Rev. Barber: What Do We Do When Democracy Is Hijacked?
By Mark Gruenberg|People’s World WASHINGTON—In some of his sharpest language yet against the Trump regime—and its congressional and MAGA followers, too—Bishop and Rev. William Barber II is challenging the country by answering, “What do we do when democracy is hijacked?” Joined by other ministers, victims of Trump’s policies, and Samuel Epps, President of the Metropolitan Washington Central Labor Council, Rev. Barber launched into a fiery speech just a block from the White House on May 11, before leading a group of volunteers to sit down on the sidewalk in front of the Executive Mansion to be arrested in a show of peaceful civil disobedience.There was, as usual, no immediate reaction from Trump. D.C. police monitored the rally, but kept a low profile. And Rev. Barber vowed, “We will be back.”Trump’s troops—National Guards from red states and ICE agents who have been dragooning, beating, arresting, and deporting people—were nowhere to be seen. Rev. Barber answered his own question by quoting sections of the Declaration of Independence.“We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men—it should now be ‘all people’—are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…. Read More
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By Mark Gruenberg|People’s World
WASHINGTON—In some of his sharpest language yet against the Trump regime—and its congressional and MAGA followers, too—Bishop and Rev. William Barber II is challenging the country by answering, “What do we do when democracy is hijacked?”
| Joined by other ministers, victims of Trump’s policies, and Samuel Epps, President of the Metropolitan Washington Central Labor Council, Rev. Barber launched into a fiery speech just a block from the White House on May 11, before leading a group of volunteers to sit down on the sidewalk in front of the Executive Mansion to be arrested in a show of peaceful civil disobedience. There was, as usual, no immediate reaction from Trump. D.C. police monitored the rally, but kept a low profile. And Rev. Barber vowed, “We will be back.” Trump’s troops—National Guards from red states and ICE agents who have been dragooning, beating, arresting, and deporting people—were nowhere to be seen. Rev. Barber answered his own question by quoting sections of the Declaration of Independence. “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men—it should now be ‘all people’—are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…. |
