Poor People's Campaign rally ends with vows to keep organizing and protesting

[guillaumeb]

From the article:

A multiracial, intergenerational crowd of social justice activists, union workers and people of faith gathered on the National Mall over the weekend to get marching orders for their next steps in a new Poor People’s Campaign.
Thousands of people prayed, cheered and listened intently as speakers called for a re-energized approach to fighting poverty and other social ills they say are plaguing the country. Organizers urged those who had traveled from as far away as Alaska and Alabama to raise their hands in a show of commitment to educating voters in the days ahead.

To read more:

https://religionnews.com/2018/06/25/poor-peoples-campaign-ends-with-vows-to-keep-organizing-and-protesting/

Kicking off on Mother’s Day with rallies in cities across the United States and ending with the gathering on the Mall, the campaign’s 40 days was intended to energize a similar interfaith effort on a host of mostly liberal causes.

[Voltaire2]

1. Is this your good gods or your bad gods doing?

[trotsky]

2. Does religion have anything to do with this?

Or is it just humans being good all on their own?

[guillaumeb]

3. A fair question.

And I have no definitive answer.