The Poor People's Campaign was a march on Washington D.C. to gain economic justice for poor people in the United States that began on this day in 1968, just one month after the assassination of one of its key organizers, MLK Jr.
The protest was also organized by Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and carried out under the leadership of Ralph Abernathy in the wake of King's assassination.
After presenting an organized set of demands to Congress and executive agencies, participants set up a 3,000-person protest camp on the Washington Mall, where they stayed for six weeks in the spring of 1968.
Among those demands was a proposal for an "economic bill of rights" that included a commitment to full employment, a guaranteed annual income measure, and more low-income housing for poor Americans of all races.
"I think it is necessary for us to realize that we have moved from the era of civil rights to the era of human rights…
When we see that there must be a radical redistribution of economic and political power, then we see that for the last twelve years we have been in a reform movement…
That after Selma and the Voting Rights Bill, we moved into a new era, which must be an era of revolution…"
-MLK Jr., in a 1967 planning meeting
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what did you get? i need a new phone and it's very hard to choose because like I just don't want to spend hundreds of dollars and it be worse in some way than my old phone (a galaxy s7 edge) but there's like a billion different metrics to compare and like, idk, I hate shopping for shit, it's so much work
but i finally cracked my phone screen and it can't load the fucking app my bank uses because it's Too Old and I think the RAM isn't doing it anymore because it really struggles with load times, i'm literally at work for minutes sometimes not getting paid because the fucking app won't load
Note that I had some very specific requirements which probably won't apply to you
Under 150 euros
Better specs than my old Redmi
2 separate SIM slots as well as an SD card slot, no hybrid SIM bullshit
That last one turned out to be the most limiting one of them all as very few phones seem to have all three slots these days. I took a look at your S7 Edge's specs and honestly, you could easily replace it with a sub-200 dollar phone though you might have to compromise on your screen resolution a bit- cheaper phones seem to be still using 1080p and even 720p screens.
Something like this might tick your boxes if it's available in your region