We need a new Poor People's March

[LiberalEsto]

I think most of us are pretty well fed up with the meager crumbs of "health reform" that we might be getting, along with the escalation of the Afghan war, the bailouts to big banks, corporate executive bonuses, continuing massive unemployment, and so on. I don't see a whole lot of positive changes coming.

Maybe it's time for the unemployed, the poor and the homeless to hold another march on the nation's capital this year to "help the poor get jobs, health care and decent homes," like the Rev. Martin Luther King hoped to do with his planned Poor People's March in 1968. Tragically, the Rev. King did not live to see the actual march, which was organized and led by others.

About the 1968 march from this website: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91626373

"In early 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders planned a Poor People's Campaign in Washington, D.C., for the spring. The group planned to demand that President Lyndon Johnson and Congress help the poor get jobs, health care and decent homes.

Campaign organizers intended the campaign to be a peaceful gathering of poor people from communities across the nation. They would march through the capital and visit various federal agencies in hopes of getting Congress to pass substantial anti-poverty legislation. They planned to stay until some action was taken."