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Poor People’s Campaign Rally and March, June 23, 2018, on the National Mall in Washington, DC.
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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, co-chair, Poor People’s Campaign: “Before you want to quit, go talk to the sister I met in Washington state who lived in a homeless camp who came to a mass meeting who said, ‘I am the white trash that America threw out but forgot to burn.’ … Or meet Callie Greer from Alabama whose daughter died in her arms because the governor and legislature refused to expand Medicaid, and she’s on the front lines fighting back. … Or meet the mother in El Paso who hasn’t seen her husband and children for 16 years and fought with border control to ask, ‘Where is it that I can go and at least touch my husband without it being illegal?’”
Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, co-chair, Poor People’s Campaign: “Our work has only just begun, ’cause over the past 40 days people of all races, colors and creeds have joined together to engage in nonviolent moral fusion direct action to demand that we lift all families up, we lift all people up. We don’t break them apart. It is unjust, immoral and unnecessary to have millions of poor people in this land. It is unjust, immoral and unnecessary that we have children warehoused across this country because of their immigration status, because of their homelessness, because their families had no access to water. We need a Poor People’s Campaign. So we are building one.”
 

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