The Poor People’s Campaign was a march on Washington D.C. to gain economic justice for poor people in the United States that began on this day in 1968, just one month after the assassination of one of its key organizers, MLK Jr.
The protest was also organized by Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and carried out under the leadership of Ralph Abernathy in the wake of King’s assassination.
After presenting an organized set of demands to Congress and executive agencies, participants set up a 3,000-person protest camp on the Washington Mall, where they stayed for six weeks in the spring of 1968.
Among those demands was a proposal for an “economic bill of rights” that included a commitment to full employment, a guaranteed annual income measure, and more low-income housing for poor Americans of all races.
"I think it is necessary for us to realize that we have moved from the era of civil rights to the era of human rights…
When we see that there must be a radical redistribution of economic and political power, then we see that for the last twelve years we have been in a reform movement…
That after Selma and the Voting Rights Bill, we moved into a new era, which must be an era of revolution…"
-MLK Jr., in a 1967 planning meeting
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Oh noes, someone dropped Western chauvinism in my local activist movement. I don’t get how supposed anticapitalists still believe in so called ‘Western values’.
They must not have a space like hexbear to deprogram them. Joining hexbear was great for my political development. Before I only read the news from Western mainstream media and hexbear basically showed me a lot of things that were omitted in the stories from these media.
Whoah that’s wild - I guess cause I’ve been here since r/cth I assumed everybody here were only here because they were already deprogammed. I didn’t know anyone got actively converted on these boards but glad to hear it!
Yeah for sure. But tbh deprogramming me was very easy because I was very open to the message, I just hadn’t encountered it before anywhere else. I didn’t first join hexbear when I came to lemmy, I started at a feddit instance and saw .worlders talking about the scary hexbear tankies and my immediate thought was that those hexbears sound pretty cool if they can scare libs so badly.
Then I read some stuff here about China and the Ukraine war that I didn’t know yet and it made sense that the media would lie about ‘enemy states’. Before I did not understand geopolitics at all because countries like China, Russia and Iran being inherently evil just didn’t make sense to me. Shouts outs to the news mega for educating me (I still have lots to learn).
Well glad to have you on board comrade!