In more than 20 communities across the US this week, Repairers of the Breach organized Moral Mondays that brought religious leaders and community members together with people impacted by the policy violence of the Big Bad Deadly and Destructive Bill.
People like Sloan, who knows his life depends on Medicaid, named the real cost of the more than $1 trillion that Congress has cut from healthcare spending.
Barbara, a grandmother who fosters children in her community, shared how her SNAP benefits have already been cut from $23 a month to $8. (Members of Congress grant themselves a per diem of $79 for food.) Barbara said, “I’m not complaining. I just want them to do what’s right for the people everywhere.”
At an evening mass meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, where ICE and Customs and Border Patrol have been assaulting immigrant communities for more than a week, a young woman who is the daughter of immigrants shared about how people on the ground are connecting the dots as they stand together against fear and division.
This is the moral fusion vision that Moral Mondays have been lifting consistently since February of this year. We’re grateful to each of you for helping spread the word - and we’re encouraged to hear it articulated so clearly from people who are organizing on the ground in the places they know and love.
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