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.
it is may 15 and stalin saved the world from fascism
mental health stuff/venting cw: depression, suicide, alcoholism
I really hate the feeling of there being nowhere to go or turn to, and just somehow have to figure it out on my own. Especially in regards to mental health shit because it doesn’t help I live somewhere where mental health shit just poorly funded or hardly exists or just there to punish you. and then it no big surprise where in the state I live has high suicide rates.
and that overlooking the mistrust I have for any mental health service after having a psychiatrist call the police on me and sic them, along with putting me in thousands of medical debt. just fucked on that end I guess. there is no help, I know that now. I feel naive for ever thinking that there ever was when there isn’t.
but besides that. it the fact there hardly any fucking thing to do here besides drinking or cowboy shit. it really speaks a lot how when I got involuntary detained like five years ago, a lot of the resources the psych ward people gave me was in the fucking next state over, in another city. and speaks a lot how people are constantly leaving. worst part is, this place just also attracts a bunch of fascists, white supremacists and other ilk. good thing the shitty weather scares them off from fully coming here. but besides all that, if there was more to do here, more community stuff, more people, more things, I think things would be okay, I’d be okay. but there hardly is.
I fucking hate it here, and it would be nice to leave, and to find other places to do things, but there hardly any fucking thing to do here. it just empty. yet at the same time I can’t leave, since I also don’t want to leave my family here to, like my dad or grandma. doesn’t help that when my mom died a few years ago, it feels like I lost more than her. and at the same time I don’t want to leave my dad either, since he already loss a lot to. and I also just don’t want him to drink himself to death, alone, but I know that on him to stop drinking. but I don’t want to leave him. so I don’t. but at the same time I do want to get away from everything and just leave, like when like when I accidentally step in his puke because he had too much one night. or when he in a very negative mood that it best to just avoid him. or the social isolation and alienation here that slowly wears you down. Also the fact that I don’t have a life here, I don’t have a future here. There is no future here and there never will be.
I don’t know, I spent last night before sleeping, crying for like ten minutes while just repeating to myself to just make it end, and then did it again not too long today for like twenty minutes ago while crying. I don’t know what to do, I just don’t want this to keep going on.
I’m still hoping for the weather to improve that maybe when things are all nice and warm fully, I can get outside more like I started to slowly been doing again since the cold season starting to come to an end. and maybe I could walk around, find stuff, more importantly, find others, and find things to do. but for now, I can’t stand this right now. especially while feeling like a sitting duck here at times.
Thought I never thought would enter my mind.
Wow, I get how Kishibe felt when Makima had him train/mentor Power and Denji.
Kinda funny even after GW add evil elements to Tau, the fact that the Tau rebels doesnt instantly join chaos makes it seem like the Tau are ultimately good at their heart while humans are doomed to be evil.
The space dwarfs are the true succesors of humanity.
Like every single person on the askbrits sub is an unashamed nazi
so once ur ready to change shit abt yourself & u’ve found someone cool and compatible is the secret to unlearning avoidant/anxious avoidant type bullshit just kind of brute forcing it? i.e. just like Doing The Thing of direct-but-caring-and-charitable communication and sitting with the Sudden Fear Chemical Feelings til they pass over and over and over until your brain unlearns its bad habits?
tryna do that rn and it’s kinda ass but it’s also kinda lit at the same time, very dialectics
pedantry alert
“Everything happens for a reason” - yes, because of the great chain of cause and effect back to the big bang, everything that happens now has an antecedent cause. But not everything happens for a teleological reason
Into the Breach has been out for a while, there’s gotta be some dope-ass mods for that game by now, right?
First fax machine invented: 1843
Abraham Lincoln died: 1865
Meiji restoration: 1868
Abraham Lincoln could have sent a fax to a samurai
He killed 155 billion people because hes 200000% hitler but decide to betray his fash friends purely at the end out of spite.
Absolute cinema
Visited my grandma today and accompanied her to a meetup for elderly people organized by the local church, because my grandma was too anxious to go by herself. Since my grandpa died 6 months ago she’s been pretty isolated so we convinced her she needed to get out and meet new people. That all went pretty well, the people were super nice, my grandma immediately started chatting with some of the other women there and she seems pretty excited to go again.
But hoo boy, those old ladies were intense about their board games. Like, they were patient with my grandma and helped her out when she didn’t know the rules, but they were so fast?? I was 50 years younger than everyone else at the table but I struggled to keep up wtf.
I posted this in the wrong mega so reposting here because this is a legitimate question I have:
Is using “o” instead of “I” a gen z thing? Don’t ask me why but I need to know
i never want to dump on other working class ppl for getting the bag in the most tolerable way possible, but man i envy WFH mfs sometimes. my job actually has to be on site for logistical reasons but there’s also a lot of downtime, if only i could use that downtime to go for a walk, read, write, play a game (anything fun &/or enriching rlly) rather than internet drift. one of the big barriers in the way of my internet detox/moderation efforts.
