RT this! NO chair throwing at #nvdemconvention – guy picks chair up, puts it down, they HUG it out. #TeamBernieNV pic.twitter.com/mBZmEeg1T5

— Jenn Dize Bit.ly/RickSnyderFlint (@JennElizabethJ) May 17, 2016

Here former Ohio Senator Nina Turner is interviewed by Ed Shultz https://youtu.be/OYaR4X2KDmk who was there and has said repeatedly that there was no violence on the part of the Sanders supporters. They go into the spin the media and the Clinton surrogates in California are trying to distort the record. It is definitely worth watching.

Instead the corporate media blew this out of proportion and tied this incident into reports of death threats to the chair and vandalism at the party HQ. None of this was instigated or sanctioned by the Sanders campus, and Bernie himself this issue the statement on this.

However, in keeping with their drumbeat of the inevitable coronation of Clinton, this served the media narrative as a useful distraction from the fact that Sanders won his first closed primary in Oregon and Hillary squeaked by at the last minute in Kentucky state that she had one by a wide margin against Obama.

Democracy Now reported it this way.

“Bernie Sanders’ victory in Oregon comes amid tensions with the Democratic Party after Sanders supporters erupted into protest Saturday at the Nevada convention. They say rules were abruptly changed and 64 Sanders supporters were wrongly denied delegate status. Clinton ultimately won 20 pledged delegates to Sanders’ 15. The state party chair, Roberta Lange, said she received death threats, while state party headquarters were vandalized. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid urged Sanders to condemn the behavior of some of his supporters, saying he faced a “test of leadership.” In a statement, Sanders rejected violence, and noted that during the Nevada campaign, shots were fired into his campaign office in the state, and his staff’s housing complex was broken into and ransacked. He also accused Nevada Democratic leadership of “[using] its power to prevent a fair and transparent process” at the conventions on Saturday.”

  It is worth noting that inside the caucus they had a policeline guarding the stage which gave the appearance that it was not a transparent process and was intimidating. The tone of favoritism toward Clinton has been set by by the DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz. She has always been close to Hillary Clinton and has tried to limited debates  as well as a number of other things to give Hillary the full advantage. Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver has complained vociferously about this.

There is a lesson to be learned here. When you are inside any party convention, everything you do will be held as an example of the campaign and it will be used by the  media to tell the story that they want to tell. It is a good lesson for the the State Convention in RI convention which is coming up in June.

Also, for any delegates going to the Democratic National which will be contested as the neither candidate will have the number of pledge delegates needed so it will be up to the superdelegates to tip the scale’s. Not everyone inside of the Democratic Party has been pleased about the way Debbie Wasserman Schultz has manipulated the election and many of them made it clear that they didn’t want to be the one deciding the election.

Footnote: For anyone interested in the wonky details of what went on in Nevada here is a good explanation,

https://johnlaurits.com/2016/05/15/what-happened-at-the-nevada-democratic-state-convention/

If you have a liberal cause you believe in it is in there, but the difference is that it is not a campaign stunt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qQf_bvfR6Y&feature=youtu.be
Look how Bernie was so moved by Flint and #BackLivesMatter that he is still talking about it, while Hillary just plays them as part of the campaign and is on to the next wedge issue to play the people.

Nothing is more emblematic in the difference between the challenge to the status quo than a comparison with Hillary’s visit in Central Falls where, with a full delegation of Senators, Congressmen, the Governor etc., they could barely draw 1200 people. Most telling is that they were all there as Clinton claimed “she has been standing with Latino Families in Rhode Island and across the country for her entire career.”

PolitiFact said:

Sanders has a strong record on immigration issues, Warren Gunnels, his senior policy adviser, replied. Sanders supports “comprehensive immigration reform and a path towards citizenship for 11 million people today who are living in the shadows,” the senator said in a MSNBC Democratic primary debate in New Hampshire in February.

He voted for the Dream Act in 2010, which would have legalized immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children. He also supported the so-called “Gang of Eight” bill in 2013. This bipartisan legislation created a path for people already in the United States, focused on reducing visa backlogs, and improved work-visa options for low-skilled workers.

Why aren’t the political class being held accountable? The political establishment stood with Clinton giving credence to Clinton’s mischaracterization.

Contrast this with Bernie’s rally at Roger Williams Park on Sunday where actress Shailene Woodley, a guest of Students for Bernie, praised Bernie as a political movement builder in the mold of Martin Luther King and said that she has been making phone calls for Bernie herself.

Here is your choice- back the establishment who will use their office to to help politicians play political tricks,  on Latino’s in this case, to get their vote or join the political revolution and help build the better world we know is possible.

Rhode Island state legislators Rep. Aaron Regunberg, of Providence, and Sen. Jim Sheehan, of North Kingstown, were previously covered here. You can watch the rest of the rally below.

It began with a march from Kennedy Plaza, where volunteers could sign up to canvass and phone bank to get the vote out for the April 26th primary.

Tracy Hart reads her poem saying goodbye to the old ways and hello to the new called  “Care Enough to Act.” c.2016 Tracy Hart.

Lauren Niedel, a leading organizer both for Bernie’s campaign here in Rhode Island as well as the RI Progressive Democrats, calls out the troops to canvass and phone bank. She deemed Rhode Island “is Bernie country now!”

Former state Department of Health director Dr. Michael Fine couldn’t be there, but a message from him for the rally about why we need a single-payer health care system was.

Sandy Pliskin played poetry and music inspired by Bernie Sanders. In the tradition of sometime Rhode Islander Pete Seeger, he played a banjo.

Carolyn Colton-supports Bernie because of his positions on college debt and education.For a teacher, artist and activist on the cycle of Student Debt it is stressful for young teachers with crushing loans and low pay face knowing that this will be in the future of the students who they are teaching unless something changes in a major way. 

Abel Collins-South Kingstown Town Council President Abel Collins spoke on the environment. Abel supports Bernie because he understand the issues and the solutions. He notes Hillary Clinton as Sec. of State promoted fracking world wide and now the methane released by fracking and the expansion of natural gas has wiped out the gains that all of the build out of renewables would have provided.

Jared Moffet, aLegalize Marijuana Activist, supports Bernie because he is right to want to End War on Drugs which has failed too solve the problem but created a country with the highest incarceration rate in the world.

Linda Ujifusa, lawyer and activist,  supports Bernie because she feels he understands the immigrant experience recounting the internment of her Japanese-American  parents during WW2. “I’m here today to prove that all Bernie supporters are not white, or young,” she said.

Dr. Mark Ryan supports Bernie because he wants Single Payer. Mark recounts a story about a patient who died because she could not afford the treatment he prescribed.

Ricky North, a Libertarian For Bernie because he can bring people together and attract people who would not ordinarily support Democrats.

Nikki Vanasse from South County for Bernie Sanders – supports Bernie because is is “a dream come true that we have someone representing us with love and compassion”  for our people and the world, noting his visit to Pope Francis.

Laura Perez, candidate for State Representative, supports Bernie because we live one of the most powerful country in the world and we still don’t have free public education and college, and living wage for all and Bernie will work for this. Let’s send work for Bernie and send a message to the RI Statehouse.

I spoke about racial justice. An important reason that I support Bernie is that we need a president with activist roots who participated in civil disobedience to stand up against injustice. I believe that Sanders will work with the community to uproot systemic racism and plant one that recognizes the value and equality of all races.

The Black Out Drum Line led a Community Celebration while people sign up and get information on Democratic Socialism and building a Fossil Free RI.

Tony Hempher from the Bank Tellers Union talked about why bank tellers are supporting Bernie’s economic justice platform pointing out their poor pay and job security.

For What It’s Worth: Full Circle – Time for a political revolution

Colorful and hysterical- the Anti- War and Pro-Environment activist singers the Raging Grannies sing take offs on popular folk songs with humorous lyrics on important issues.

Music for the Revolution while people sign up fro shifts to canvas signups.

Progressives of all stripes are invited to the political revolution to take back the country from the establishment.

The primaries are turning out to be a classic 1% v the 99%.  The Republicans leader is a four times bankrupt billionaire “You’re Fired” celebrity and the Democrats offer the possibility of Bernie Sanders, a social, economic and environmental justice champion, who is saying “You’re Hired” to America.

Sanders won the Wyoming caucus, where he gave his victory speech after a stunning romp of Clinton in Wisconsin, birthplace of modern Progressivism, Sanders will have won 7 0f the last 8 Primaries/Caucuses…as his campaign rolls east. Should be an exciting event.

After Sanders swept six of the last seven contests, by a margins averaging about 75 percent, the contest moves into Wisconsin where progressivism and the unionism face a historic ideological challenge. Will Wisconsin vote for the principles of political revolution they were founded on or will they default to neoliberal pragmatism?

Laborers or labor unions

A little discussed fact is that it is the unions and their members have been the major contributors to Bernie Sanders campaign. Most notably are the Machinist Union, Teamsters Union, National Education Association, United Auto Workers, United Food and Commercial Workers, Communication Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, not to mention the US Postal Service and the Laborers Union.

However, there is a schism. Unions like the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME),  which was central in the fight with Governor Walker on the right to organize, endorsed the reformist darling of the Democratic Party establishment Hillary Clinton. Since Sanders seems more popular with the membership than the leadership, it is not clear how this will translate into votes. The AFL-CIO, the largest national union, has declined to endorse either candidate.

Which labor movement will show up? The one who fights for workers rights or the one who believes they already have a seat at the table that it could lose?

Independent voters

Wisconsin has an open primary and at this point it looks like the blue collar workers will largely support Sanders and not be tempted to cross over to Trump like they did in Ohio.  Though Trump has also has taken an anti-NAFTA position, it is Bernie Sanders who has clearly articulated a pro-worker vision from the $15 minimum wage to a pledge to rewrite all of the so-called free-trade agreements. It is Sanders appeal with independents that his campaign bases there claim that he is the stronger candidate in the general election and they may break his way on Tuesday.

Wisconsin’s progressive roots

And then there is the question of ideology. There’s been much discussion in this campaign about progressivism. After Bernie Sanders laid out a clear progressive, social democrat platform, Hillary Clinton claimed that she was “a progressive who can get things done.”  This was particularly startling since Hillary, a household name, has been practicing triangulation and transactional politics which was started by her husband Bill Clinton through her career. Clintonism, which has dominated the Democrats ideology for decades, claimed that by moving the discussion to the middle, the Democrats could get the Republicans to compromise. What happened, which is what many on the left predicted, is that this tactic pulled the whole party to the right.

Wisconsin should know what the term means. The Progressive Movement was founded there by Bob La Follette, who is known as “Fighting Bob.” At the age of 64, the former governor and staunch supporter of Socialist Eugene V Debs, ran for president largely on an anti-corruption platform, demanded investigations into the war profiteering and corrupt monopolies, and that the big banks be broken up. His platform called for taking over the railroads and private utilities, calling for child labor laws, the right to organize and increasing civil liberties ending racism.

He campaigned for the presidency on a pledge to “break the combined power of the private monopoly system over the political and economic life of the American people” and denouncing, in the heyday of the Ku Klux Klan’s resurgence, “any discrimination between races, classes, and creeds.”

This laid the groundwork for the Progressive Party of Wisconsin which influenced Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal, and was carried on by his son establishing the progressive platform as core values in progressive politics for decades.

Bernie for Wisconsin

What is on the line Tuesday is whether Wisconsin stays true to its progressive roots, or if after years of being clobbered by the Koch brothers, it takes on the mantle of neoliberal centrism. Its progressive roots still live on, at least, at the an annual event called the Fighting Bob Fest where, in October 2014, Bernie Sanders spoke on his familiar topic- Democracy or Oligarchy. You can read the full speech here – or watch the video.

After eviscerating the Koch brothers and the racist right wing fringe, pillars of power in the Republican Party, Sanders lays out the Progressive Platform that he is currently campaigning on – demanding campaign finance reform, breaking up the banks, single-payer health care and strengthening the safety net with a passionate plea for social, environmental and economic justice.

He said we are in the midst of the greatest crisis since the Civil War.

And this is not an easy fight. They have huge resources. They have think tanks. They have media. You name it, they’ve got it.

But there is one thing they don’t have. While they have unlimited sums of money, what we have is the people.

And if we can overcome some of our differences, we can focus on the broad issues facing America: jobs, health care, education, the environment, the needs of children. And on these issues, believe it or not, we are a united nation.

So let us reach out to our brothers and our sisters, fellow workers, fellow family members, and let us create a movement that tells Washington: We are not asking you, we are telling you.

Change will take place in America not through some backroom negotiations.

Change takes place in America when millions of people demand it.

Wisconsin decides Tuesday if it wants systemic change or the status quo primacy of the 1 percent and Wall Street. The same question faces Rhode Islanders on April 26th.

 Narragansett, RI —

Watch this video of Saturday’s event set to Rhode Island’s Steve Dahl singing Neil Young’s “Who’s Gonna Save The Earth.”

In 1996, 820,0000 gallons of oil from the North Cape Cod Disaster forced over 100 square miles of fishing waters to be closed. Then-Governor Linc Almond said that while it was still too early to determine the economic harm from the spill, the damage would be significant for the state’s lobstering and fishing industries, according to this New York Times article about the spill.

In 1989 “The World Prodigy” tanker struck a reef off Newport and dumped about a million gallons of fuel oil into Narragansett Bay.

The lobster industry never recovered from this toxic shock and now Narragansett Bay is 3 or 4 degrees warmer than it was in the 1980’s which is driving native species out. Still think oil is a good idea?

Fossil Free RI spent a year “going through channels” and presenting the moral and logical argument that “if it’s wrong to wreck the climate, then it’s wrong to profit from that wreckage.”

A little over a year ago, the request to divest was turned down by the URI Foundation, which manages the university’s endowment. Community support for divestment has continued to grow, and in response, Fossil Free RI has decided to escalate its campaign and has become a member of the Multi-School Fossil Free Divestment Fund [1].  This will allow concerned alumni to leverage their donations to push the university to divest. Instead of donating to URI directly, alumni can now donate to the fund, which will hold the money until a decision is made to divest, then release it to the university. If, by the end of 2017, the university has not made a commitment to divest, the funds will be distributed among those institutions that made such commitments.

Ron Creamer, a URI alumnus and Fossil Free RI member who practices law, read the rules and regulations of the Multi-School Fossil Free Divestment Fund.  He said: “It is well-organized and set up for the sole purpose of providing an alternative for alumni to invest their funds in a way that may force schools to review their policies on investing in fossil fuel companies.”

Philip Petrie, another URI alumnus, said: “Universities need to step up and do their part to fight climate change by divesting from fossil fuels, and this innovative fund gives donors a chance to hold the institutions’ feet to the fire.”

In the two years that Fossil Free RI has been waging its divestment campaign at URI, it has been calling on the university to live up to its motto “Think Big—We Do.”

“What’s the use of training students in climate mitigation and adaptation strategies while at the same time investing in the very industry that is wreaking havoc around the globe?” asks Marie Schopac, a member of Fossil Free RI.

A little over a year ago, the URI Foundation turned down the divestment request. Interestingly, URI Foundation’s investment board itself has quietly suggested that it is sympathetic, which raises the question, who or what is actually stopping them?

As reported in the Providence Journal [2] at the signing of the Resilient RI Act of 2014, URI President David Dooley pledged the continuing support of his researchers, professors and students to work “with people who believe what scientists have to say about [climate change].”  He added: “We are committed to doing our part.”  Fossil Free RI asks, how can the university claim to be doing its part when it invests in the very industry that is causing the problem?

It is impossible to reconcile fossil fuel investment with the fact that  “coastal development and climate change are rapidly changing the world’s coastlines and dramatically increasing risks of catastrophic damage,” as URI’s Coastal Research Center states in its report Coasts At Risk. [3]

Fossil Free RI fails to understand how URI can continue to invest in the fossil fuel industry, the leading cause of world food shortages, desertification and political instability, while at the same time promoting sustainability through many of its programs such as Sustainable Agriculture @ URI [4] and the ASSESS Project in West Africa. [5]

As to why divestment works, Fossil Free RI agrees with Divest Harvard, which summed up the arguments as follows: “Divestment will decrease the political power of the fossil fuel industry by taking away their social license. Today, politicians will refuse donations from tobacco corporations because they do not want to be associated with the industry’s toxic image. We need politicians to treat fossil fuel corporations the same way, and divestment will help us get there.“

Fossil Free RI respectfully requests a meeting with President Dooley to resolve the moral incongruities noted above.

[1]—http://www.divestfund.org/

[2]—http://www.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/content/20140801-chafee-signs-law-bolstering-r.i.s-efforts-to-ease-impact-of-climate-change.ece

[3]—http://www.crc.uri.edu/2014/07/crc-publishes-coasts-at-risk-report-launch-event-is-july-30/

[4]—http://cels.uri.edu/sustainableag/

[5]—http://www.crc.uri.edu/projects_page/assesswest-africa/

House
Edie Ajello – H. 1 Providence
Chris Blazejewski – H.2 Providence
Aaron Regunberg – H. 4 Providence
Maria Cimini- H. 7 Providence
John Lombardi – H. 8 Providence
Grace Dias- H. 11 Providence
Art Handy – H. 18 Cranston
Dave Bennett H. 20 Warwick
Joe Solomon H. 22 Warwick
Scott Guthrie – H. 28 Coventry
Teresa Tanzi -H. 34 Narragansett/South Kingstown
Donna Walsh – H. 36 Charlestown/Westerly/SK/BI
Larry Valencia – H. 39 Richmond/Exeter/Hopkington
Jay O’Grady – H. 46 Lincoln/Pawtucket
Linda Finn – H. 72 Middletown/Portsmouth
Deb Ruggiero – H. 74 Jamestown
Lauren Carson – H. 75 Newport

Senate
Gayle Goldin- S.3 Providence
Doris De Los Santos – S. 7 Pawtucket
Adam Satchell – S. 9 West Warwick
William Conley- S. 18 East Prov/Pawtucket
Stephen Archambault – S. 22 Smithfield/N. Prov/Johnston
Margaux Morisseau – S. 21 Coventry/Foster/Scituate/W. Greenwich
Josh Miller – S. 28 Cranston
Cathie Cool Rumsey – S. 34 Charlestown, Exeter, Hopkinton, Richmond, W. Greenwich
Sue Sosnowski- S. 37 South Kingstown/Block Island

We thank every one who returned the surveys. We received a record number of responses and some of the decisions were difficult but everyone was considered carefully. There will be a second announcement of endorsements for the Governors, Lieutenant Governor and Treasured along with additional State Representative endorsements.

Congratulations to all those selected in this first round of endorsements and we will work with your campaigns and other endorsees to get you elected.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas- who may go down as the worst justice in the history, went further writing that “all limits on campaigns contributions are unconstitutional.”

This makes the Nobel-Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz article the 2011 Vanity Fair magazine article entitled “Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%“, quite prescient:

“Of all the costs imposed on our society by the top 1 percent, perhaps the greatest is this: the erosion of our sense of identity, in which fair play, equality of opportunity, and a sense of community are so important. America has long prided itself on being a fair society, where everyone has an equal chance of getting ahead, but the statistics suggest otherwise: the chances of a poor citizen, or even a middle-class citizen, making it to the top in America are smaller than in many countries of Europe. The cards are stacked against them. It is this sense of an unjust system without opportunity that has given rise to the conflagrations in the Middle East: rising food prices and growing and persistent youth unemployment simply served as kindling. With youth unemployment in America at around 20 percent (and in some locations, and among some socio-demographic groups, at twice that); with one out of six Americans desiring a full-time job not able to get one; with one out of seven Americans on food stamps (and about the same number suffering from “food insecurity”)—given all this, there is ample evidence that something has blocked the vaunted “trickling down” from the top 1 percent to everyone else. All of this is having the predictable effect of creating alienation—voter turnout among those in their 20s in the last election stood at 21 percent, comparable to the unemployment rate.”

So what’s the solution? Abel Collins offers this:

“We have the numbers. Let us freely assemble, muster our forces, and occupy politics from the bottom up. Put your name in the hat for city or town council. Start a blog, plan street theater, get arrested and be heard. By all means, we should start by reversing the effects of Citizens United. Municipal and statewide resolutions calling on Congress to amend the U.S. Constitution to say that corporations aren’t people and political campaign spending isn’t protected speech can get the ball rolling. Amending State Constitutions via voter initiative or legislative referendum to this same effect as I have proposed in Rhode Island is another step. Whatever else, let us not cede the political sphere to the corporations, whether they are people in the eyes of the Supreme Court or not.”

At least it is one strategy, but considering the ethics of our state legislature it seems rather unlikely. Getting mass numbers assembled and engaged seems a more likely strategy to succeed. But can we do it? That is up to you.

(This video is from 10-8-13 #2 Abel & Noam Interview Part 2 Money as Free Speech Produced by Robert Malin c.2014)

As growing wealth inequality pressurizes the streets, squeezing the middle class into poverty and those in poverty into despair, people of moral consciousness will not allow budget cuts to eviscerate what remains of the social safety net so that politicians can pad the bank rolls of the elite who fund their campaigns and profit off of side deals.

Mr. Elmer Gardiner of the George Wiley Center Leadership Committee explains:

“They recently announced that NORAD, the 7th largest auto importer in the US located in Quonset, are going to ‘create’ almost 300 new jobs paying only $10/hour -which means still they would be still economic slaves. We can’t be subsidizing these large corporations profits by paying for food stamps (SNAP) which wouldn’t be necessary if paid a living wage of $15/hour. Then these workers to have pride and self esteem, not feel that their work isn’t even enough to sustain themselves.”

We have more people today living in poverty than at any time in the history of this country, including the highest rate of children in poverty of any industrialized nation. Here the top one percent owns 38% of all the wealth in America while the bottom 60% own 2.3% collectively. In fact one family, the Walton’s of WalMart, are worth 138 Billion Dollars, more than the bottom 40% own all together. At a freezing cold Black Friday protest, a student said had to quit his job at WalMart and work for a local business the pay wasn’t enough to live on. While protesters chanted “low pay is not OK,” Scott DuHammel of the Painters and Allied Trades Union said “I think this is a terrible situation. The workers obviously deserve more.”

In fact one family, the Walton’s of WalMart, are worth 138 Billion Dollars, more than the bottom 40% own all together. At a freezing cold Black Friday protest, a student said had to quit his job at WalMart and work for a local business the pay wasn’t enough to live on. While protesters chanted “low pay is not OK,” Scott DuHammel of the Painters and Allied Trades Union said “I think this is a terrible situation. The workers obviously deserve more.”

UniteHere has been confronting the same poor pay and benefits at the Renaissance Hotel and the Weston, where the owners multi-millionaire owners lawyer threatened the city with “consequences” if they were not given tax credits for a development project.

And the story is the same all across the service industry. A mother of two children on strike at Wendy’s said “I am tired of getting paid $7.75/hour, and that’s sad…after working there for 4 years.” Women across the country have been earning 78 cents compared to every dollar that a man earns for doing the same job. Carolyn Mark, President of RI National Organization of Woman elaborated. “The number is higher now – 84.8 cents to the dollar, although it’s much lower for women of color. The common wisdom is that it’s not that RI women are doing so much better than women around the country, but that men in Rhode Island are doing that much worse.”

Poverty is the root community problem creating a cycle of crime leading to do to lack of opportunity – a downward spiral caused by a lack of jobs and unequal quality, materials for and access to education which is the key to social mobility. John Prince, founding member of Direct Action for Rights and equality points out that victory of the Ban the Box campaign, which a means amends employment laws to limit inquiries like “have you ever been convicted of a crime” helps to break a cycle of economic inopportunely.  “I never heard a judge sentence anyone to a lifetime without employment. What we need now is for the City of Providence to finally enforce it’s First Source law to hire residents first so there are real jobs developed here.”

Today, the the House Finance Committee will be hearing Rep. Cimini’s bill H7471 would raise taxes by 2% for people making over $250,000 and Rep. Valencia’s Bill H7552 would raise taxes by 4% for people making over $200-250k. This is the way to raise revenues to develop the economy of the state, not by balancing the books on the backs of the poor and shrinking middle class. Austerity cuts are not an option. We need a law to raise the minimum wage to a living wage of $15/hour. Build Rhode Island “from the bottom up. Keep Martin Luther Kings Dream alive with action.

RIMAP is a coalition of organizations and individual from a wide array of backgrounds among anti-poverty, social justice, civil rights, women, human rights, community, labor, seniors, disabled, student, immigrant,  and LGBT with a steering committee modeled after tho one formed by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his Poor Peoples Campaign in 1967.