{"id":3443,"date":"2025-09-04T18:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T01:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/?p=3443"},"modified":"2025-09-04T18:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T01:17:13","slug":"the-poor-peoples-campaign-a-moral-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/the-poor-peoples-campaign-a-moral-revival\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poor Peoples Campaign: A Moral Revival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By Vicki Ryder<br>Tune: Acres of Clams<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s something that\u2019s troubling the grannies.<br>We toss and we turn late at night.<br>Wond\u2019rin why there are so many hungry<br>In a land that\u2019s so rich, that ain\u2019t right (spoken!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>CHORUS<br>It\u2019s time for a moral revival<br>Come join the Poor Peoples Campaign<br>To end poverty in our nation<br>Come join the Poor Peoples Campaign<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government spends all our taxes<br>For fighting in lands far away,<br>Killing woman and kids without reason.<br>It\u2019s no wonder our hair\u2019s turning gray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They\u2019re drilling and fracking and dumping,<br>To fatten their wallets, you see.<br>They don\u2019t really care if we live or die!<br>It\u2019s enough to make Mother Earth weep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CHORUS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>E-qui-ty for all the people<br>They say is the law of the land<br>But our system is blatantly racist<br>Together for justice we stand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CHORUS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Repeat chorus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Vicki RyderTune: Acres of Clams There\u2019s something that\u2019s troubling the grannies.We toss and we turn late at night.Wond\u2019rin why there are so many hungryIn a land that\u2019s so rich, that ain\u2019t right (spoken!) CHORUSIt\u2019s time for a moral revivalCome join the Poor Peoples CampaignTo end poverty in our nationCome join the Poor Peoples Campaign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[77],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}