On this Presidents’ Day, we are joined by faith leaders and advocates in a call for an action-rooted commemoration of Bloody Sunday on Sunday, March 5, 2023. We ask you to join us by signing our open letter to President Biden and Members of Congress at https://www.breachrepairers.org/selma demanding action on voting rights, living wages, and rural economic investment.
Ahead of the 58th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the letter signed by Bishop William J. Barber, II, Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, Former Senator Hank Sanders, Faya Rose Toure, Rev. Mark Thompson, Rebecca Marion, Rev. Carolyn Foster, and others declares, “If the President or other politicians are going to come to Selma, they should come on Bloody Sunday, when John Lewis and others were beaten and almost killed, to declare that the fight for voting rights and the restoration of what they marched across that bridge for is not over. They should pledge to restore and expand voting rights. They should come to say that they will intensify the battle for living wages that Dr. King talked about at the end of the Selma to Montgomery March; intensify economic investment in rural areas. Maybe the President and members of his cabinet can bring resources to present on that sacred Sunday to the people of Selma who have been devastated by natural disaster.”
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