'People are tired of having to wash their babies in poisoned water,' said RevDrBarber.
The rally, which at its largest size reached over 100 people, was modeled on a"Moral Monday" blueprint that Barber was instrumental in creating. In 2013, Barber called on people in North Carolina, where he was then-president of the state's NAACP chapter, to protest a number of state government policies that he saw as immoral based on how they impacted low-income people, including voting rights and healthcare policies.
Barber praised Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba, but the elected Democratic leader didn't address the crowd because, as Barber put it,"we want politicians to come here and listen to what the people have to say and then go and do what the people want them to do."
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