthcare. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

“Politicians send young men to war...but they’re not the ones that have to face the consequences of their actions.” #PoorPeoplesCampaign

These wars have made our country less secure, not more secure, and destroyed other countries. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

“When they tell you they don’t have the money for your basic needs, they’re lying to your face.” #UnitethePoor #PoorPeoplesCampaign

Elizabeth James of #Fightfor15: "Everyday I have to decide between paying my rent and my electric bill." #PoorPeoplesCampaign

"All I do is work- we shouldn't have to worry if food will make it till the end of the month, or if we can make rent." #PoorPeoplesCampaign

Over 80% of NY jail population are citizens who can't make bail. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

“Prophets have to be raised up from the community. Movements are built from the bottom up.” @RevDrBarber #UnitethePoor #PoorPeoplesCampaign

Ain't Gonna Let No Poverty Turn Us Around!" -@RevDrBarber #PoorPeoplesCampaign

"Prophets come from the community, not from helicopter leadership!" -@RevDrBarber #PoorPeoplesCampaign

Caesar was a narcissist who loved to build things and put his name on them- Jesus challenged the politics of Caesar. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

"Caesar chose cash, God calls us to conscience!" -@RevDrBarber #PoorPeoplesCampaign

@RevDrBarber: "This movement would be necessary even if Obama had 4 more years." #PoorPeoplesCampaign

We need a movement that's not Republican or Democrat, that's about what's right and wrong. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

We need a movement that isn't about saving any party, but about saving the soul of the nation. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

@RevDrBarber: "We need to remember whose land we're on, who it was taken from, the first natives." #PoorPeoplesCampaign

@RevDrBarber: "You know racism isn't just a southern problem? NY has no early voting, no automatic voter registration." #PoorPeoplesCampaign

America needs a moral breakthrough! #PoorPeoplesCampaign #MoralResistance

"We ship the poor off to war because ghettos fill up, and we need someplace to hold them." #PoorPeoplesCampaign

"The same policies that block the hopes and dreams of poor blacks block the hopes and dreams poor whites as well." #PoorPeoplesCampaign

"You're registered for the war @ 18 but not automatically registered to vote! This is voter suppression!" -@RevDrBarber #PoorPeoplesCampaign

For each white person in jail in NY, 8 POC are behind bars. Racism isn't just a southern problem. #poorpeoplescampaign #unitethepoor

#MLK didn't just fight for a higher minimum wage, he fought for a guaranteed basic income. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

Child poverty in #NY is 20%, in New Jersey 14%, even with expanded Medicaid. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

In all states people with disabilities are twice as likely to be poor. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

"Trump is not the first racist resident of the White House." -@RevDrBarber #PoorPeoplesCampaign

If we're gonna have a #PoorPeoplesCampaign, we must address systemic #racism. @RevDrBarber

Sign the #PoorPeoplesCampaign today to get involved in the Campaign in your state! http://goo.gl/Qqz3xk  #UniteThePoor #MoralResistance

“We cannot be a society that writes people off. We need a Moral Revival” #PoorPeoplesCampaign RevDrBarber Kairos_Center BRepairers

Since 2010, 22 states have passed voter suppression. We have less voting rights today than we did in 1965. RevDrBarber #PoorPeoplesCampaign

Voter suppression, not Russia, is the greatest hacking of our democracy today. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

"What we're seeing now is not new, it's as American as apple pie and we must open our eyes." @RevDrBarber #PoorPeoplesCampaign

Being against hate isn't the same as being against systemic racism. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

Sign the #PoorPeoplesCampaign today to get involved in the Campaign in your state! http://goo.gl/Qqz3xk  #UniteThePoor #MoralResistance

"We march when someone is shot by the police, and we should, but 250,000 die every year of #poverty." @RevDrBarber #PoorPeoplesCampaign

"You may even be black, but if you vote the policies of white supremacy you're a part of systemic racism!" @RevDrBarber #PoorPeoplesCampaign

"We need white, black, and brown people who will stand up against White Nationalism!" -@RevDrBarber #PoorPeoplesCampaign

250k people die yearly because of poverty. Legislative murder #PoorPeoplesCampaign @BRepairers @liztheo @Kairos_Center @VOICE_Buffalo

The earth is sick and its trembling and then this war economy 54% of GDP goes to war @liztheo @RevDrBarber @Kairos_Center @BRepairers

"He wants us to say Merry Christmas when his policies wouldn't even help the Mary, Jesus and Joseph of #Christmas." #PoorPeoplesCampaign

"They want to put down Muslims, but I've seen Muslims act more Christian than these people." @RevDrBarber #PoorPeoplesCampaign

Being obsessed with what happens in someone's bedroom isn't faith, it's a fetish. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

"It's about cash, not Christ, greed, not grace. It's a con on the American psyche." @RevDrBarber #PoorPeoplesCampaign

"How could you pick two scriptures and skip 2,000, that sounds pretty liberal to me." @RevDrBarber #PoorPeoplesCampaign

Jesus gave free health care wherever he went, didn't charge a copay, or ask about preexisting conditions. -Dr. Barber #PoorPeoplesCampaign

"Woe onto you who turn justice into vinegar...since you run roughshod over the poor you'll never move into Mar-a-Lago." #PoorPeoplesCampaign

"We need action in the public square!" -@RevDrBarber #PoorPeoplesCampaign

We can't just give up morality and moral action to the Christian nationalists. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

"We're not called to be chaplains to the empire, we're called to be prophets to the nation." @RevDrBarber #PoorPeoplesCampaign

What if we could take over the news cycle for 40 days to change the moral narrative? Join now: http://goo.gl/Qqz3xk  #PoorPeoplesCampaign