Low-wage workers are reviving Dr. King's 1968 Poor People's Campaign [marketplace.org]

Alicia Doktor 5/9/184:00 AM

The meeting room in the basement of the First Congregational Church of Memphis was packed on a recent Saturday morning with clergy members, activists, residents and workers. “It’s gone on far too long. It’s gone on far too long,” they chanted, rocking back and forth to a 1960s civil rights anthem. Their purpose for coming together was a four-hour training session on community building and peaceful protest.

Ashley Cathey stood in the front of the room to speak, wearing a black shirt that delivered its own statement: “Fight poverty, not the poor.”

“I’m still struggling even though I work three jobs, so I’m poor,” Cathey said.

[For more on this story by Renata Sago, go to https://www.marketplace.org/20.../grassroots-campaign]

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