At a Poor People's hearing in Wichita, Kansas, Roberta Hickman, the wife and daughter-in-law of veterans who both died of the after-affects of their military service, emphasizes the problems of a war economy that is funded with hundreds of billions of tax dollars a year, but is designed to enrich those whose business it is to wage war as we count down from one hundred days to the Poor People’s Campaign Digital Mass Poor People’s Assembly and Moral March on Washington on June 20th, hearing directly from people all across the country who make up the millions who are impacted by the interlocking evils of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism and the war economy, and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism. (Recorded October 8th, 2018)
