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 asContinue reading “The True Narrative of the Poor People’s Campaign of 1968”
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Original Poor People’s Campaign on Elections
The original Poor People’s Campaign supported independent and anti-war political campaigns. Dick Gregory, the Freedom and Peace Party candidate for US president in 1968 and a tireless ally of PPC and the Fishing Rights Movement of the American Indians of the Pacific Northwest, was warmly welcomed at Resurrection City. Also, anti-war Democratic nominee Eugene McCarthyContinue reading “Original Poor People’s Campaign on Elections”
Honoring the Women who Led the Way to Resurrection City! Mothers’ Day March poem by Carlos Raúl Dufflar
Mothers’ Day March, May 12, 1968 © Carlos Raúl Dufflar On this Sunday, Mothers’ Day, May the 12th, 1968, the Poor People’s Campaign was opened with the National Welfare Rights Organization, which taught Martin Luther King Jr. to learn and understand the daily struggles of poor mothers to feed their children food on the table ratherContinue reading “Honoring the Women who Led the Way to Resurrection City! Mothers’ Day March poem by Carlos Raúl Dufflar”
Día de los Puertorriqueños
As the season of Puerto Rican parades and festivals, remember the Día de los Puertorriqueños gathering at Resurrection City, the first of its in kind in Washington, DC, on this day, June 15, 1968, organized by Gilberto Gerena Valentín.
Happy May Day! ¡Feliz 1 de mayo!
Greetings from Poor People’s Embassy on International Workers Day! To another year of struggle of workers all around the world for the right to dignity, the right to justice, and the right to live. “Now look a-here, Congress This is a brand new day No more full-time work No more part-time pay.” From ”Everybody’s GotContinue reading “Happy May Day! ¡Feliz 1 de mayo!”
Day of the Landless
The Story of the original Poor People’s Campaign: 4 December 1967
This day marks the founding of the original Poor People’s Campaign in 1967. We must always remember their courage and sacrifice. Soldiers of the civil and human rights movements and movements of Indigenous, Puerto Ricans, Appalachians, and Chicanas/os were at the core of the struggle in this new ”Washington Campaign.”* * Martin Luther King, Jr.,Continue reading “The Story of the original Poor People’s Campaign: 4 December 1967”
The Diggers at Resurrection City, May 19, 1968
© Carlos Raúl Dufflar God’s Eye Bakery, Free Bread Forever Yes, Spring brought a new beginning in our life In the Poor People’s Campaign Unity was the light that shined when I was young A citizen of the City of Hope We have come from all over the country With nine Caravans into Resurrection CityContinue reading “The Diggers at Resurrection City, May 19, 1968”
Solidarity Day – 19 June 1968
Commemorate the Family of Resurrection City and all who came for Solidarity Day (Juneteenth 1968)!
Rev Dr Bruce Wright, ¡Presente!
Greetings of peace & love from Poor People’s Embassy – Embajada de la Gente Pobre to the Wright family on the loss of a revolutionary internationalist freedom fighter, Rev Dr Bruce Wright (1961-2021) of the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, Poor People’s Army, Refuge Ministries, and Revolutionary Road Radio, carrying on the tradition ofContinue reading “Rev Dr Bruce Wright, ¡Presente!”
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