The Poor People's Campaign was a march on Washington D.C. to gain economic justice for poor people in the United States that began on this day in 1968, just one month after the assassination of one of its key organizers, MLK Jr.

The protest was also organized by Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and carried out under the leadership of Ralph Abernathy in the wake of King's assassination.

After presenting an organized set of demands to Congress and executive agencies, participants set up a 3,000-person protest camp on the Washington Mall, where they stayed for six weeks in the spring of 1968.

Among those demands was a proposal for an "economic bill of rights" that included a commitment to full employment, a guaranteed annual income measure, and more low-income housing for poor Americans of all races.

"I think it is necessary for us to realize that we have moved from the era of civil rights to the era of human rights…

When we see that there must be a radical redistribution of economic and political power, then we see that for the last twelve years we have been in a reform movement…

That after Selma and the Voting Rights Bill, we moved into a new era, which must be an era of revolution…"

-MLK Jr., in a 1967 planning meeting

• The Last March of Martin Luther King Jr.

• May 12, 1968: The Poor People’s Campaign Began

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It's a tiny ass island yet whenever a British person hears another British person they'll be like "Oi guvenor! I know exactly where in Merry-ol-England they are from! Clearly they're from Bovinshire-upon-Weavilton!" And Bovinshire-upon-Weavilton is a town like 10 minutes away from where they live.

You're a nineteen year old lieutenant colonel named Pro-Am Rugburn. You still have brain zaps from an adolescence of weekly use of the worst Molly imaginable. Your lips are cracked and dry from all your spitting. You are a member of the Nothing But Main Battle Tanks urban combat unit. You are taking heavy casualties, but you cannot extrajudicially kill windows whenever one of your guys dies. You're trying to make Infected Mushroom's 2007 psy trance classic, Becoming Insane, into the unofficial song of the Gaza invasion, much like Fortunate Son was to Vietnam, or Bodies by Drowning Pool was to GWOT, but people keep redubbing your TikToks with Yakety Sax. The IDF gave you a gun that looks ridiculous. You fear that GoPro footage of you getting your head blown clean off is going to be put into Sony Vegas and edited to look like the VATS menu from fallout. Nothing is passionfruit flavored. You wonder if there will be EDM in heaven.

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The estimated value of the aircraft is about $400 million.

Why is this fucking squirrel doing an Easter egg hunt. America is so treat brained even the squirrels need their plastic treats

It better be better than Poochinski

https://xcancel.com/rmc031/status/1920440113680572526

Man is just fucking with Euro brains with every statement.

I wish my mom didnt ruin my YouTube algorithm

Here's one I think not many people think about, factory or industrial cycles, as in, they're used to get people and some goods around factories or industrial sites. In the open world these are often called transport bicycles, sort of like the middle step between your average bicycle and a proper cargo bike.

Transport cycles usually come with some sort of internal gear hub with 7 or 8 gears, mostly using the tried and true Shimano Nexus. Industrial or Factory bicycles tend to be a hell of a lot more utilitarian and built for shorter distances, with many of them being single speeds or maybe a 3 gear nexus in there. They're usually quite heavy, pictured one comes in at 19kg which is a lot for a non-ebike, but do sport some increased carry weights - 25kg for that front basket there, 140kg in total (so 120kg of load capacity including all human and all cargo), allthough I imagine this is often disregarded with very few problems.

https://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/jhamlin/4111/MarxReadings/Estranged%20Labour,%20Marx,%201844.htm

Every self-estrangement of man from himself and nature is manifested in the relationship he sets up between other men and himself and nature. Thus, religious self-estrangement is necessarily manifested in the relationship between layman and priest, or, since we are dealing here with the spiritual world, between layman and mediator, etc. In the practical, real world, self-estrangement can manifest itself only in the practical, real relationship to other men. The medium through which estrangement progresses is itself a practical one. So through estranged labour man not only produces his relationship to the object and to the act of production as to alien and hostile powers; he also produces the relationship in which other men stand to his production and product, and the relationship in which he stands to these other men. Just as he creates his own production as a loss of reality, a punishment, and his own product as a loss, a product which does not belong to him, so he creates the domination of the non-producer over production and its product. Just as he estranges from himself his own activity, so he confers upon the stranger and activity which does not belong to him.

The party he's talking about, which split off from the Red Party over Ukraine, states in its own words,

Norwegian weapons in Ukraine contribute to lengthening the suffering by delaying necessary peace negotiations. Peace and Justice wants to spend the 180 billion kroner that the parties in parliament want to spend on continuing the war in Ukraine, on improving people's lives rather than taking more of them. The war began due to NATO's goal of incorporating Ukraine as a member, and can be stopped by abandoning this goal.

"Putinists."

Check the Mastodon user's bio,

[...] Green Party. [...] Library socialist.

Welp, guess it figures that this is the type of person who can somehow reconcile an ideology he probably only heard about from a YouTube video by a certain Trinidadian fellow, with being a member of a green capitalist party that wants Norway to join the EU (for the sake of green capitalists' profit).

There is an incredible amount of conspiracy theories surrounding cars and whenever the discussion or analysis of how in gods name did we get to so many people believing in them so many smart people do a lot of thinking and just entirely blank what, to me, is the most obvious entrypoint for this sort of thing.

I'm not talking about the crank shit that is also car, like the idea that the jewish lizard people are hiding the water based engine that can drive around the earth on 500ml of liquid here, but the explicitly carbrained ones that never seem to be called out as conspiracy theories despite hitting all the marks.

How many people do you know that think whatever the authority on traffic light timings is just making them bad on purpose to annoy every car driver? Like there's a big red "make car traffic flow good" button in the central control unit everybody involved just refuses to press or even talk about despite literally every document around this topic clearly lining out how they're optimizing all this shit for optimal car throughput at every turn?

The idea that there isn't enough parking that goes full steam into being aggrieved about not being able to park in the 4th dimension because you can't park 5 cars directly infront of a storefront that's about one car wide and somehow this is again the doing of the shadowy cabal that runs the municipality to annoy every car driver.

The idea that for some unbeknownst reason every western government is in cahoots to build roads like shit so they deterioate within a year or two, on purpose, to...annoy car drivers, again.

The idea that one more lane will fix it, where there is a magic solution to congestion, despite that having never worked, decades of scientific evidence that it doesn't and also again begs the question as how do you figure every level of government everywhere just refuses to do the one magic thing that fixes it all.

Your average carbrain sits at a traffic light, see's people go the other way and figures the government is gangstalking him, specifically. The reasons entirely unclear, but some sort of entity out there is dead set on making you miserable by making you wait. That's the common thread here, it's being annoyed and then figuring out this is targeting you, specifically, completely ignoring how much the built enviroment you're using is made to serve the cars despite all the very much published evidence around it and instead believing there's some conspiracy going on that hides the magic solution that would make it all better. It's all conspiracy theories, except enough people believe in them that it's just mainstream politics now. Wonder where else we might find this phenomenon.

I bet the Pentagon had a big bash planned and everything when their engineering corps brought them the bad news. Then they had to spin the sour grapes.

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