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      Bishop William Barber II speaks during a demonstration at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. on November 15, 2021.

      Dem Leaders Urged to Mark Bloody Sunday by Acting on Voting Rights, Economic Justice

      "This is no time for foolishness, photo-ops, and flaky commitments," declares a letter from faith leaders including Bishop William Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis of the Poor People's Campaign.

      Jessica Corbett
      Feb 20, 2023

      "Selma is sacred ground. It is, in a very real sense, the delivery room where the possibility of a true democracy was born. It is no place to play or to be for political pretense. Either you're serious or not. If you're coming, come on Sunday, the actual day of remembrance. If you're coming, come with a commitment to fight for what these people were willing to give their lives for."

      That's the message that faith and rights leaders sent in a Monday letter to U.S. President Joe Biden and members of Congress ahead of the anniversary of Bloody Sunday—when white police officers violently assaulted civil rights advocates, including future Congressman John Lewis (D-Ga.), as they marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama on March 7, 1965.

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      Rev. William Barber speaking in Montgomery, Alabama

      This Vote That I Have...

      We must come together as a coalition powerful enough to end and overcome the suppression and organize the resurrection of fusion politics in the South.

      Rev. Dr. William J. Barber Ii
      Mar 12, 2022

      The following are the prepared remarks from Bishop William J. Barber II, president and senior lecture of Repairers of the Breach and co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, delivered March 11, 2022, on last day of the Selma-to-Montgomery march which started earlier in the week.

      Since we left Selma on Monday morning, I had to make a detour to Memphis to stand with Starbucks workers who were fired for trying to organize a union. And as I was driving from that march back to this one, I thought about how movements are always about the people. Yes, we march for freedom. Yes, we march for justice. But we do it because we know and love people who are bound; people who suffer from injustice.

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      People hold up 'Protect Our Vote' signs as they march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in commemoration of the 57th anniversary of 'Bloody Sunday' in Selma, Alabama on March 6, 2022

      Anniversary of Selma Should Remind Americans How Democracy Is Defended

      African Americans won the right to vote because we and our allies marched for it, demonstrated for it, were beaten and died to gain it. After Selma, people of conscience demanded that the country live up to its Constitution and its democratic ideals.

      Jesse Jackson
      Mar 08, 2022

      Politicians for both parties loudly praise the courage of Ukrainians defending their democracy from the Russian invasion. Yet, bipartisan defense of democracy disappears when the question is democracy at home. Mar. 7 marked the 57th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" in 1965, when the police attack of a peaceful march of Blacks seeking the right to vote in Selma, Alabama, stirred the outrage that led to passage of the Voting Rights Act.

      At stake is the direction of the country. Republicans have voted against raising the minimum wage, paid family leave, support for families with children, affordable day care, affordable prescription drugs, and fair taxes on the rich.

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