“But if a man doesn’t have a job or an income, he has neither life nor
liberty nor the possibility for the pursuit of happiness. He merely
exists…”
In 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. had begun to organize the Poor People’s Campaign. It was a multiracial effort aimed at alleviating
poverty regardless of race in order to build the network needed to achieve the goal of redistributing political and economic power. King had shifted his focus to these issues after observing
that gains in civil rights had not improved the material conditions of
life for many African Americans. Just as King was beginning this campaign he was assassinated.
In April 1968 King had answered a call from Memphis activists who
needed him to help energize a sanitation workers’ strike, a cause for
economic justice that would be his last. King aligned with the struggle of the poor and black sanitation workers
in Memphis and suggested that their
struggle for dignity was a dramatization of the issues taken up by the
Poor People’s Campaign—a fight by capable, hard workers against
dehumanization, discrimination and poverty wages in the richest country
in the world.
In his final speech King stated: “Now, let me say as I move to my conclusion that we’ve got to give
ourselves to this struggle until the end. Nothing would be more tragic
than to stop at this point, in Memphis. We’ve got to see it through. And
when we have our march, you need to be there. Be concerned about your
brother. You may not be on strike. But either we go up together, or we
go down together.“
Fisherman: Friend, what do you want? [weasel sniffs at a closed bucket with fish] Hungry for some fish, aren’t you? Maybe I should give you a fishing pole? Eager beaver. Let me open it. [weasel is busy digging under the bucket. fisherman gently pokes it] Hey, there is a lid up here. Come on, pick any you want. [weasel grabs a fish and runs away] Hey, no “thank you”? Well, you’re welcome.
I’m NEVER going to get tired of watching Russians interact with wildlife
last night one of my campers was like “well i lost one of my shoes in the swamp today” and i said “oh no!” and she shrugged and said “its ok. shoes are just objects” and damn. they really are
today a completely different camper with scratches all over her legs was like “every step hurts me” and i was like “oh that sucks!” and she shrugged and said “well, you know, pain is a temporary emotion”
the next gen have achieved either peak buddhism or peak nihilism
hello i am an asian autistic lesbian girl. i go by kitsu and well, i was sexually assaulted during class by a male student. the male student is not going to be punished for sexually assaulting me because the school deemed it as an accident, and that he is apparently sorry for doing it. they also said that i don’t have enough evidence to get it on his record, and so he will be getting off scot free. i will however be getting a suspension because they told me that i should have just walked away. they literally told me to my face that if i had walked away and not punched him after he punched me i wouldn’t have been sexually assaulted. also, they have instructed me not to talk about this to anyone, effectively silencing me.
my father is going to press charges against him. we have already gotten the police department involved and i have a restraining order against him. however because of this i was kicked out of a prestigious engineering program at my school. they obviously had to seperate us but because of this they had to remove me from this program while keeping my sexual assaulter in the same program.
im going through so much stress right now. i hate to seem like im using tumblr in this way but please. i have been in a car crash less than two weeks ago and life is spinning around so fast. if you would like to throw some money my way so i can help pay for an attorney/ a tutor because im missing so much school it would mean the world. my venmo is @merylsilverburgh. if you absolutely want to donate but only have a paypal please dm me.
snapchats are included because i feel like they describe my story well. i blacked out my schools name.
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