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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One of my coworkers was saying I am really nice and she appreciates me. Then she said she told her husband about how nice I treat her at work and all of my danger sensors activated. Cause like, what even conversation is that.
Could be they just wanted to mention they were married so as not to give you the wrong impression? And a woman telling her partner someone is nice to them at work doesn’t seem too weird, a lot of people aren’t as nice as you probably.
I suppose that is a reasonable safety measure on her part then. I didn’t think about it that it could be like that
idk if i’m missing context but she probably just values you as a person and has a healthy enough relaysh with her partner that she can communicate that. are you afraid he’d get jealous or something?
In my head that is something that is said right after a fight. Or right before a fight.
that’s possible but as someone who jumps to worst possible scenarios/conclusions because of Bad Brain, i say from experience that strikes me as jumping to a worst possible conclusion. like i gush about my friends and comrades to people in my life including partners, it’s just cuz i like/love the ppl im gushing abt. but again i don’t know your work friends overall vibe, or the overall vibe of her relaysh.
also echoing wht other post said that she cld be signalling she’s unavailable but still values u as a work friend/friend in general, common way for people (especially women to men) to convey that.
What else she say about her husband? Could they be looking for a third?
You know, it was right after I moved something heavy for her. I have had worse weekends than being a bull.