“…until all have plenty, and no one is left in need.”  This is A Just Harvest’s vision of how the world should be.  We’d like to create a world where there is no need for emergency food distribution.  In other words, we’d like to put ourselves out of business.

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was articulating a similar vision when he launched the Poor People’s Campaign shortly before his assassination.  The Civil Rights Movement vanquished Jim Crow, but didn’t vanquish the poverty suffered by millions of African Americans.  Recognizing than great numbers of Americans of every race and ethnicity lived in poverty, Dr. King turned his sights on creating a multiracial movement that would vanquish poverty and create a more just economy – to ensure that “all have plenty, and no one is left in need.”

Although we no longer have state-sanctioned racial apartheid in America, we do live in an America with staggering economic inequality – an economic apartheid, if you will, which has only been increasing in recent decades.  A Just Harvest seeks to live MLK’s dream – to “Occupy the Dream”.

On January 15, 1,500 people of faith and community leaders came together to honor the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and promote policies that will alleviate hunger, poverty and growing income inequality.

This is a 5 minute video synopsis of the event:  (Click here to watch the FULL EVENT on YouTube.)