Since the destruction of Resurrection City and the forcible removal of the Poor People’s Campaign (PPC) from Washington, DC, sent back home from state violence against poor people. We were conscious and not fooled by the lies of LBJ and his racist Dixiecrat Democratic Party and Republican Party alliance.
We returned to our neighborhoods as organizers for alternative political parties like the Peace and Freedom Party, the Freedom and Peace Party, progressive parties, and Eugene McCarthy, peace candidate for President to end the War in Vietnam.
Dick Gregory (FPP) and Eldridge Cleaver (PFP) were candidates for President, and for the first time, we have a woman running for President, Charlene Mitchell. The Youth International Party had a pig as a candidate for President.
About a month later, the PPC went to Chicago for the 1968 Democratic National Convention for the nomination of Hubert Humphrey for President, marching with the demands for a Poor People’s Agenda, and was met with brutal violence by the police of Democratic machine mayor Richard Daley.
We also went to Miami for the Republican Party Convention in Miami.with the Mule Train. Bruta violence was laid upon the marchers and the PPC, with two dead, as Richard Nixon was the Republican candidate.
We were not party hacks or foot soldiers of any party machine, missionaries, poverty pimps, or warmongers. We were beautiful poor people with the Economic Bill of Rights, as we mark 55 years that the bill was proclaimed.
(to be continued)
Poor People’s Embassy - Embajada de la Gente Pobre 