by UFPJ web | Mar 23, 2024 | Action Alerts, Anti-Intervention, Poor Peoples Campaign, Top Story
On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his tragic assassination, in his prophetic speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. declared: “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on...
by UFPJ web | Jun 24, 2023 | Economic Justice, Poor Peoples Campaign, Top Story
Hundreds of Poor People’s Campaign leaders from over 30 states came together on Capitol Hill June 19-21 to shift the nation’s attention to the reality of poverty in the country, highlight poverty as an American death sentence and demand action to end murder by public...
by UFPJ web | May 27, 2023 | Economic Justice, Poor Peoples Campaign, Top Story
Across the country, the Poor People’s Campaign is calling for a Third Reconstruction. Amid targeted extremist attacks, murder exacted through public policy, and the interlocking injustices of systemic racism, ecological devastation, the war economy &...
by UFPJ web | Mar 24, 2023 | Economic Justice, Events & Updates, Member Group, Military Spending, Poor Peoples Campaign, Top Story
A report from the California Poor People’s Campaign End Women’s Poverty: Invest in Caring Not Killing, an International Women’s Day event on March 8, was spearheaded by the California Poor People’s Campaign (PPC), with UFPJ, CODEPINK and Women’s International League...
by UFPJ web | Mar 24, 2023 | Action Alerts, Economic Justice, Events & Updates, Military Spending, Poor Peoples Campaign, Racial Justice, Top Story
On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his tragic assassination, in his prophetic speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. declared: “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on...
by UFPJ web | Sep 24, 2022 | Action Alerts, Democracy, Poor Peoples Campaign, Top Story
Three months ago, tens of thousands of people stood with the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival (PPC) in the nation’s capital, at the Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the...