Hey Michael Steele podcast listeners, Michael Steele here with another quick take from the Michael Steele

podcast check out what's going on right now. Welcome back everybody to

Michael Steele podcast. I am delighted to have in conversation with us today Bishop William Barber, President and Senior Lecture,

Repaire of the Breach and National Co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign.

Bishop, before we went to break you, kind of laid out the landscape and the truth of that landscape and the impact of communities, not communities of one color or another, but all communities who are trapped in poverty.

One of the efforts that you have underway right now

is a national effort that's wrapped in legislation known as third reconstruction.

What is that?

House Resolution 438 speaks to speaks to this effort to address some of the things that we've been talking about.

Well like you know we had so far two reconstructions in this country that did great things, but both of them were ended either through violence or through legislative destruction and judicial destruction. The first was the first reconstruction after slavery.

That gave us the 13th Amendment, the 14th Amendment,

the 15th Amendment, and led this country out of a lot of the vest some of the vest

of slavery. Then you had the second reconstruction from 54 to about 68

if you will Brown versus Board of Education, then eventually the Medicare,

Medicaid, the Voting Rights Act,

the Fair Housing Act, all came out of great great struggle but as you know those movements were

assassinated and undermined and so forth. We didn't finish the job and we need a

reconstruction that finishes the job for a fair and decent democracy. It's not just having a democracy, what kind of democracy is worth having we wrote a

resolution that laid out 20 some steps and said to senators and to let the

Congress if you believe not this wasn't even to pass it it would say do you have the

resolve to at least have the debate on living wages on health care for all, on affordable housing, fully funded public education, women's

right to their lives because when women's rights are taken mostly poor women get hurt, ending the profiteering and the proliferation around guns, making sure that we have a fair taxation policy,

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