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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pedantry alert
“Everything happens for a reason” - yes, because of the great chain of cause and effect back to the big bang, everything that happens now has an antecedent cause. But not everything happens for a teleological reason
He killed 155 billion people because hes 200000% hitler but decide to betray his fash friends purely at the end out of spite.
Absolute cinema
First fax machine invented: 1843
Abraham Lincoln died: 1865
Meiji restoration: 1868
Abraham Lincoln could have sent a fax to a samurai
I posted this in the wrong mega so reposting here because this is a legitimate question I have:
Is using “o” instead of “I” a gen z thing? Don’t ask me why but I need to know
Visited my grandma today and accompanied her to a meetup for elderly people organized by the local church, because my grandma was too anxious to go by herself. Since my grandpa died 6 months ago she’s been pretty isolated so we convinced her she needed to get out and meet new people. That all went pretty well, the people were super nice, my grandma immediately started chatting with some of the other women there and she seems pretty excited to go again.
But hoo boy, those old ladies were intense about their board games. Like, they were patient with my grandma and helped her out when she didn’t know the rules, but they were so fast?? I was 50 years younger than everyone else at the table but I struggled to keep up wtf.
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.
that Byron Buxton/Carlos Correa collision, ouch
with the Oswaldo Cabrera ankle fracture earlier there have been some gnarly baseball injuries lately
It’s amazing what a few beans do for my recovery game, dragon ball got it right with senzu bean I’ll say
finished Onikakushi-hen
this is paranoid hallucinations on Keiichi’s end, right? I think I clocked it at the takoyaki needle. Parallel to razor candy delusions.
My hanging question is why Keiichi’s death mirrors Tomitake’s. Current theory is mass psychogenic illness? Tomitake prompted Keiichi’s paranoia and then died like that, maybe Tomitake did something to Takano as Keiichi did to Rena and Mion? The superstitions around Watanagashi might be a self-reproducing phenomenon, though I don’t yet know if there’s fallout after the festival like that.
Going to alternate Umineko and Higurashi now, Umi E5 next
so I can stay ahead of Joseph Anderson and keep watching his streams of it without worrying about it influencing my read on the episodeAnyone else prefer playing diablo clones up to the end of main campaign and instead of doing endgame content just replaying with another class/build? Rpgs IMO atr mostly fun during the “journey” part, im addicted to the dopamine from leveling up
Are they randomly adding “talk about white genocide in south Africa” to the prompts?
Had a friend go on an all potato diet, which is like idk neutral I guess potatoes are good. But then the only way she’d prepare them is by baking them and it just seemed like such a waste.
Chat is there a worse way to prepare a potato
“Lol, we don’t really read resumes. Never your’s especially! It’s just toooo hard!”
Oh my God, can corpos stop pretending their gross and utter incompetence is cute and quirky? Gen Z can’t start their lives because we’re all forced to wait in line for porky to eventually decide to get off his lazy butt and maybe consider hiring.
posts in the mega about any form of media should require a “media posting” spoiler tag so i can skip over them more easily
media is cringe and harmful, seek to live an unmediated life
I was on such a high in life then hit after hit keeps coming. I had a great day then layoffs, then mangadex took down content. If the universe unfoils whenever I have a good day then I’ll stop having good days
