New Poor People's Campaign announces 40 days of nonviolent direct action

[Donkees]

The plan is to “shift the moral narrative” said Rev. Dr. William Barber at the National Civil Rights Museum

By J. Dylan Sandifer

Excerpt:

The Poor People’s Campaign will launch a 40-day “fusion” of direct nonviolent action of the poor, clergy and advocates that will take place simultaneously starting May 14 in Washington D.C. and at least 30 states, said campaign co-chairs Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis.

Barber and Theoharis, surrounded by members of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival from across the country, made the announcement today at the National Civil Rights Museum, where the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King is being commemorated. King was organizing a massive Poor People’s campaign for economic justice before he was assassinated in Memphis in 1968.

Campaign officials will announce their demands on April 10 and release a study auditing poverty in America, The Souls of Poor Folk: Auditing America 50 Years After the Poor People’s Campaign Challenged Systemic Racism, Poverty, the War Economy/Militarism, Ecological Devastation and Our National Morality.

Barber said that 50 years after King’s assassination, systemic poverty, systemic racism, ecological devastation, the war economy, and Christian nationalism still persist and that the campaign intends to bring these “moral failures” back to the center of public discourse.

“Poverty is never at the center or even the margins of our national debate,” Barber said.


https://mlk50.com/new-poor-peoples-campaign-announces-40-days-of-nonviolent-direct-action-39280b19d727

[tazkcmo]

1. Speaking as one of the poor

They better bring food as much of my day is spent looking for it as well as a safe place to sleep.

[brooklynite]

2. Direct action targeted at whom?