🐦 April 4 - Mayor Lumumba Planning Town Hall Event in Jackson MS with Bernie Sanders

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The City of Jackson just sent this press statement confirming that it is planning a town-hall meeting with Sen. Bernie Sanders:

Jackson, MS – The City of Jackson will be commemorating the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. King through a conversation titled, “Examining Economic Justice 50 Years Later.” This will be a moderated conversation between Senator Bernie Sanders and Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba.

The town hall will be held at the Alamo Theater in the Historic Farish Street District on April 4, 2018, from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. (doors open at 6 p.m.). A multimedia campaign to gather public input will launch Friday, March 30, 2018, and end Tuesday, April 3, 2018, to ensure diverse participation of Jacksonians pre, during and post the event. A limited number of question cards will be available from 6:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. the day of the event.

The commemoration is yet another effort by the Mayor to drive the development and sustainability of the people’s vision for the City of Jackson.

For more information, contact 601-960-1084.

http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2018/mar/28/mayor-lumumba-planning-town-hall-event-jackson-ber/

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1. Bernie Sanders, Chokwe Antar Lumumba - March on Mississippi. Nissan Rally 2017

When Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, NAACP president Cornell Williams Brooks, and actor Danny Glover joined thousands of Mississippians in marching for labor rights ..., economic and social justice activist Chokwe Antar Lumumba was in the thick of it. “I stand for workers’ rights,” Lumumba said, as the marchers converged on a Nissan plant where workers have been organizing for union protections. “[The] struggle does not cease and so we’re constantly in the battle of how we create self-determined lives for people. And we believe in human rights for human beings and you cannot support human rights if you’re not prepared to support workers’ rights. And so, we live in a world where you have so many with so little and so few with so much. And so, we’re trying to change that dynamic right here [in Mississippi]—we want to change the order of the world.”

The Washington-obsessed national media paid scant attention to that “March on Mississippi.” But it was big news in the state, sparking serious talk about the new wave of in-the-streets and at-the-polls activism that is sweeping the South ... that wave swept into Mississippi’s largest city, Jackson, where voters nominated Lumumba for mayor.

https://www.thenation.com/article/jackson-mississippi-just-chose-radical-leftist-chokwe-antar-lumumba-to-be-the-next-mayor/

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2. Demand forces city to change venue for Bernie Sanders, Mayor Lumumba town hall

Demand forces city to change venue for Bernie Sanders, Mayor Lumumba town hall

Published 3:35 p.m. CT March 30, 2018

High demand to see U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders join Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba in Jackson next week has forced the city to find a more accommodating venue.

Sanders and the mayor will be commemorating the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr at an event titled "Examining Economic Justice 50 Years Later."

The Wednesday event will now be held at Thalia Mara Hall at 255 E. Pascagoula St. in downtown Jackson, instead of the Alamo Theater in the city's Farish Street District.

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2018/03/30/demand-forces-city-change-venue-bernie-sanders-mayor-lumumba-town-hall/474303002/