U.S. — Successor to Martin Luther King’s anti-poverty campaign seeks space in presidential campaign – By Mohamed Hamaludin
The Rev. William J. Barber II and the Rev. Liz Theoharis want you to know that 140 million Americans or 43 percent of the population are poor or earn a low income; 74 million are women and 39 million are children. In addition, 66 million are whites, a third of them living in the South, and 26 million are African Americans.
The reality, the two pastors say, is “a moral crisis” and a year ago they launched a campaign to awaken the nation to the real problems which the country faces. Almost exactly 50 years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. launched his Poor People’s Campaign, Barber and Theoharis revived the initiative as “A National Call For Moral Revival.” Continue reading
USA: We need a massive national program to counter hate – By Mohamed Hamaludin
The soul-searching taking place over the Aug. 3, 2019 El Paso mass shooting in which a 21-year-old white racist killed 22 people and wounded 24 others is likely to get nowhere as far as dealing with violent white supremacy and gun control are concerned. If the slaughter of 20 six- and seven-year-old children and six adult staff members of the Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012, in Newtown. Conn., could not produce meaningful action, very little else can.
But there was ample warning about such tragedies. Analysts at the Department of Homeland Security said in 2009 that white extremism posed a threat to national security because of the election of the first African American president, the financial crisis (2008-2012) and wider use of social media. Continue reading →
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