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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  • TankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Had a comment removed on a federated comm (for “fascist Russian propaganda”) because I said that Ukrainians want peace and should have their voices heard by holding elections once again. shrug-outta-hecks

  • Beetle [hy/hym]@hexbear.netEnglish
    13·
    3 days ago

    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.

  • kittin [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    17·
    3 days ago

    First fax machine invented: 1843

    Abraham Lincoln died: 1865

    Meiji restoration: 1868

    Abraham Lincoln could have sent a fax to a samurai

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    8·
    3 days ago

    Pointing out to people in The Rehearsal Subreddit that the fact thst a pilot can end a co-pilot’a career fundamentally means that there can never be honest and open communication on the cockpit no matter what other stuff is done was met with good reception. I even got into Marxism about it openly and it’s going well

  • Comrade_Mushroom [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    I have developed a floater directly in the middle of my vision in my right eye

    it’s like there’s constantly a pixel burned out for a third of a second any time I look at any mildly bright thing

    please fucking kill me

  • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    10·
    3 days ago

    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.

  • TerminalEncounter [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 days ago
    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

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 days ago

    “Lol, we don’t really read resumes. Never your’s especially! It’s just toooo hard!”

    Oh my God, can corpos stop pretending their gross and utter incompetence is cute and quirky? Gen Z can’t start their lives because we’re all forced to wait in line for porky to eventually decide to get off his lazy butt and maybe consider hiring.