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Spare Change News
April 24, 2018
Before Martin Luther King's tragic death 50 years ago this month, he had begun organizing what he would call the Poor People's Campaign. The focus was to bring economic justice to all poor people regardless of their race. Though the campaign continued after King's death, it never had the success heÃâà...
The Eagle
April 24, 2018
In 1968, D.C. was also home to the Poor People's Campaign. This campaign, planned by Dr. King, brought around 3,000 people to not only protest but to live on the Washington Mall in Resurrection City. The Poor People's Campaign protested nationwide economic disparities. At the time, 25 million peopleÃâà...
WTOP
April 24, 2018
Cliff Johnson, who directs the Ole Miss branch of Chicago-based MacArthur, said he hopes the information will show the true extent of long pretrial jail stays in Mississippi and bolster efforts to lessen them. MacArthur has repeatedly sued cities and counties in Mississippi for jailing poor people who can'tÃâà...
WTVA
April 24, 2018
MacArthur has repeatedly sued cities and counties in Mississippi for jailing poor people who can't afford to pay bail or fines. Data was nearly impossible to compile until last July, when the state Supreme Court, lobbied by the MacArthur center, ordered sheriff's offices to provide it. The numbers reinforceÃâà...
The Daily Gazette
April 23, 2018
SARATOGA SPRINGS — Presbyterian-New England Congregational Church held a community meeting on Sunday for those looking to get involved in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Poor People's Campaign. Pastor Kate Forer said her congregation teamed up with the state Labor-Religion Coalition of NewÃâà...
Carroll County Times
April 22, 2018
King, along with Ralph Abernathy, of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was instrumental in planning a Poor People's Campaign, which would make use of non-violent civil disobedience — thousands of the poor traveling to Washington, D.C. — to turn the focus of the U.S. government towardÃâà...
Netralnews
April 21, 2018
JAKARTA, NNC - In the framework of Kartini Day, as many as 1,000 Indonesian women from various groups and organizations joined in Kota Tua (Old Town), Jakarta, to declare themselves to support the #RokokHarusMahal (#CigarettesMustbeExpensive) movement. Together, they wrote letters to theirÃâà...
The Storm Lake Times
April 20, 2018
Oh, there must be, because some members of Congress believe unworthy people are receiving food intended for poor people. Why else would Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives be advocating work requirements on the 42 million people in the nation who receive food stamps? Do theyÃâà...
Splinter (blog)
April 18, 2018
Did you know that poor people who receive health care through Medicaid routinely get stripped of their coverage if they end up in jail—even if they haven't been convicted of a crime? Neither did I ... Many more poor people end up stuck in pretrial detention because they are unable to make bail. We have aÃâà...
Memphis Flyer (blog)
April 18, 2018
Dr. King and the 1968 Poor People's Campaign declared that silence was betrayal, we are coming together to break the silence and tell the truth about the interlocking evils of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, the war economy and our distorted moral narrative,” the moral agenda reads.
Quartz
April 12, 2018
Solutions to poverty and social exclusion tend to focus largely on national social and economic policies and the monitoring of national poverty indicators. Often missing from these conversations, but equally important, is the need for a perspective that privileges the knowledge, experience, capacities,Ãâà...
Inequality.org
April 11, 2018
Claudia De la Cruz was speaking at an April 10 press briefing in Washington, D.C. on behalf of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. Inspired by a similar 1968 initiative led by Dr. Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders, the campaign aims to lift up the voices of people likeÃâà...
TheGrio (blog)
April 11, 2018
Donald Trump thegrio.com MANCHESTER, NH - MARCH 19: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to supporters and local politicians at an event at Manchester Community College on March 19, 2018 in Manchester, New Hampshire. The president addressed the ongoing opioid crisis which has had aÃâà...
ThinkProgress
April 11, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference organized thousands of Americans in an anti-poverty effort popularly known as the Poor People's Campaign, a group of progressives want to revive the effort on the heels of a sweeping newÃâà...
Williamson Daily News
April 11, 2018
In this March 30, 2018 frame from video provided by the West Virginia Poor People's Campaign, Amy Jo Hutchison speaks during a meeting of the Poor People's Campaign, where she is a chair, in South Charleston, W.Va. She says people perceive her as "solidly middle class" but that she gets governmentÃâà...
Pulse Nigeria
April 11, 2018
Pope Francis says helping poor people is just as important as fighting abortion. He made this comparison in his apostolic exhortation released on Monday, April 9, 2018. The document is called “Gaudete et Exsultate” (Rejoice and Be Glad). In it, he warned people to stop prioritizing certain doctrines likeÃâà...
Glens Falls Post-Star
April 11, 2018
“This is a moment in time you will be talking about to your grandchildren,” said June Ragnacci, Poor People's Campaign local organizer, to a group of about 30 on Tuesday night at St. Joseph's Church in Fort Edward. “We are standing in the eye of the storm and the storm is poverty. Help me rebuild thisÃâà...
Common Dreams
April 11, 2018
Titled the "Declaration of Fundamental Rights and Poor People's Moral Agenda," the document argues—as Dr. King did—that the crises of poverty, militarism, racism, and environmental degradation are interconnected and that all must be confronted if justice for the disenfranchised is to be achieved.
People's World
April 10, 2018
The Poor People's Campaign already has local organizing committees in states ranging from Alabama through New York and Washington state. Though speakers took an occasional shot at politicians, including President Donald Trump, they blamed the nation's lack of a moral compass on both parties.
Quartz
April 4, 2018
In the weeks leading up to his assassination 50 years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was preparing for his greatest demonstration yet. The Poor People's Campaign—King's coalition across racial groups, united in their fight to end poverty— aimed to recruit over 1 million people to occupy the NationalÃâà...
Labor Notes
April 3, 2018
The Poor People's Campaign was born out of the Moral Mondays movement in North Carolina, a clergy-led drive that beginning in 2013 united faith leaders, union members, LGBT activists, and immigrant rights advocates in mass marches and civil disobedience. Their goals were broad because aÃâà...
News & Observer
April 3, 2018
On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, while fighting for a 10-cent wage increase for garbage workers. These efforts by King were part of a broader and more sustained initiative known as the Poor People's Campaign. King was working to broaden the scope of the civil rightsÃâà...
Xinhua
March 27, 2018
There are more than 32,000 poor people living in Lueyang, while cooperation with Alibaba is expected to lift at least 60 percent of them out of poverty, Yang added. Alibaba established a poverty alleviation fund in December 2017 and plans to invest 10 billion yuan in five years to help more people escapeÃâà...
Times LIVE
March 27, 2018
The president of Mamelodi Sundowns football club‚ Patrice Motsepe‚ has urged South Africans to do something with the conditions that poor people face across the land. “Many of our people have no jobs. Many of our people go to bed at night without food. Many of our young children go to high school‚Ãâà...
TalkPoverty
March 27, 2018
WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 14: Seema Verma (R) speaks during a swearing-in ceremony, officiated by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence (L), in the Vice President's ceremonial office at Eisenhower Executive Building March 14, 2017 in Washington, DC. Verma has been sworn in to be the administrator ofÃâà...
San Francisco Bay View
March 27, 2018
If you have a high-profile lawyer with powerful friends and you're tortured while on death row in Alabama, everyone in the nation not only knows about it – overwhelmingly, especially in liberal, progressive, civilized circles of thought and news – they're righteously appalled. But poor death row inmates inÃâà...
Kiowa County Press
March 26, 2018
Michael Sheen has just launched the End High Cost Credit Alliance. The actor has supported various charitable causes over the years and is now leading this effort to support alternatives to high cost credit which has increased in recent years, not least in his home town of Port Talbot. The alliance wasÃâà...
Martinsville Bulletin
March 25, 2018
... Western countries such as ours, the environmental destruction of its natural resources — it is deeply troubling to see fellow Americans openly argue on social media that (whether or not the president actually made his original comments) it is OK to describe a desperately poor people's home in such terms.
Foster's Daily Democrat
March 23, 2018
Activists from the greater Seacoast area gathered Thursday night in the cafeteria of the McConnell Center to meet each other, learn songs, learn more about the Poor People's Campaign and brainstorm potential non-violent direct action protests to engage in later this spring. The New Hampshire chapter ofÃâà...
The Conversation US
March 22, 2018
Audrey M Provenzano does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
Smoky Mountain News
March 22, 2018
On March 5 in Waynesville's Folkmoot Friendship Center, several progressive groups gathered for the Poor People's Campaign Town Hall, meant to draw awareness to the interconnectedness of these issues, according Chelsea White, an organizer with the event's sponsor, Down Home North Carolina.
Foster's Daily Democrat
March 21, 2018
Maggie Fogarty, co-director of American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) NH Program, is one of the organizers of a meeting in Dover at the McConnell Center on Thursday that aims to bring together area activists on how to explore ways to engage in the NH Poor People's Campaign.
KJZZ
March 21, 2018
Data is being used in lots of places and in lots of ways, from the grocery store to our jobs. And some research has raised concerns that our data is being used against us. Virginia Eubanks argues one of those ways data is being used is not beneficial to low-income Americans. She's an associate professor ofÃâà...
The Conversation UK
March 21, 2018
Karen Rowlingson has received funding from the Friends Provident Foundation for research on financial inclusion and the Arts & Humanities Research Council for research on responsible lending. She is a member of the End High Cost Credit Alliance and the Child Poverty Action Group.
The Independent
March 21, 2018
Poor people are being penalised for borrowing money to make ends meet – the system is stacked against them. Those on the lowest incomes pay the most to borrow money even where they are borrowing for essentials. This is compared to those on higher incomes who can generally borrow at lower ratesÃâà...
nwitimes.com
March 16, 2018
Clifford Ramer, an East Chicago resident, rallies with dozens of others Thursday night in East Chicago to decry systemic racism and kick off a regional and statewide Poor People's Campaign. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. started the first Poor People's Campaign in 1968 before his assassination.
Memphis Flyer (blog)
March 15, 2018
The Memphis Theological Seminary in partnership with the Tennessee Poor People's Campaign announced Thursday a new effort to “abolish poverty” ... along with the Poor People's Campaign will establish the Truth Commission, as a part of the new national Poor People's Campaign, A National all for aÃâà...
The Ithacan
March 15, 2018
This was the conclusion to The Poor People's Campaign at Ithaca College's first campus-wide event, open to the college and surrounding community. The event was an introductory meeting and featured a screening of the documentary “At the River I Stand.” The Poor People's Campaign: A National Call forÃâà...
The Guardian
March 15, 2018
In early 2016 I set out to spend six months working in low-paid jobs around the country. At that time, there was a great deal of optimism swilling around about Britain's record employment levels. Yet trends such as the precipitous growth of zero-hours contracts after the 2008 recession suggested that much ofÃâà...
News & Observer
March 15, 2018
Against this already-transgressing backdrop, North Carolina has launched the nation's boldest war against poor people — moving from ignoring the impoverished to actually targeting them. In the last six years, the General Assembly radically reduced access for low income people to health care,Ãâà...
Truth-Out
March 14, 2018
There's no question that the Fight for $15 has been transformative: In the last five years, more than 19 million US workers have won a total of $62 billion in raises. In Ontario, Canada, another 1.7 million workers just saw pay boosts of up to 21 percent. That's great, but consider this: Trump's December tax billÃâà...
Open Democracy
March 14, 2018
Examining the reasons behind the failure of Johnson's Great Society and how King's Poor People's Campaign embodied a different vision provides important historical context that is often omitted from the narrative surrounding the Civil Rights Movement. It also puts the contemporary Poor People'sÃâà...
The Guardian
March 14, 2018
'Cuts will further disadvantage people with disabilities, certain ethnic groups, women and lone parents.' Photograph: Dan Atkin/Alamy. On Tuesday, the chancellor announced that the government's debt would start to fall relative to GDP – a target originally set by George Osborne in 2010. Back then, theÃâà...
Jacobin magazine
March 13, 2018
Many other scholars make similar arguments, attributing economic inequality to the voting behavior and attitudes of the poor. Yale political scientist Ian Shapiro, for instance, claims that most poor people do not want the wealthy to have a higher tax bill because they compare themselves not to the rich but toÃâà...
ABC15 Arizona
March 8, 2018
Does being poor lead to poor decisions? That's the question at the heart of much of the work of University of Chicago's Anuj Shah for the past five years. "People start from the assumption that there must be a reason that some people are wealthy and some people are poor. And so when they look atÃâà...
Law360
March 8, 2018
Law360 (March 8, 2018, 3:22 PM EST) -- The Trump administration's decisions to dial back net neutrality safeguards, Lifeline subsidies and by-the-minute prison phone call rate limits are disadvantaging poor and minority communities, Democratic FCC commissioners Mignon Clyburn and Jessica Rosenworcel saidÃâà...
Greater Kashmir
March 8, 2018
Affordable housing may be defined as economic potential of individuals to buy a cemented house with inbuilt kitchen, toilet etc., along with supply of electricity and drinking water. Considering the parameters of affordable housing, that price of housing units should be less than four times to annual income ofÃâà...
Fast Company
March 8, 2018
FCC chairman Ajit Pai says he wants to help poor people. “I have often said that my highest priority as chairman is closing the digital divide–the gap between those who have access to next-generation technologies and those who don't,” he told a Senate committee in September when talking about reformsÃâà...
The Mountaineer
March 8, 2018
The Poor People's Campaign, to me, isn't about one issue but it's about all of these subjects, how they connect, and how they are shared between us," Wilds said. "Housing, health care, being poor, getting the services that we need — it's all connected. I think it's possible for us to fix all of these problemsÃâà...
Truth-Out
March 7, 2018
The Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, co-chair of the recently launched Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, one of three kids in a family she describes as deeply committed to improving life for the excluded and marginalized. South African ArchbishopÃâà...
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