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Editor's Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative June 2018 news and views
June 24
Washington Post, In D.C., the Poor People’s Campaign hits 50 and looks ahead, Reis Thebault, June 24, 2018 (print edition). With the Capitol behind him, in a city fraught with partisan politics, the Rev. William Barber laid out his vision for the Poor People’s Campaign in his gravelly preacher’s voice.“Don’t get it twisted,” he told a crowd on Saturday during a rally on the Mall. “We are not left, we are not right, we are not conservative or liberal.”
The rally followed 40 days of protest and civil disobedience across the country, but Barber wanted the crowd to know that day was not the end of anything — it was to be the beginning of a “moral uprising across America.”
And, even though the day marked 50 years since “Resurrection City,” when thousands camped out in the same place to decry the plight of the poor, Barber also made it clear that they were not there to celebrate an anniversary.
“This is not a commemoration of what happened 50 years ago,” he said. “This is a reenactment and reinauguration.”
Just as Barber and the Poor People’s Campaign co-organizers want their movement to transcend traditional political affiliation, they also want it to be inclusive, especially of people and issues that they think are marginalized.
Attendees waved signs and held banners that called for an end to voter suppression and mass incarceration, and that advocated for transgender rights and affordable health care. One group hoisted a 20-foot inflatable pipeline that read “No Fossil Fuels.”
Michael Marceau, who was carrying a Veterans for Peace flag, said he thinks veterans often go unheard. He remembers the first Poor People’s Campaign, in 1968, the year before he was drafted to fight in the Vietnam War. The side effects of combat are closely intertwined with poverty, Marceau said.
“It’s all connected,” he said.
Native American activists also said they’ve felt shut out of the conversation. “We have been neglected for 500 years,” said Chief Wendsler Nosie of Apache Stronghold, a group that has fought mining on indigenous land. “Now today, we are finally being heard.”
The crowd was spread out for about two blocks along the Mall, and attendees included the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson and actor Danny Glover. People from California to Florida traveled to the District to attend. For many, it was a family affair.
Veronica Terry brought six of her children from Durham, N.C. “We do this as a family to show unity,” Terry said. “I told them, ‘This is history in the making.’ ” One of Portia Armstrong’s grandchildren held a sign that read “Systemic Racism is Immoral.”
June 23
U.S. Immigration Firestorm
Above, a file photo from the Department of Homeland Security.
Washington Post, Reversal on migrant families by Trump causes confusion and second-guessing, Devlin Barrett, Josh Dawsey and Nick Miroff, June 23, 2018 (print edition). President Trump told aides he wanted to sign a full immigration bill as part of an executive order, which one administration official described as an “insane idea.” Lawyers told Trump that he can’t change immigration law by fiat, said a person familiar with the discussions.
Amid continuing fallout from the Trump administration’s family separation policy, and a disjointed retreat earlier this week, senior officials met Friday to craft a plan for reuniting immigrant children with their parents or guardians, though it remained unclear how long that work will take.
The midday meeting was designed for officials to hash out exactly how they would reunite the more than 2,500 migrant children who have been separated from their parents since the practice went into effect in early May, according to officials involved in the discussions, who, like others, spoke on
the condition of anonymity to offer candid insights into internal deliberations. Roughly 500 children have already been reunited with a parent or guardian, officials have said.The Friday meeting capped a tumultuous week in which administration officials rushed through an executive order that relieved the political pressure on President Trump but intensified friction between the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security.
New Poor People's March
Washington Post, 50 years later, the new Poor People’s Campaign lays out a political strategy beyond its Washington rally, Marissa J. Lang, Organizers will gather in D.C. Saturday for a rally that leaders of the movement say is only the beginning.Before the sun rose on the final morning of a 40-day protest blitz for poor people’s rights, the Rev. William Barber was wide awake. He was intently watching the television in his Washington hotel room, scanning the crawl of headlines for the latest in the Trump administration’s efforts to enforce a “zero tolerance” immigration policy that separated more than 2,500 immigrant children from their parents.
As he watched, ...
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