Building a Movement with Rev. Dr. William Barber II

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🗓️ 16 July 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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How do you build a movement? How do you connect people across race and religion and identity in order to create a united coalition? This is the work of Rev. Dr. William Barber II, one of the best and most important political voices in America right now. He has dedicated his life to the fight against systemic racism and poverty, and is known for his ability to organize diverse coalitions around every manner of social justice issues. He’s an incredible figure in movement building politics, particularly in the South, who is doing the tireless work of stitching together a multiracial democracy. RELATED READING The Third Reconstruction by Rev. Dr. William Barber II Revive Us Again by Rev. Dr. William Barber II Repairers of the Breach Poor People's Campaign REPORT: The Souls of Poor Folk YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE Organizing in Trump Country with George Goehl (Jan 8) Building a Progressive Majority with Dorian Warren (March 19)

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0:00.0	If people have the number one, engage in the worst voter suppression we've seen since the 60s,
0:05.7	the worst jaramandering since Jim Crow. If they have to go all the way to Russia and get help.
0:12.3	If they have to lie, ever turn to get help. If they have to racialize things, they realize that if
0:18.4	people really understood, if you vote, you get health care. If you vote, you're going to get some
0:22.5	living ways. If you vote the right way, if they have to do all of that to beat you, don't you
0:26.4	recognize that they are free? Hello and welcome to Why is this happening with me, your host,
0:34.7	Chris Ais. Well, I don't know if you guys know this, but I'm a huge basketball fan. And this is
0:39.0	the time of year is the off season of NBA basketball. There's lots going on in the off season.
0:43.2	There's two big things. There's the draft and there's free agency, both of which you've gotten
0:47.0	like super crazy in recent years. Huge superstars moving from team to team. There's also a huge
0:52.7	amount of activity around the draft. And it's kind of great. It keeps people interested in the
0:56.8	game in the off season. And I was thinking the other day as I was thinking about today's episode
1:01.8	and how I wanted to intro it, that if you asked me to either like build a free agency team or draft
1:08.5	a team of like the best, most important political voices in America right now in my top probably top
1:16.8	would be today's guest. That's the best intro I could do for this guy because he's
1:22.4	he and all that he has to say and his vision of the world and all the work he's doing really
1:26.6	speaks for itself. I don't think there's any real need for me to wind up to it. He's just a really
1:32.3	remarkable singular voice in American politics. His name is Reverend Dr. William Barber. Actually,
1:38.8	Reverend Dr. William J. Barber the second. As you can tell from his multiple titles, he is a minister.
1:45.9	I've had the great privilege of getting to watch him deliver a Sunday sermon in his church
1:51.6	down in North Carolina. He's also an incredibly active figure in movement building and politics,
1:57.0	particularly in the South, and focused on a kind of movement building. He calls fusion politics,
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