by Vote Common Good Team | Aug 29, 2020 | Press Coverage
“My feeling is that white people of faith will not only join you in this push but will join you in the march on the ballot box on election day. We are committed to bringing faith, hope and love, to bring about a change on election day, to remove the most radical...
by Vote Common Good Team | Aug 28, 2020 | Press Coverage
Doug Pagitt, executive director with Vote Common, Good – Walk the Walk – Faith Pilgrimage, speaks at the March on Washington, Friday Aug. 28, 2020, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, on the 57th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s...
by Vote Common Good Team | Aug 28, 2020 | Press Coverage
Melody Olson (R) joined other faith leaders from around the country in walking from Charlottesville to the March on Washington. “God is inviting us into this. He sees his children, the people of color that are literally dying, and wants us to not ignore that suffering...
by Vote Common Good Team | Aug 28, 2020 | Press Coverage
“I started this 130-mile journey 10 days ago. I hadn’t walked more than a mile at a time, and I just figured it was just going to be one step after another. I’m not an athlete. I didn’t train for this, but I think if we put one foot in front of the...
by Doug Pagitt | Aug 27, 2020 | Press Coverage, Voices
A polling station sits empty at a church in West Milton, Ohio, on March 16, 2020. Kyle Grillot—Bloomberg/Getty Images The following is written in TIME by Doug Pagitt, executive director of Vote Common Good and Al Sharpton, founder of the National Action Network: Dr....
by Vote Common Good Team | Aug 27, 2020 | Press Coverage
Walk the Walk 2020 event at Alexandria’s African American Heritage Park, August 27, 2020 “The walk is about racial reckoning, resolve and love. We’re here embodying our faith. I think that the political parties are all broken, and that what we are doing is appealing...
by Vote Common Good Team | Aug 25, 2020 | Press Coverage
People demonstrate for racial justice on Aug. 28, 1963, in the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington, D.C. Photo by Warren K. Leffler/LOC/Creative Commons “Supporters of Vote Common Good, an organization led by liberal-leaning evangelicals,...
by Vote Common Good Team | Aug 25, 2020 | Press Coverage
Demonstrators march north on the Warrenton Eastern Bypass, part of the “Walk the Walk” faith leaders’ march for racial justice set to conclude Friday in Washington, D.C. Times Staff Photo/Coy Ferrell “The reason we are walking on the street is because we are trying to...
