Rev. Bruce Wright, a veteran and elder in the independent movement to end poverty, joined the ancestors on January 30th 2021. Rev. Wright was a revolutionary and General in the Poor People’s Army (Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign), a revolutionary movement led by the poor for three decades. He declared independence from corporate politics and corporate money because he knew the people impacted by the ills of capitalism should be on the front lines leading the fight to end poverty. Knowing a need-based society was possible, and the only morally correct position one can take, Rev. Wright fought with the Poor People’s Army to build a multi-racial, intergenerational, and international movement to end poverty.
Rev. Wright, working with the League of Revolutionaries for a New America, regularly studied and was conscious of the qualitative changes in our economy and the immediate necessity of developing new organizing strategies with others. He often spoke of technological advancements and laborless production that have fundamentally transformed the economic base of America and created a new class of permanently under and unemployed people. The new class is made up of people from a diversity of backgrounds and identities. He worked to organize and educate this new class about the new social, economic, and political realities that cannot be ignored, and demanded we bypass the corporate reformist strategies of the nonprofit industrial complex and major political parties.
Bruce understood the growing fascist trends at the top of US society and knew that building a movement across color lines was required to build class identity and unity. Join us in remembering the legacy of Rev. Wright and use his passing as a reminder that a people-centered human rights worldview must be based on the politics of love. RC
March/April 2021 Vol31. Ed2
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