Why are the billionaires always laughing?

Because they know the corporate media will never call bullshit on their bullshit.

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Why are the billionaires laughing?

It’s easy to laugh when the corporate press treats you as a glorious success instead of the epitome of a broken social order. Billionaires laugh because they know the corporate media prefers to fawn over them rather than hold them to account.

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Moral Monday

'Which Side Are You On?' Arrests in DC as Women Put Their Bodies on the Line for Voting Rights

"Our democracy is in peril," said Poor People's Campaign co-chair Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis. "In this time, when our Voting Rights are under attack, and economic justice is being denied, we must and so we are, calling out the immoral obstructionism of Congress."

Brett Wilkins · Jul 19, 2021

Rahna Epting

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

'We Are Coming': Poor People's Campaign to March Against Manchin Obstructionism in West Virginia

Brett Wilkins · Jun 8, 2021

'Preaching Is More Than Words': Rev. William J. Barber II Delivers Soaring Sermon in Honor of Martin Luther King Jr.

Jon Queally · Jan 21, 2019

"Democracy can’t be sliced up into parts because human beings cannot be—that is, we cannot trust that we have a real voice at the polls while feeling voiceless in our economic lives."(Photo by Sam Morris/Getty Images)

What’s the Biggest Threat to American Democracy?

Frances Moore Lappé · Jul 12, 2018

The New Poor People’s Campaign: Seeds of a Non-Party Opposition?

Jeremy Brecher · May 14, 2018

The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and the Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis visited with individuals and families at the US/Mexico Border as a part of The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival on October 23, 2017.

We Need A Moral Movement

In our travels to more than 32 states, we bore personal witness to the extreme poverty and systemic inequality that plague the world’s wealthiest democracy.

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II · Dec 29, 2017

“When I left the White House I had to learn that what matters in journalism is not how close you are to power, but how close you are to the truth,” (Photo: Dennis Van Tine/Geisler-Fotopres/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)

Bill Moyers, America’s Conscience, Retires Again—This Time for Real

The PBS journalist steps down from his long-time mission to document the lives of Americans and uncover waste, fraud, and abuse in corporate America and beyond.

Peter Dreier · Dec 18, 2017

Open Letter From Moral Activists To Senator Mitch McConnell In Regards To Tax Reform

Today, we are serving notice that we will not remain silent while the basic institutions of our democracy are undermined.

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II · Dec 8, 2017

Barber is on a 15-state public event tour to address issues of systemic racism, poverty, militarism and ecological devastation.

Rev. Barber: Systematic Racialized Voter Suppression is the "Election Hacking" the U.S. Must Address

"It is amazing to me that we’re having a conversation about Russian hacking, but we’re not having a conversation about racialized voter suppression, which is systemic racism, which is a tool of white nationalism."

Democracy Now! · Oct 4, 2017

Demonstrators participating in the Poor People's March at Lafayette Park and on Connecticut Avenue, Washington, D.C., on June 18, 1968.

What A Revived Poor People’s Campaign Needs To Do In The Trump Era

For the new movement to gain national traction, it will need to draw in poor and working-class Whites.

Amanda Abrams · Aug 24, 2017

"Trump’s efforts are rooted in his own need to avoid humiliation, but voter suppression is nothing new for the Republican Party."

Trump’s War on Voters Has a Long History: We Need a Grassroots Voting-Rights Movement to Fight Back

Trump and his minions have ramped up the attack, but the "voter fraud" myth goes back to the GOP's attack on ACORN

John Atlas · Aug 8, 2017

We Are Radicals at Heart — Don’t Forget It

A historian reminds us that to truly “make America great again” we must enhance freedom, equality and democracy, not diminish them.

Harvey J. Kaye · Jul 3, 2017

America Needs a New Poor People’s Campaign

The future of our democracy depends on us completing the work of a Third Reconstruction.

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II · May 16, 2017

Advocates Cry Foul as NC Lawmakers Pass 'Bait and Switch' HB2 Deal

Backroom compromise aims to win back college tournaments, but rights groups warn that it further sanctions discrimination

Lauren McCauley · Mar 30, 2017

Who Says It Can’t Happen Here?

We have endured 40 years of creeping authoritarianism and it now appears that it may run right over democracy. We must resist and act in solidarity.

Harvey J. Kaye · Feb 28, 2017

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