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Rev. William Barber to join ‘Operation Liberty’ in California
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QCity Metro
Bishop William Barber II is taking his social justice movement to California on Saturday to show support for immigrant families.
Operation Liberty will deploy “rapid-response vehicles with cameras and trained volunteers and clergy leaders to document ICE raids, detentions, and family separations in real time,” according to Repairers of the Breach, an organization he cofounded to advocate for poor people.
Barber, a North Carolina native, recently held an online event marking the Sept. 15, 1963, bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, a hate crime that claimed the lives of four Black girls.
In an interview with NPR, Barber condemned the killing of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk but said the nation also must be free to debate where a person “may have stood in the public square and the issues.”This summer, Barber preached a series of sermons at First Baptist Church-West in Charlotte, where he condemned Republican legislation that will slash funding for food stamps, Medicaid and other social programs for the poor.
He also called on people of faith to stand against hate.
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