Inspiring post of the day: North Carolina and the Rev. Dr. William Barber are delivering THE message of our times
Need inspiration? Look no further than yesterday’s 20,000? 30,000? massive Moral March in North Carolina. Born out of a months long Moral Mondays movement that is transforming and redefining not just politics in North Carolina, but for all of us as a nation, the movement has merged those fighting for public education with those fighting to uphold voter protections, health care, to improve the criminal justice system, for environmental justice and to lead a new people’s movement. Centered locally, focused statewide, and with national and maybe even global implications (a little early yet, Calcutta by the way reports one million people today for a Left rally!), this is the message of our times – one that merges public education with many critical struggles that isn’t redefining politics, it’s redefining an American society. Below is a speech the leader of the Moral Mondays movement, Rev. Dr. William Barber gave at the Opportunity To Learn conference last summer. It’s 24 minutes of pure inspiration and a roadmap for our times.
And one more bonus for good measure: