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Poor People’s Campaign activist Carol Harris calls poverty a national shame at Federal Way MLK event
Summary
Carol Harris, a longtime activist and leader associated with the Poor People’s Campaign and SEIU, spoke at the City of Federal Way’s MLK Day celebration about poverty, personal hardship and continued organizing, saying "Poverty is America's shame" and urging people not to be silent.
Carol Harris, an activist with ties to the Poor People’s Campaign and a longtime union leader, urged attendees at the City of Federal Way’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day Community Celebration to treat poverty as an urgent moral and political issue, calling it “America’s shame.”
Harris described personal experiences of economic hardship and cited her work with the Poor People’s Campaign, including…
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