Sisters Of The Road is hosting a longstanding community march today to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Join people experiencing homelessness, faith, labor and social justice organizations as we march throughout Portland to call attention to the local movement for economic human rights.
This is the 19th annual MLK Day March at Sisters of the Road. Speakers include Ibrahim Mubarak, co-founder of Dignity Village and Right 2 Survive, Claudia “Mama Chewy” Long, “dreamer” at Right 2 Dream Too, and Paul Boden, the Organizing Director of the Western Regional Advocacy Project in San Francisco.
The group says, “We will take our message of human rights through nonviolence and grass roots community organizing to Right 2 Dream Too, financial institutions that continue to profit off of massive home foreclosure, the Justice Center and City Hall where policies continue to be created and enforced that criminalize people for surviving homelessness and having nowhere to go.”
The gathering begins at Sisters Of The Road, 133 NW 6th Ave, for a rally at noon and begins marching at 12:30 p.m.