💖#DefendTheSacred: Poor People’s Campaign ‘March Against Manchin’, June 14

 June 10, 2021  Posted in #CulturalGenocide, #DefendTheSacred, #Genocide, #SystemicRacism 0 Likes 1042 Views
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WEST VIRGINIA (9 JUNE 2021) Read the full article Poor People’s Campaign to March Against Manchin Obstructionism in West Virginia

Joe Manchin’s obstruction – Manchin is the sole Senate Democrat to refuse to co-sponsor the For the People Act, a landmark bill to expand and protect voting rights supported by 79% of likely West Virginia voters.

The faith-led Poor People’s Campaign has announced it will lead a Moral Monday demonstration in the West Virginia senator’s home state next week. “It’s time to march on his office,” Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, said of Manchin, the Senate’s most conservative Democrat, in an interview with Religion News Service. “It’s time for people of all differences to stand together against him — we call it ‘from the hollers in the mountains to the hood.’”

Pam Garrison, a co-chair of the West Virginia Poor People’s Campaign, said she has watched Manchin “talk about compromise, and I wonder, what reality is he in? Is he that delusional, or does he think we’re that stupid?”
“We are coming, and I’ll tell you what — my fellow Americans are coming with me,” said Garrison of next Monday’s march. “We are in this together, and we’re not taking ‘no’ for an answer…. We can do better. We deserve better.”

the usual suspects

Americans for Prosperity, a conservative political advocacy group bankrolled by billionaire Charles Koch, has been pressuring Manchin to hold steadfast in his opposition. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce — the nation’s largest lobbying group — has rewarded him with thousands of dollars in campaign contributions.