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Arizona Poor People's Campaign

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AZPPC is a state chapter of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. We seek to unite 2.9 million poor and low wage Arizonans to challenge systemic racism, poverty, war economy, ecological devastation & religious nationalism.

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Arizona Poor People's Campaign @azppc.bsky.social · Nov 24

Arizona Poor People's Campaign (AZPPC) is excited to join Bluesky! Follow us!

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Arizona Poor People's Campaign @azppc.bsky.social · 1d

Today! Watch the North Carolina event at 8:00 am Arizona time (11 am EDT): breachrepairers.org/get-involved...

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

“The demonstrations were very small.”

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Arizona Poor People's Campaign @azppc.bsky.social · 1d

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Now Is The Time For Moral Courage

No Kings was more than a day of mass defiance; it is a sign that we're in a season of moral courage

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last hippy @bobzavoda.bsky.social · 1d

TOMORROW🎸👀🙏

POOR PEOPLE BE JAHMIN'🎸❤️

last hippy @bobzavoda.bsky.social · 2d

10s o MILLIONS❤️🌈🙏

North America ~ Europe ~ Africa
~ Asia ~ South America ~ Australia ~ Antacrctica

LIVE! No Kings

🎸TODAY🎸

🙏MONDAY the 20th🙏

LIVE! Moral Mondays National Pray-in/Stay-in
Non-violent👀❤️
at Senate & House offices
We Be ROCKIN' 🎸 our Nation

link:
breachrepairers.org/get-involved...

screen capture of Moral Mondays Pray-/Stay-in flyer

screen capture of N Dakota Standing Rock protesters back in 2016, in the thousands, stretching back into the distant horizon .... holding a banner .... front and center .... "DEFEND THE SACRED"

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last hippy @bobzavoda.bsky.social · 1d

Pray-in/Sit-in

TOMORROW!

no loss of healthcare on OUR WATCH🎸

no mass deportations on OUR WATCH👀🙏🌈❤️🎸🌵🌏

we are America

we ROCK🎸

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last hippy @bobzavoda.bsky.social · 1d

"Stand up. Speak out!"

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Steve Schmidt (@steveschmidt)

Some further reflections from the No Kings rally in Iowa City yesterday, including the wise words of Thomas Paine:

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Arizona Poor People's Campaign @azppc.bsky.social · 1d

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Arizona No Kings rallies draw massive crowds opposing Trump

Arizona No Kings protests Trump Capitol Phoenix draw tens of thousands as inflatable costumes become resistance symbol

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Arizona Poor People's Campaign @azppc.bsky.social · 2d

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Wealthy Americans Are Spending. People With Less Are Struggling.

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Arizona Poor People's Campaign @azppc.bsky.social · 2d

AZ Poor People's Campaign, Mesa, Arizona.

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No Kings protests expected to draw tens of thousands in Arizona this weekend | Arizona Mirror

Arizona No Kings protests Trump weekend rallies expected to draw thousands across state over authoritarian actions

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Arizona Poor People's Campaign @azppc.bsky.social · 4d

The goal of the far right, Christian nationalists, and white supremacists in this moment is clear: to fix Kirk in the public imagination where Dr. King once stood. But the point isn’t to honor a tradition of justice — it’s to replace it entirely.
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The Right Wing Desperately Wants to Make Charlie Kirk Its MLK

On Charlie Kirk’s “National Day of Remembrance,” white supremacists want to replace a tradition of justice with their own manufactured myth.

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Arizona Poor People's Campaign @azppc.bsky.social · 4d

Shameful!
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Another Arizona Republican keeps retweeting bigoted anti-Muslim posts

GOP State Rep. Joseph Chaplik, who is mulling a Congressional bid, keeps amplifying Islamophobic social media content.

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Arizona Poor People's Campaign @azppc.bsky.social · 4d

This is what fascism looks like!
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Trump threatens more crackdowns in Dem cities, prosecutions of his political enemies | Arizona Mirror

Trump Operation Summer Heat FBI arrests total 8,700 as president pledges continued enforcement in Democratic cities

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Sojourners @sojo.net · 5d

Taxing billionaires would be a widening of the eye of the needle, a flattening of the obstacles between them and the reign of God. It’s the loving thing to do, writes Tyler Huckabee.
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A Christian Plan to Help Billionaires

There is no logical reason for people to live like this. We should help them.

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Arizona Poor People's Campaign @azppc.bsky.social · 5d

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A True American Tale: Indigenous Rights vs. Corporate Greed - Truthdig

The fight by the Western Apache to save Oak Flat once again highlights the limits of religious freedom for non-Christians.

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Arizona Poor People's Campaign @azppc.bsky.social · 6d

This Saturday, October 18, we’re exercising our right to dissent and taking to the streets.
Prepare for No Kings protests with our virtual Know Your Rights training Wednesday, October 15 at aclu.org/october15-training

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Arizona Poor People's Campaign @azppc.bsky.social · 6d

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove and William J. Barber, II
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Is Your Healthcare On the Line?

Millions of Americans are at risk of losing their health insurance at the end of this year. Virginia is one of them.

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Arizona Poor People's Campaign @azppc.bsky.social · 7d

The article focuses upon a Mosque and Temple and the relationship between an Imam and a Rabbi in Detroit, a metro community with large numbers of both Jewish and Arab residents.
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