{"id":3510,"date":"2025-09-10T17:17:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T00:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/?p=3510"},"modified":"2025-09-10T17:17:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T00:17:17","slug":"the-war-economy-the-poor-peoples-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/the-war-economy-the-poor-peoples-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"The War Economy &amp; The Poor People\u2019s Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Author: Vicki Ryder<br>Tune: Battle Hymn of the Republic<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re rising in Seattle now and joining the campaign,<br>A task that wasn\u2019t finished when Rev\u2019rend King was slain.<br>Fifty years have come and gone but still his words ring true:<br>How\u2019s the war economy workin\u2019 out for you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CHORUS:<br>We are marching in the Poor People\u2019s Campaign,<br>With voices loud and fists raised high till there are no more chains.<br>And we\u2019ll keep marching forward, and we won\u2019t go back again!<br>Together we are strong!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They tell us there\u2019s no money now for jobs or health care plans,<br>There\u2019s always lots of money for their wars in far off lands.<br>They spend it all for war, and not for schools or homes, that\u2019s true.<br>How\u2019s the war economy workin\u2019 out for you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They spent three trillion dollars when they sent our kids to war.<br>Not all our kids, ya know, but just the brown, the black, the poor.<br>They had no hope of finding jobs in good ole USA.<br>How\u2019s the war economy workin\u2019 for them today?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CHORUS:<br>We are marching in the Poor People\u2019s Campaign,<br>With voices loud and fists raised high till there are no more chains.<br>And we\u2019ll keep marching forward, and we won\u2019t go back again!<br>Together we are strong!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Vicki RyderTune: Battle Hymn of the Republic We\u2019re rising in Seattle now and joining the campaign,A task that wasn\u2019t finished when Rev\u2019rend King was slain.Fifty years have come and gone but still his words ring true:How\u2019s the war economy workin\u2019 out for you? CHORUS:We are marching in the Poor People\u2019s Campaign,With voices loud and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[77],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510"}],"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=3510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}