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Rev. William Barber said that something is wrong in a nation that went through a pandemic and remains without universal health insurance.
A regional mobilization was held on Tuesday at historic Trinity Church in preparation for a major national moral rally by and for the poor and low-income workers, scheduled for June 18.
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"Everyone has the right to live" and "We all rise when we rise from below," read the banners people carried as they walked through the streets of the financial heart of the world.
Rev. William Barber said the goal of the mobilization is to save this country from itself, saying that the United States needs a heart transplant, as something is wrong in a nation that went through a pandemic and remains without universal health insurance.
"Our politics is trapped in the neoliberal lie of scarcity... where they blame the poor for poverty," he said, recalling that almost 140 million people in the U.S. live in poverty or with low income.
Yesterday evening we participated in Moral March ending at Trinity Church in Wall Street~ an event so humbling and moving I was Reduced to Tears.
— Egypt Nolastname (@NolastnameEgypt) April 12, 2022
Thank you Reverend Barber Juneteenth we're going to do it again in DC Please
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Besides stressing that the United States needs a "moral resuscitation," he condemned systemic racism, ecological devastation, the war economy, and militarism.
The co-director of the Poor People's Campaign, Rev. Liz Theoharis, said that the movement seeks to be disruptive and has as a central request a radical redistribution of political and economic power in the U.S.
Barber and Theoharis convene Christians, Jews, and Muslims to send brief messages during the demonstrations on why they are in the movement. People who had been struggling against poverty and marginalization participated in the rally.
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