We're off to a good start!
On September 8, citizens of Gainesville rallied to unite. We're taking seriously Rev. William Barber's admonition at the NetRoots gathering that we not be fools. If you missed what he said about that, here it is:
The reality is, the greatest myth of our time is that extremist policies only hurt a small subset of people such as people of color, or women, or poor, or the LGBT community, when in fact they hurt us all.
So we need the kind of coalition where educational advocates stand for education, but they also stand up for LGBT rights. Where health care advocates stand up for health care, but they also stand up for labor rights. Where labor rights people yes stand for labor rights, but they also stand up for civil rights.
Why? Because we understand that these tea party type extremists, they are against us all.
The same people that fight labor rights, they fight women's rights. And the same people that fight women's rights fight LGBT rights. And the same people that fight LGBT rights fight working rights. And the same people that fight workers' rights they fight healthcare rights. And the same people that fight healthcare rights they fight immigrants' rights.
if they are together and we're not together who's the fool?
So we stood together in Gainesville.
We talked about
campus rape
We talked about the
Medicaid Gap in Florida
We talked about
organizing
and
the pain of injustice
and
voting rights
and
reclaiming the word "morality"
and
spreading the movement
.
And we sang.
We sang for freedom, we sang for justice, and we sang for love between our brothers and our sisters.
We're gonna rally again on October 13th, and every second Monday of the month thereafter until our personhood is reclaimed and our democracy restored. Moral Mondays Gainesville is going forward together!
The links are to videos of the talks, courtesy of David Wilcox. They are all on his YouTube stream
here. Peace and solidarity.