United Workers Human Rights Dialogue (Jan. 19, 2013)
On Saturday, January 19, the United Workers, Healthcare is a Human Right – Maryland, Public Justice Center, Legal Aid, and the Baltimore Algebra Project hosted our 2013 Human Rights Dialogue, as we commemorated the anniversary of the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
We came together because we recognize that our communities are in crisis. We are experiencing systemic human rights abuses in every sector—work, housing, health, education, and the environment. The fight to address these big problems requires the building of a large social movement. Part of building our movements depends on studying the lessons of past struggles which is why our Human Rights Dialogue will include a study of Dr. King’s Poor People’s Campaign of 1968 and the transformation from Civil to Human Rights.
Dr. King called for a movement of the poor, united across color lines, to be a “new and unsettling force” in our complacent national life (see the video above). Dr. King unmasked the failures of our broken system, where there are enough resources, but not the priorities to meet everyone’s needs; where people are forced into bankruptcy because they lack health care; where workers work two jobs to make ends meet; where students do not have the basic materials they need to study like books and lab equipment; and where homeless families live on the street next to abandoned homes. We discussed this and more, as we carried on in the legacy of Dr. King’s dream.
United Workers Human Rights Dialogue (Jan. 19, 2013)
On Saturday, January 19, the United Workers, Healthcare is a Human Right – Maryland, Public Justice Center, Legal Aid, and the Baltimore Algebra Project hosted our 2013 Human Rights Dialogue, as we commemorated the anniversary of the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
We came together because we recognize that our communities are in crisis. We are experiencing systemic human rights abuses in every sector—work, housing, health, education, and the environment. The fight to address these big problems requires the building of a large social movement. Part of building our movements depends on studying the lessons of past struggles which is why our Human Rights Dialogue will include a study of Dr. King’s Poor People’s Campaign of 1968 and the transformation from Civil to Human Rights.
Dr. King called for a movement of the poor, united across color lines, to be a “new and unsettling force” in our complacent national life (see the video above). Dr. King unmasked the failures of our broken system, where there are enough resources, but not the priorities to meet everyone’s needs; where people are forced into bankruptcy because they lack health care; where workers work two jobs to make ends meet; where students do not have the basic materials they need to study like books and lab equipment; and where homeless families live on the street next to abandoned homes. We discussed this and more, as we carried on in the legacy of Dr. King’s dream.