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Anti-Poverty Movements: A Reading List
by franknews
January 13, 2021
1. READ: MLK's statement announcing the Poor People's Campaign
2. READ: A brief history of the Labor Movement.
3. READ: Poor People's Campaign's proposed budget for alleviating poverty.
4. WATCH: President Johnson's 1964 State of the Union where he announces a war on poverty.
5. READ: The Color Of Economic Anxiety, an essay in Current Affairs by Malaika Jabali.
6. LISTEN: Money.power.land.solidarity. A podcast by Jake Virden, who we spoke with in August.
7. READ: The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism.
8. READ: Our interview with Thomas Gokey, founder of the Debt Collective on building a debt resistance movement.
9. READ: A 1968 photo essay of Resurrection City.