Please note that there is no event in Hartford next week on June 4th. The next event will be on June 11th.
Have you heard of the Poor People’s Campaign? There is a national revival happening right now of Martin Luther King’s original Poor People’s Campaign. He was organizing this campaign when he was assassinated in 1968. He had a vision of dismantling systemic racism and taking on systemic poverty by demanding better wages and conditions for workers. Petitioning the government to create an Economic Bill of Rights to address poverty was also a key component of the campaign.
Martin Luther King envisioned a new March on Washington as part of this effort: “This march was to demand better jobs, better homes, better education—better lives than the ones they were living.” (Poor People’s Campaign website).
The current campaign is about creating a national moral revival movement to “shift the moral narrative”, and is focused on economic, racial, and ecological justice. Read about the fundamental principles here. There will be 40 days of moral direct actions, centered around a weekly event at CT State Veterans Memorial in front of the LOB, Hartford on Mondays at 3pm. There is no event on June 4th. The next event will be on June 11th.
The weekly themes are:
Week One (May 13-19): Someone’s Hurting Our People: Child Poverty, Women, and People with Disabilities. See details here.
Week Two (May 20-26): Linking Systemic Racism and Poverty: Voting Rights and Immigration
Week Three (May 27-June 2): The War Economy, Veterans, Education, and Our National Priorities Event is on Tuesday, May 29th at 3:00
Week Four (June 3-9): Ecological Devastation and Health No event
Week Five (June 10-16): Everybody’s Got the Right to Live: Jobs, Income, and Housing
Week Six (June 17-22): A New and Unsettling Force
June 23: Mass Rally in Washington, D. C., and Global Day of Solidarity
Will you be a part of this moral revival? The Collaborative Center for Justice plans to join our voices with the rallying calls of the campaign to advocate for justice! We hope you will join us on Mondays at 3:00p.m at the CT State Veterans Memorial in front of the LOB in Hartford. Next week- event will be on June 11th.
Media coverage- Hartford Courant
