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The Most Important Political Article in Ages

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Every serious, principled progressive knows we have not had a real resistance movement against Trump--meaning an organized resistance to the corrupt political system vomited up Trump as U.S. president. Instead we've only a p*ssy-hatted "McResistance" sponsored by warmongering corporate Democrats and their well-heeled donors: a "resistance" utterly unwilling to tackle meaningful issues.

Astute progressives have begun to see the Poor People's Campaign's potential as the long-overdue resistance movement--provided it's truly faithful to fighting Dr. King's "triple evils" of poverty, racism, and militarism as well as the added evil of ecological degradation. 

This Black Agenda Report piece recognizes the PPC's potential while boldly criticizing the very real weaknesses that could destroy that potential.

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At www.blackagendareport.com
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Patrick Walker is co-founder of Revolt Against Plutocracy (RAP) and the Bernie or Bust movement it spawned. Before that, he cut his activist teeth with the anti-fracking and Occupy Scranton PA movements. No longer with RAP, he wields his pen (more...)
 

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