by UFPJ web | Apr 25, 2025 | Economic Justice, Events & Updates, Member Group, Military Spending, Poor Peoples Campaign, Racial Justice, Top Story
Photo: Oakland, CA Beyond Vietnam readers; photo credit: Sandy Thacker In his prophetic speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” delivered on April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his tragic and untimely assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. declared:...
by UFPJ web | Mar 22, 2025 | Economic Justice, Events & Updates, 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 | 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...
