{"id":617657,"date":"2022-04-22T08:46:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T08:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=240559"},"modified":"2022-04-22T08:46:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T08:46:26","slug":"the-poor-at-the-crossroads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/04\/22\/the-poor-at-the-crossroads\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poor at the Crossroads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 54th anniversary of the assassination of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., just passed. Dr. King was shot down while organizing low-wage sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee. At that time, he was building the\u00a0Poor People\u2019s Campaign, an effort to organize America\u2019s poor into a force to be reckoned with. In his opposition to the\u00a0Vietnam War\u00a0and  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/04\/22\/the-poor-at-the-crossroads\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/04\/22\/the-poor-at-the-crossroads\/\">The Poor at the Crossroads<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/04\/22\/the-poor-at-the-crossroads\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 54th anniversary of the assassination of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., just passed. Dr. King was shot down while organizing low-wage sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee. At that time, he was building the\u00a0Poor People\u2019s Campaign, an effort t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617658,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617657\/revisions\/617658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}