The Reverend William Barber Gerry Broome/AP Photo via Mother Jones |
Not much is simple for Barber lately. For more than 100 Mondays, he and thousands of others from around the state and country—collectively known as the Forward Together Movement—have protested what they see as the state’s unjust and extreme policies, pushing back against the GOP-controlled legislature’s moves to reject Medicaid expansion, cut education and impose strict voting rules that could affect thousands of citizens.