Tag: Poor People’s Campaign

Poor People’s Campaign — A new incarnation

May 11, 2022 Patricia Hynes

by Pat Hynes This article originally appeared in the Greenfield Recorder. As a young woman in 1968, I was deeply inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.’s passion to stir the conscience of America about widespread poverty among people of all colors. With the Southern Christian […]

It’s Time for a Meeting: Join Us in Washington on June 18!

May 2, 2022 Jackie Dee King

by Jackie King “It’s time for a meeting!” — Bishop William J. Barber II, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, thundered those words in Cleveland last month, summoning people from across the country to our nation’s capital on June 18 for the Mass Poor People’s […]

A crowd gathers outside Rep. Stephen's Lynch's office in the Boston Seaport in support of a Third Reconstruction.

Poor People’s Campaign Builds Support for a “Third Reconstruction”

June 14, 2021 Jackie Dee King

by Jackie King The Massachusetts Poor People’s Campaign and their allies converged on the offices of US Rep. Stephen Lynch in Boston and Richard Neal in Springfield June 7 for a press conference to demand that they – and all the state’s representatives – co-sponsor […]

Mass. Poor People’s Campaign Supports Striking Nurses

April 15, 2021 Jackie Dee King

by Jackie King Members of the Massachusetts Poor People’s Campaign traveled from around the state last Saturday to support the nurses striking for safer staffing levels and better patient care at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Worcester. We repeatedly circled the hospital in a car caravan, […]

Poor People’s Campaign Delivers Demands to State House

April 13, 2021 Jackie Dee King

by Jackie Dee King In a move evoking the defiance of Martin Luther 500 years ago, more than 35 people representing the Massachusetts Poor People’s Campaign braved a cold wind and a global pandemic to rally on Beacon Hill March 15. As Luther nailed his […]

Conference Forges Unity, Tackles Future After Trump

February 25, 2021 Cole Harrison

by Cole Harrison More than 300 Massachusetts progressives gathered for a two-day conference December 5-6, convened by Mass. Peace Action and joined by 15 other groups, to discuss how to build the people’s movement in the new political landscape of a Biden administration. The COVID […]