50 Years After MLK's Poor People’s Campaign, 2,500+ Arrested Over 6 Weeks Calling for Moral Revival

We feature voices of the thousands who marched on the nation's Capitol Saturday for the Poor People's Campaign. The mass demonstration followed six weeks of actions around the country and more than 2,500 arrests, as protesters join what they are calling a "moral revival" to demand an end to systemic racism, poverty, the war economy and ecological devastation. The march brought together activists from around the country more than 50 years after demonstrators converged on Washington, D.C., in 1968 to take up the cause that Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been fighting for when he was assassinated on April 4, 1968: the original Poor People's Campaign. Demonstrators rallied to protest widespread poverty just days after U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley slammed a new U.N. report slamming the Trump administration's policies for worsening the state of poverty in the United States.