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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  • JD_Vyvanse [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    honestly i’d just quit posting but then what would i do with my work downtime…

    honestly i’d just quit drinking but then what would i do with muy home downtime…

    the alienated fuckass’s dilemma

      • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        18 hours ago

        I watched LowTierGod yesterday and

        he talked gooning and reactionary thoughts

        He was watching a cutscene in expedition 33. He kept going "are these characters gonna fuck? This would be the perfect time to fuck. They’re in the woods killing people so obviously they’re going to have to fuck. Before he went on this tirade about gooning and how it’s “zesty.” So the only solution is to “self-goon” which is to get footage of yourself and someone else. So he concluded that you have until 21 to stop gooning, but CRITICALLY, if it were 5 years ago you’d only be good until 18 but nowadays women want “X, Y, Z”