At the Poor People’s Campaign Rally and March on the National Mall, thousands gathered to unite in the multi-coalitional struggle against the inequalities of 21st century America.
Thousands of founding members of the 2018 Poor People’s Campaign took a stand over the weekend against forty years of bipartisan neoliberal economics. Traveling from around the country, participants capped off forty days of civil disobedience with a rally at the U.S. Capitol to launch the revival of Martin Luther King Jr.’s last great campaign and deliver demands for addressing systemic inequality.
“It was a convergence of the marginalized,” said human rights organizer Yusef Jones about the mass rally held in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, June 22. The moist sticky weather didn’t dampen the crowd’s appetite to hear oratory, prayer, and song about the five enmeshed evils the campaign is up against: systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, ecological devastation, and America’s distorted national morality.
Jones, who’d traveled from Philadelphia, said he was “inspired and galvanized to help bring a revolution by virtue of the voting box.”
The plan is to mobilize the voting registration of the estimated 140 million poor or low-income Americans who are not in the system.
“We’re going to methodically register and re-register all the poor people where needed, so that all our votes count,” Jones said.
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