Reflections on the Poor People’s Campaign in Michigan
NOVANEWS
Activists project the need for a broad based coalition of popular forces
By Abayomi Azikiwe
Featured image: Poor People’s Campaign of Michigan rally outside the Department of Treasury on June 11, 2018
Six weeks of rallies, mass demonstrations and civil disobedience concluded in Michigan on Monday June 18 when hundreds of participants in the Poor People’s Campaign (PPC) moved their events to the city of Detroit, the most populated municipality in the state.
This effort is part of a national mobilization to place emphasis on the plight of the growing numbers of impoverished people in the United States.
Issues related to income inequality, environmental racism, state repression, union organizing among service employees, massive water shutoffs and contamination, the nee...