Tag: Poor People’s campaign
‘Stay alive, stay at home, organize’: Rev. Barber sets June 20...
“We’re not going to just die. We’re going to stand up and fight back.”
Dr. King’s radical revolution of values
Dr. King’s spirit lives on in the new Poor People’s Campaign, and in every place radicals gather to change the world.
A ‘Poor People’s Moral Budget’ because ‘everybody has the right to...
"For too long, we have turned to those with wealth and power to solve our most pressing social problems."
50 years after MLK’s Poor People’s Campaign, 2,500+ arrested over 6...
"We’ve invited the people to speak for themselves, because I think it’s time for a revolution."
‘Take away our poverty, not our children!:’ Poor People’s Campaign caps...
"We are sick, we are homeless, we are separated from our families, and we will keep coming back until everyone has housing, voting rights, clean water, peace, and justice!"
Progressive Briefing for Monday, June 25, 2018
Poor People's Campaign marches on Washington, Saudi Arabia lifts the ban on women driving, Sarah Huckabee Sanders is kicked out of a restaurant, and more.
Progressive Briefing for Monday, June 18, 2018
Separating families at the border, the Poor People's Campaign, Republicans and the NRA fight against gun regulations, and more.
Today’s Poor People’s Campaign: Too important not to criticize
Provided, of course, today’s PPC attacks the bipartisan disease.
Political dynamite: Poor People’s Campaign and the movement for a People’s...
Reading the political tea leaves is a far different task from making political tea.
Fight for $15 plans massive workers’ strike
"There's no separation between the moral battle for voting rights and participation in democracy and the moral battle against systemic poverty. Those battles go together."
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10 things you need to know to stop a coup
Because the best way to stop a coup is to deter it.
The (flawed) case against Julian Assange
The many mainstream journalists cheering on his extradition may come to regret in the future when the American government comes for them or their sources.
A new Supreme Court nominee before the election may spark a crisis of legitimacy
If the institutions of government are deemed illegitimate, preserving democracy may well be left to the people demanding justice.
Trump’s EPA dismisses dangers of chlorpyrifos on children’s brain downplaying agency’s own findings
“The EPA is ignoring decades of science by leading universities and in doing so, it's neglecting its duty to protect children from pesticides.”
We’ve got our own reasons to elect Biden — and he isn’t one of...
With so much at stake Autumn 2020 is a time when people have the decisive opportunity to prevent the consolidation of illegitimate power by an authoritarian regime.