Bishop Barber: ACLU medal, Women’s March & LA rally
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Bishop William J. Barber II to receive ACLU honor Saturday; will address Women’s March in LA virtually before leading Poor People’s Campaign rally on Monday
Bishop William J. Barber will receive the American Civil Liberties Union’s Roger N. Baldwin Medal of Liberty on Saturday “for his indispensable role in the social justice movement and commitment to ending systemic racism and poverty.”
The ACLU will give the award to Bishop Barber during its 2022 Biennial Leadership Conference, which will be held in Los Angeles and which he will address virtually.
The medal, named in honor of one of the ACLU’s principal founders, was established in 1989 and is presented biennially by the ACLU to recognize an exceptional contribution on behalf of civil liberties. Past recipients have included Dolores Huerta, vice president of the United Farmworkers of America AFL-CIO, and Desmond Meade, president of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition.
In addition, Bishop Barber plans to speak virtually Saturday at the Bans Off Our Bodies rally in Los Angeles. .
The rallies are organized by Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Women’s March, MoveOn, UltraViolet, the Liberate Abortion Coalition and other allies across the progressive movement.
They’re being held in major cities nationwide and are intended to “send a message loud and clear: All people deserve access to the abortion care they need, when they need it, in the community they live in and trust.”
Then on Monday, Bishop Barber will join fellow Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival co-chair Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and the California Poor People’s Campaign to lead a march and rally as part of a Mobilization Tour stop on the way to the Mass Poor People's & Low-Wage Workers' Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls on June 18th.
The Los Angeles program will be live streamed here. It will begin at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET at Los Angeles City Hall at 200 N. Spring St. The half-mile march will proceed counterclockwise around Grand Park, passing many key government buildings including the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Field Office, the Hall of Justice, and local county office buildings.