MLK’s Dream Unfulfilled: Addressing Economic Inequality in America

 

Forum at National Press Club This Week Aims for Answers

 

WASHINGTON – In the 50 years since the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, our nation has taken tremendous strides towards realizing MLK’s Dream of ending racial inequality and achieving civil rights freedom.  However, during  the same time, the disappearance of good jobs and growing economic inequality threaten to leave MLK’s Dream unfulfilled and out of reach for millions of Americans. In fact, President Obama recently stated that this economic inequality is weakening the country’s social fabric, undermining ordinary Americans’ belief in upward mobility and stoking race and class divisions as Americans feel they must fight for a piece of an increasingly shrinking pie.

This event will take place Wednesday, August 21^st, 6-8 P.M., at The National Press Club, Holeman Lounge, 529 14th Street NW Washington, DC

 Civil rights legends, media commentators, and low-wage workers will discuss how MLK’s Dream – a vision that included both racial and economic equality – is relevant now more than ever, and what can be done today to make the Dream a reality.

Speakers are:

Civil Rights and Labor Leader BILL LUCY, who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela

ALVIN TURNER, 1968 Memphis Sanitation Striker Chicago Tribune

Columnist CLARENCE PAGE

National Radio Commentator JOE MADISON

LOW-WAGE WORKERS, who have been striking for living wages 

Civil Rights Attorney MOSHE MARVIT, co-author of “Why Labor Organizing Should be a Civil Right”

SNCC Activist LARRY RUBIN

To RSVP, please contact Paco Fabián at paco.fabian@changetowin.org. Space is limited.