#PoorPeoplesCampaign Mass Meeting in Chicago, IL, 10.12.2017

“Everybody has a right to live & before this campaign fails we’ll all go down to jail” the room is packed & singing #poorpeoplescampaign

#everybody has a #righttolive #poorpeoplescampaign #chicago

.@UniteThePoor #PoorPeoplesCampaign launch sings a song from the 1968 campaign https://www.pscp.tv/w/bK6ubDFkcmplWmdiQXBSRWJ8MU9kS3JvT3FkWW5HWPpwc29p7_5yrwI6ia1SyC9_QLnBQvuvTUm25hapvPbR …

"Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around..." #poorpeoplescampaign #chicago #unitethepoor

Many in #Chicago are scraping by on $2 a day, while others live in lakeside condos. #poorpeoplescampaign

...this gentrification and poverty is the result of Reagan and Clinton era welfare reform. #Chicago #poorpeoplescampaign

Stone Temple Church one of the only churches to allow #MLK to preach 51 years ago. #chicago #poorpeoplescampaign

#MLK didn't get in trouble because he had a dream, but because he started talking about changing unjust structures. #poorpeoplescampaign

Being poor is a multiracial phenomenon. #chicago #PoorPeoplesCampaign

"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything." #poorpeoplescampaign #chicago #moralresistance

"Pharaoh's job is to keep people divided." #poorpeoplescampaign #chicago

Dr. King said in 1968 #PoorPeoplesCampaign that we need $30billion/yr for a real #waronpoverty...& full employment & a guaranteed income.

We never forfeit the chance to choose the path of dignity and justice. #PoorPeoplesCampaign #chicago

"You, oh God, are the God of the oppressed, the God of the poor..." #poorpeoplescampaign #chicago

We don't have to look far to see the 4 evils #poorpeoplescampaign is taking on: racism, militarism, poverty, ecological destruction.

I'm joining the #PoorPeoplesCampaign & a #RevolutionofValues. Who is with us? The time is NOW.https://twitter.com/UniteThePoor/status/849261254636163072 …

"There is a fire raging now for the poor of this society." #MLK #poorpeoplescampaign

More than half of “Chicago residences are poor or low income #PoorPeoplesCampaign #moralresistance

We must be ambulance drivers ignoring the red lights of the current system until the emergency is solved @liztheo #PoorPeoplesCampaign

"We are going to change this country and make it what it has not yet been." #poorpeoplescampaign #moralmovement #chicago

“The day they took my children from me my soul died” testifiers talking about what poverty really means #PoorPeoplesCampaign

"Family services separates families, rather than helps to keep them together." #poorpeoplescampaign #chicago

Lottie from Blocks Together in #chicAgo we need the #PoorPeoplesCampaign to break our isolation.

"I don't have the money to move into another neighborhood- and I'm not going to, because that's my neighborhood." #poorpeoplescampaign

The environment I moved into that was making us sick. They're poisoning our children and then they go home. #chicago #PoorPeoplesCampaign

Testimony from Vincent of Veterans for Peace: "#WarEconomy means less jobs at home, and more deaths abroad." #poorpeoplescampaign

Since 9/11 the US has invaded or bombed 7 countries. #militarism #poorpeoplescampaign

Defense budget was 528 billion in '15-could have provided 21 million people healthcare, 900,000 teacher salaries... #poorpeoplescampaign

#poorpeoplescampaign has the potential to rekindle a dormant anti-war movement, and that's something we need now more than ever.

“Since returning from Iraq, I have lost more members in my platoon to suicide than I did when deployed” #PoorPeoplesCampaign

“The US has the wealth and resources to house, feed and take care of all Americans. Instead, our money is going to war” #PoorPeoplesCampaign

Nowhere in USA is minimum wage a living wage. #poorpeoplescampaign #moralmovement #unitethepoor

No one should work 40 hours a week and struggle to support their families. #poorpeoplescampaign #moralmovement

"We need to show we will no longer be ignored." #poorpeoplescampaign #unitethepoor #moralresistance

The millionaires and billionaires have had their say. Working people need to come together now” #PoorPeoplesCampaign #unitethepoor

Somebody's hurting my brother and my sister and it's gone on far too long. #poorpeoplescampaign #moralmovement

There are more than 40,000 people online watching #Chicago #PoorPeoplesCampaign #massmeeting!

1968 #poorpeoplescampaign was more than #MLK- it was Native Americans, Jewish people, Cesar Chavez, poor whites from Appalachia, & more...

America needs a breakthrough! @RevDrBarber #PoorPeoplesCampaign

Listening to Rev. William Barber. Told my daughter this is our civil rights moment. She wanted to come. #raiseemright #PoorPeoplesCampaign

(1/2) Barber, on conservative clergy who refuse to join up over inclusion of queer folks: "then stay home" #PoorPeoplesCampaign

This #PoorPeoplesCampaign is not FOR the poor, it is WITH the poor.

If you're white, black, Asian, Latino, & you're in poverty & can't pay your light bill, we're all black in the dark. #poorpeoplescampaign

In Illinois, today, 50 years after the 1968 #PoorPeoplesCampaign 20% all people live in poverty. 30% of children

#Illinois poverty rate is highest it's been in 40 years, higher than 55 years ago. #poorpeoplescampaign

1/2 of IL children are in poverty #PoorPeoplesCampaign

#Illinois has a higher poverty rate than half of the country. We need a #poorpeoplescampaign.

There are no anti-discrimination laws for LGBTQ people in #Indiana. #poorpeoplescampaign

Rev. Barber: Systemic #racism is not just extreme acts, it is policy. #poorpeoplescampaign

The confederate statues were erected to celebrate the resurrection of white supremacy in the mid-20th c. #poorpeoplescampaign

Barber: Corrolating voter suppression with poverty levels. These are systemic issues. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

I keep telling people, stop saying we've never seen this before. - @RevDrBarber on history of white supremacy & policy #PoorPeoplesCampaign

Rev. Barber on #WhiteSupremacy: It's not what's in your heart, it's what in the heart of your policies. #poorpeoplescampaign

There are 37 million people without healthcare in the United States. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

400 families in America that make $97,000/hr. We’re locking people up for Fightingfor15 -@RevBarberII #PoorPeoplesCampaign #FightFor15

People who get free #healthcare from the people do not fight for their constituents to have what they have. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

Real evangelicalism starts with a critique of poverty! #PoorPeoplesCampaign

We need to hack through the moral narrative that has hikacked Jesus, Mohammed, and Moses #PoorPeoplesCampaign

If you're not critiquing systems of poverty you're not serving the Jesus of the Bible @RevDrBarber @UniteThePoor #PoorPeoplesCampaign

Rev. Barber: Private religion ain't religion at all-we need a #moralmovement across this country. #poorpeoplescampaign

We need a movement that is deeply Constitutional, deeply moral. We need to stop talking about left & right. #poorpeoplescampaign

Are you ready to join the #PoorPeoplesCampaign? Sign the pledge today! http://goo.gl/Qqz3xk  #unitethepoor #moralresistance

"This isn't left and right, it's about right versus wrong... these are moral issues" #PoorPeoplesCampaign

This mvmt is local; work where u are, with people you are with. Work in your state capital for a new moral narrative #poorpeoplescampaign

The only way for God to really bless you is to hate evil, love good and go into the public square. @RevDrBarber #PoorPeoplesCampaign