Rev. William Barber kicks off get-out-the-vote tour in Raleigh

Standing in Raleigh’s Bicentennial Plaza on a chilly Friday morning, Bishop William Barber II urged the millions of poor and low-wage voters who stayed home in previous elections to create a “wind at the ballot box” this election.

“Poor and low-wage voters are not to be played with anymore,” said Barber, a national co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign. “If we ever needed to vote, we sure do need to vote now.”

Barber, the former head of the North Carolina NAACP who came to national fame a decade ago while leading the “Moral Mondays” movement, joined about 30 organizers with the North Carolina Poor People’s Campaign, Repairers of the Breach, the NC Council of Churches, Forward Justice Action Network, and the Union of Southern Service workers to kick off a get-out-the-vote tour that will travel first around the state and then the country.

Gaggles of museum and legislature visitors strode by the rally, but few joined the dozen or so spectators. About 300 more viewed the event on YouTube.




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