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Donkees

(32,396 posts)
Thu Apr 5, 2018, 12:57 PM Apr 2018

Thank you @ChokweALumumba for hosting a great town hall last night.





Justice in a coffee cup: Bernie Sanders, Lumumba reflect on MLK's dream
Justin Vicory, Clarion Ledger Published 8:43 a.m. CT April 5, 2018 | Updated 11:05 a.m. CT April 5, 2018


Excerpt:

Jobs and justice are inextricably linked, Martin Luther King Jr. said as he exposed societal ills in the 60s.

"It's much easier to integrate a lunch counter than to guarantee an income," King said.

Also, worker rights, income inequality and livable wages were staples of King's message when he helped to organize and support Memphis sanitation workers just before he was shot and killed at the Lorraine Motel on April 4, 1968.

Fifty years later and to that end, progressive firebrand U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders joined Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba Wednesday night at Thalia Hall in downtown Jackson.

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2018/04/05/justice-coffee-cup-bernie-sanders-lumumba-reflect-mlks-dream/484734002/


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Thank you @ChokweALumumba for hosting a great town hall last night. (Original Post) Donkees Apr 2018 OP
Great town hall. Lumumba will play a big role in MS, mountain grammy Apr 2018 #1
I think it is great that there are progressives coming forward across the country! David__77 Apr 2018 #2

David__77

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2. I think it is great that there are progressives coming forward across the country!
Fri Apr 6, 2018, 10:13 PM
Apr 2018

A new politics can emerge.

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