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For your tireless solidarity with the Civil and Human Rights Movement! Rest in power!

© Carlos Raúl Dufflar On this sovereign space stood Resurrection City, the Poor People’s Campaign/ Campaña de la Gente Pobre asking permission from our Indigenous brothers and sisters to allow the first members to have arrived at the West Potomac Park, National Mall, to remain in the City. Six weeks of sun, rain, and mud.Continue reading “When the Blue Dragon Invaded Resurrection City, 6/23-24/1968”

LA CAMPAÑA DE LA GENTE POBRE – LA MARCHA PUERTORRIQUEÑA, 15 DE JUNIO DE 1968 © Carlos Raúl Dufflar & Ángel L. Martínez Ese sábado, 15 de junio de 1968,, 100 guaguas llegaron de Nueva York, Newark, Camden y Bridgeton, NJ, Filadelfia, Cleveland y Chicago. La voz del pueblo con su alma a la marchaContinue reading “The Poor People’s Campaign – La Marcha Puertorriqueña (Spanish & English)”

As the National Puerto Rican Day weekend has just concluded, let’s acknowledge the links between the present-day season of Puerto Rican parades and festivals and the original Poor People’s Campaign. Stay tuned for an account of Día de Los Puertorriqueños at Resurrection City (15 June 1968) here later this week!

© Carlos Raúl Dufflar From north to east, from east to west, the call that lifted the heart and soul de la Campaña de la Gente Pobre/Poor People’s Campaign. The seed that grew into a tree branch from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Indigenous, Black, Puerto Rican and Chicano, and Appalachians/poor White workers, we allContinue reading “Resurrection City, May 13, 1968”

© Carlos Raúl Dufflar On this Monday, 29th April 1968, the Committee of 100 had traveled from all around the country. The National Poor People’s Steering Committee of the Poor People’s Campaign, made up of Indigenous, Blacks, Puerto Ricans, Chicanos, and poor Appalachian Whites, arrived in Washington, DC, with our passion and demands. For aContinue reading “The Committee of 100”

But the gentry must come down and the poor shall wear the crown Stand up now, Diggers all” Barnstormer 1649, “March of the Levellers / The Diggers Song / The World Turned Upside Down” With acknowledgment to the Diggers, conrades of the original Poor People’s Campaign of 1968, and their spiritual ancestors, the original DiggersContinue reading “¡Happy International Workers’ Day (May Day)! ¡Feliz Día Internacional de Trabajo (1 de mayo)!”

January 6 is the day of the international cultural heritage called Día de Los Reyes -Three Kings Day. Poor People’s Embassy commemorates the struggles of the Puerto Rican people of El Barrio – East Harlem, New York, that to this day have made the annual commemoration of this holiday possible. Poor People’s Embassy also onContinue reading “¡Feliz Día de Los Reyes! ¡Happy Three Kings Day!”