To call attention to what they are calling “McConnell’s Meanness,” the national Poor People’s Campaign is planning a modern-day Jericho action: driving caravans of cars around McConnell’s offices in DC and Kentucky.
As noted in a press release from the organization, they are holding “A sixth national Moral Monday March on McConnell to demand that the Senate majority leader stop the misery, meanness and mayhem created by his refusal to act in the greatest public health crisis of our times. This time, however, in addition to flooding his phone lines at offices in Kentucky and Washington, D.C., activists will hold caravans at them, loudly expressing their insistence that Sen. Mitch McConnell change his ways and unblock bills that help all people, including a fair and full COVID-19 stimulus bill, policing reform bill and money to protect the vote.”
The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival is co-chaired by Rev. Dr. William Barber and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis.
As to why the organization is doing this, the press release says this: “McConnell and his enablers must stop playing politics with the lives of poor and low-income people. McConnell’s sins include: suppressing the vote, sabotaging the USPS, stopping the stimulus, stealing healthcare, stifling living wages, and separating families. We need a full and comprehensive COVID-19 relief package now, and we won’t relent until McConnell does by putting that bill on the Senate floor for a vote.”
Caravans will drive around McConnell’s six offices in Kentucky: London, Lexington, Fort Wright, Louisville, Bowling Green, and Paducah, as well as his office in Washington, D.C. Anyone interested in being in one of the caravans should email kentucky@poorpeoplescampaign.org, or join online at this calendar event.
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