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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It is pretty wild to think about how production for this show goes; how can they spin up entire sets that faithfully imitate real locations for every episode? They must have been working very fast, even on top of how much money goes into it it's a real feat of budgeting it all out properly.
Not to mention, it seems pretty easy to picture how they got S1 to all add up into a sensible story arc, since Nathan himself directly controlled how the story goes. But in S2 a lot of it is just left up to how these pilots behave! I'm open to the idea that there is a lot more direction and manipulation via editing than you might initially assume, but as a whole I think it's really interesting how much Nathan is just finding the narrative rather than creating it.
Last episode's bit with the actors making out while their boyfriends watched through monitors really sold it. It's exploring the same idea as S2E2 where Nathan talks about how even when someone is being genuine, the genuineness is a performance. We're all performing all the time, trying to question what is reality and fiction is a fool's errand because society is already completely artificial and we're all fake. But if we go so far in that direction as to claim that all we do is present a fake version of ourselves 24/7, it does leave us with a really big question about feelings, because feelings are still real (think of what the actress said about doing love scenes and feeling real feelings during). So is there a kernel of "reality" inside that we're suppressing?
So many interesting philosophical questions!
I actually didn't know Nathan was involved with it so I hadn't put it on the priority watch list, but now I think I'll watch it after finals are over.