Join Rev. Barber in Washington June 18

By BERRY CRAIG
AFT Local 1360
 
The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. saw the Civil Rights and Labor movements as natural allies.
 
So does the Reverend Dr. William Barber II, who is looking for a strong union turnout at the June 18 “Poor People’s and Low-wage Workers Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the polls.” 
 
Barber is co-chair of the National Poor People’s Campaign: A Call for Moral Revival, which is sponsoring the march in our nation’s capital.
 
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“To be in the union movement and to be aligned with the Poor People’s Campaign is one and the same,” Barber said in a 2019 interview with the Kentucky State AFL-CIO. “Dr. King said the union movement and poor people had to all come together. Unions have been tremendous.”
 
According to the Poor People’s Campaign website, “We Assemble and March on June 18, 2022 because any nation that ignores nearly half of its citizens is in a moral, economic, and political crisis.”