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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i never want to dump on other working class ppl for getting the bag in the most tolerable way possible, but man i envy WFH mfs sometimes. my job actually has to be on site for logistical reasons but there's also a lot of downtime, if only i could use that downtime to go for a walk, read, write, play a game (anything fun &/or enriching rlly) rather than internet drift. one of the big barriers in the way of my internet detox/moderation efforts.
I struggle with this so much, the people who can work from home at my job have lighter schedules and dont have to help with tasks that keep the lab running and get paid more
Most of them are nice though so it's hard to actually feel resentful
I wfh but its gig based so its a special type of hell. A 30 minute break "costs" me 30 minutes of wages. I can't complain to much though but I am really hoping to have a salaried position soon, which will be an onsite job
oof yeah that sounds really ass, i had in mind more stable employment WFH and idt i'd trade what i have rn for what u outlined above. my ex partner also used to WFH but the corpo she worked for worked her to the bone and drained her dry, would also prefer my current job over that. but sometimes i look at my tech project manager/email job friends and i can't help but be like
even though they're just tryna live their lives and they arent doing anything wrong lol
Yeah, same. I'm on site every work day just in case, but often there's only like one half hour thing I need to be here for, or literally nothing.
Meanwhile my roommate full time wfh playing games half the time he's on the clock, wakes up 5 minutes before his shift and rolls out of bed to clock in. Can't help but be a bit jealous.