Poor People’s Campaign

A brief post on this historic day. Shortly before his assassination Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had started what he referred to as the “second phase” of the civil rights movement, which was to confront capitalism head on with a “Poor People’s Campaign.” Reverend Hosea Williams explained the reason for the PPC, “We will never get free by eliminating racism or bringing about integration. If black people were able to eliminate every aspect of racism and integrate every aspect of American life, we would not be free. Black folks will never be free until we have our fair share of the economy. We live not in a political society, nor in a social society, nor a religious society, we live in an economic society. So we had to launch a movement to gain our fair share of the economy.”

We need to honor Dr. King by demanding an economic democracy.