Call for a Moral Revolution of Values

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Sunday April 03, 2016 · 8:05 AM PDT

2016/04/03 · 08:05

Moral revolution tour graphic — The Revival: Time for a Moral Revolution of Values

Today is the kickoff day for the launch of “The Revival: Time for a Moral Revolution of Values”, a national revival tour to redefine morality in American politics.

The event is being held at Riverside Church in New York City at 3PM and will be live-streamed.

Rev. William Barber II, Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr, Rev. Traci Blackmon, and Sister Simone Campbell are spearheading the tour, which, on the first leg will engage people in 15 states, including North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, Texas, Oklahoma, and Washington DC.

Press release:

Faith and moral leaders, scholars declare racism, poverty, inequality, denial of health care, voter suppression, warmongering, environmental abuse, attacks on equal protection under the law, and xenophobia immoral.

Repairers of the Breach

RALEIGH, NC – The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, architect of the transformative Moral Monday Movement and founder of Repairers of the Breach, Senior Pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church Disciples of Christ and the Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr, Senior Minister Emeritus of The Riverside Church, president of Healing of the Nations Ministries and National Minister for the Drum Major Institute, today announced the launch of The Revival: Time for a Moral Revolution of Values that will champion the sacred values of love, justice, and mercy in the public square at a time when they are needed more than ever.

Reverends Barber and Forbes have been invited by local civil rights and moral leaders to come to their cities to conduct revival meetings and services. They will be joined by other national social justice activists who bring the same deep moral analysis of the nation’s problems including the Rev. Traci Blackmon, acting Executive Minister of the UCC's Justice and Witness Ministries, and Sister Simone Campbell, Director of the Catholic social justice lobby NETWORK in Washington, DC.

Sponsored by Repairers of the Breach, Healing of the Nations Ministries and Drum Major Institute, the tour starts at The Riverside Church in New York City on Sunday, April 3 at 3:00 p.m. EST. It will hold meetings and services in Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Ohio, Oklahoma and Virginia through December of 2016 and continue on through 2017. The first Revival will be in Raleigh, NC on Monday, April 4, the anniversary of Dr. King’s historic sermon at Riverside —“A Time to Break the Silence”—in 1967, and his assassination in Memphis one year later—just 48 years ago.

The press conference:

Vimeo Video

March 28th, 2016 - Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II and Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr. discuss the nationwide 2016 Repairers of the Breach "Revival: Time for a Moral Revolution of Values" tour with launch dates starting in New York City on April 3rd and Raleigh, North Carolina on April 4th.

The April 4th event in Raleigh is being held on the anniversary of the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 at Temple Beth Or, at 6:30 PM.

The revolution tour is coming — get on board!

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