As @RevDrBarber said: to change the narrative, we have to change the narrator. Economic justice demands that we listen to people in poverty and act on what we hear. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

In a country with world-historic amounts of wealth, the fact that tens of millions of children live in poverty in unconscionable. Why tolerate extraordinary wealth if it's premised upon extraordinary cruelty? #PoorPeoplesCampaign

Important themes the #PoorPeoplesCampaign has elevated: people in poverty cannot be blamed for a system that immobilizes them; a civilized society provides basic needs like living wages, housing and healthcare; we can afford to do better if we resist corporate greed.

Our system of racialized capitalism is premised on subjugation. This begins with non-white people and poor people, but as the #PoorPeoplesCampaign shows us, young people, immigrants, rural people, and LGBTQ+ folks also suffer. Cui bono?

As @ProfessorCrunk observes, our political economy is driven by a politics of death. Any society that values human life must but people before profits. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

The US began with an attempted genocide of Native people. Genocidal acts continued through centuries of slavery, and today with immigrant child removal. The @UN genocide definition includes: "Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group." #PoorPeoplesCampaign

In the same way that a society valuing human life must provide for everyone's basic needs, a democracy must center civic participation and make it inclusive. Our democracy is under threat from voter suppression, gerrymandering and more. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

I am an atheist *and* a moral being. The #PoorPeoplesCampaign's call for a moral revival is urgent, and you don't need deities or scriptures to know that all human beings deserve a dignified life, free from exploitation and violence. As @RevDrBarber says, we can make that choice.

Our budgets and our laws, our taxes and our programs: all of these are choices, not natural phenomena. Each of these choices reveal the priority of those in power, and the needs of the people are rarely reflected. We must reclaim the power. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

I'm grateful for the hard work of @UniteThePoor and all the folks who organize the #PoorPeoplesCampaign. They are a sterling example of giving power to the people. As I always say, listen and then act.on what you hear: