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Related: About this forum"Stop the War! Feed the Poor!": March by Poor People's Campaign Ends With Arrests in DC
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As part of the final week of Poor People's Campaign demonstrations leading up to the movement's Mass Rally and Moral Revival in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, hundreds of protesters joined together in chants and songs as they marched to and then were arrested outside of the U.S. Capitol Building on Thursday.
Organized by Rev. Drs. William Barber and Liz Theoharis, the movement takes inspiration from a campaign of the same name launched 50 years ago by Martin Luther King, Jr. Through a series of nationwide demonstrations in recent weeks, supporters have called for an immediate end to "systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, ecological devastation, and the nation's distorted morality."
Organized by Rev. Drs. William Barber and Liz Theoharis, the movement takes inspiration from a campaign of the same name launched 50 years ago by Martin Luther King, Jr. Through a series of nationwide demonstrations in recent weeks, supporters have called for an immediate end to "systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, ecological devastation, and the nation's distorted morality."
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/21/stop-war-feed-poor-march-poor-peoples-campaign-ends-arrests-dc?
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"Stop the War! Feed the Poor!": March by Poor People's Campaign Ends With Arrests in DC (Original Post)
guillaumeb
Jun 2018
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trotsky
(49,533 posts)1. I hope their campaign succeeds in changing the minds of other Christians.
I hope that we stop basing public policy on religion, though.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)2. I know, right?
Religious people tell other religious people to stop killing and starving people. Incontrovertible evidence of religion's inherent goodness!
Mariana
(14,863 posts)3. Trotsky, you know we're supposed to ignore the fact
that it is primarily Christians who are perpetrating the "systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, ecological devastation, and the nation's distorted morality" opposed by Rev. Barber and his friends.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)4. Well you know...
they aren't real Christians.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)5. We agree on both points. eom