On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Bishop William J. Barber, II, President & Sr. Lecturer of Repairers of the Breach, reminds us that we honor Dr. King and the legacy of the advocates and martyrs who came before us by reaching down into the blood, picking up the baton, and continuing to carry the work forward.
“You really don’t have a holiday for prophets,” he said during his MLK address at St. Paul United Methodist Church in Biloxi, MS. “You have a recommitment, a consecration. How you remember prophets or prophetic voices is you go to the spot where they died, and you pick up the baton, and carry it the rest of the way,” he said.
In case you missed it, you can watch Bishop Barber’s MLK sermon below.
Over the next few weeks, Repairers of the Breach is leading a massive organizing and mobilization effort of poor and low-wage voters across North Carolina and other states, culminating in the “This Is Our Selma! — Wilson-to-Raleigh Moral March” (Feb. 11-13) and the “Mass People’s Assembly and Moral March and Mobilization on Raleigh” (Feb. 14).
Today, as a way to support the mobilization, we are pleased to share the Mass People’s Assembly & Moral March and Mobilization Organizing Toolkit. We invite you to download resources, including conversation guides, promotional graphics, and outreach email templates to help mobilize your community for the upcoming moral march and people’s assembly. If you have any questions or need support, you can email us at moralmarch@breachrepairers.org.
The Moral March on Raleigh is not just a single action, it’s a declaration of our power as poor and low-wage voters and allies across North Carolina and other states. Join us in this season of massive civic engagement, voter education and mobilization as we Love Forward Together And Mobilize!
UPCOMING ACTIONS
- 1/20 Mass Clergy & Moral Leaders Call & National Briefing: We are calling on clergy and moral leaders to join us for a national call and briefing, where we will discuss the moral crisis we face as a nation and how we are called to respond. RSVP Today: https://bit.ly/Jan20MoralMassVirtualCall
- 1/31 Goldsboro Moral Mass Meeting: This Is Our Selma Now! Join Repairers of the Breach, the Moral Mondays Coalition, and our partners for the Goldsboro Moral Mass Meting as we continue a campaign of legal and moral resistance against efforts to gerrymander the 1st Congressional District. RSVP today!
- 2/1-2/6 Love Forward Mobilization Tour: Join us as we come together across North Carolina for the “Love Forward Together Mobilization Tour.” From the mountains of Asheville, to the coasts of Eastern North Carolina, we are on the move–mobilizing, organizing, registering and educating for a movement that votes. To register and for more information and updates about tour stops, click here.
- 2/11-2/14 This is Our Selma: Moral March From Wilson-to-Raleigh & Mass People’s Assembly & Moral March on Raleigh: It’s Time To Love Forward Together and Mobilize! We are calling for the most massive civic engagement of voters in North Carolina history. Join us for the “This Is Our Selma! — Wilson-to-Raleigh Moral March” (Feb. 11-13) and the “Mass People’s Assembly and Moral March and Mobilization on Raleigh” (Feb. 14). For more information and to RSVP click here.
Thank you for everything you do to support the moral movement. Please also consider making a grace-filled donation today to help fuel our organizing and mobilization work during this critical season of action.