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TWO US religious leaders launched a successor to Martin Luther King’s Poor People’s Campaign yesterday on its 50th anniversary.
The Rev Dr William Barber, a civil rights leader from North Carolina, and the Rev Dr Liz Theoharis from Milwaukee relaunched the campaign first begun shortly before the Rev King’s 1968 assassination.
Dr Barber said the campaign “aims to build a broad and deep national moral fusion movement — rooted in the leadership of the poor, marginalised and moral agents — to unite our country from the bottom up.
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RICHARD BURGON MP points to the recent relative success of widespread opposition to the Labour leadership’s regressive policies as the blueprint for exacting the changes required to build a fairer society
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