amy: william barber, cochair of the people's campaign -- poor people's campaign, speaking to us from . michael zweig, author of "class, race, and gender: challenging the injuries and divisions of capitalism." bishop barber wrote the introduction. that does it for our show.

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the group's co-chair rerchgd william barber made announcement from the national press club.hour. [silence] today we are here to announce that on march 2nd, 2024, in 32-plus states that you will hear more about later, we will be holding a mask poor wage workers moral march to state house assemblies, part of a 4a mobilization of low workers to touch more than 15 million infrequent voters between now and november. and -- to announce that in june, june 15th, we will also be marching on the united states congress to launchn our summer initiative to continue to push to mobilize these 15 million poor and low income voters, low income low wage workers. it is time for a resurrection and not an insurrection and we this year are in the 60th anniversary of freedom summer. but freedom injustice is that which you must continue, continue to fight for. i'mhi going say a little bit moe but we want to introduce this first by way of our promo video whole nation might see and might join in with us. and so at this time promo video. jackson -- [silence] is it not? what do we want -- justice. >> w

this is bishop william barber unveiling the initiative at a press conference monday. >> for far too longremists have blamed for people and low which people while moderates too often have ignored or people and appealed to the so-called middle class. meanwhile, poor and low income, low-wage people have become nearly half of this country and we are today to make wondering -- one thing clear. we have the power to determine and decide the 2024 elections and elections beyond. amy: millions of people gathered across turkey to commemorate one year of the devastating earthquake and its aftershocks killed over 50,000 people. in antakya, the capital of hatay, the worst hit southern province, crowds held a moment of silence at 4:17 in the morning local time, marking the moment the quake struck. protests broke out as residents continue to demand justice and accountability from authorities for poorly regulated construction and for delays in responding to the disaster, which left many to die trapped in the rubble and in the freezing temperatures. others gathered in malatya to mourn their dead. >> i've

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the group cochair reverend william barber ii made the announcement from the national press club. this is an hour. >> today, we are here to announce that on march 2, 2024, and 32+ states that you will hear more about later, we will be holding a massport peoples low-wage workers moral march to statehouse assemblies, part of 42 weeks organizing mass mobilization of poor and low-wage voters across the usa that touch more than 15 million infrequent voters. between now and november. and to announce that in june, june 15, we will also be marching on the united states congress to launch our summer initiative to continue to push to mobilize the 15.4 and the income voters in low income, low-wage workers. it is time for a resurrection and not an insurrection. and we, this year, or in the 60th anniversary of freedom summer your freedom and jus that which one must continue, continue to fight for. i'm going to sail a bit more but we want to introduce this first by way of our promo video of whole nation might see an might join in with us. so at this time the promo video. [inaudible] >> is it up

william barber and also with us, president of lake research partners, sulinda lake, a democratic partyential campaign. thank you for being with us. >> reverend barber, tell us about the campaign. >> thank you for having me. 135 million americans are poor or low wage. it is time to wake this sleepy giant. it is time to be a resserrection, not an insurrection. if you look at the numbers, almost a million poor voters did not vote in michigan, the margin of victory. in north carolina, over $900,000 didn't vote, just 18.4% would close the gap of the marge p of victory. in florida, over 2.8 million low wage workers didn't vote. 3.4% would close a margin of victory. so march 2nd, in 32 states and d.c. poor and low wage workers, people, religious leaders, others, are coming together to launch a massive 42 week campaign to reach 15 million poor and low wage infrequent voters, around an agenda, fighting for living wages, fighting for healthcare, and saying there are 52 million poor and low wage workers in this country who have not gotten a raise since 2009. 52 million. we saw 8 democrats and 50

them were people who were entirely unknown to me at the beginning, like william for bill, a haitian immigrant who was lincoln's barbernded up participating in some way in the creation of lincoln's beard, the most famous political symbol in american history. maryellen wise, a woman who dressed as a man and went into the south and said she thought for the union because and some number of women in fact, did, during the civil war. there was a cheyenne leader named lean bear who i had not third of -- heard of who warns lincoln about the dangers of the way that white settlers were acting and what is now the state of colorado. there were great leaders like frederick douglass, who in 1860 three after the emancipation proclamation, went to president lincoln in the white house. in august of that year -- excuse me, i am going to take a sip of water. host: i will remind folks you can send your questions and comments on twitter. we are at cspanwj. guest: that was smoothly done. host: host: frederick douglass said emancipation proclamation, great job, you were slow to get there, great job. it is great you are enlisting black soldi