Inspiring post of the day: North Carolina and the Rev. Dr. William Barber are delivering THE message of our times
A Moral Mondays march in the early days from June 2013.
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: