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MLK People’s Convention

April 26, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

MARTIN LUTHER KING
PEOPLE’S CONVENTION FOR
JUSTICE & RESISTANCE

SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 2025
8:30 A.M. — 4:00 P.M.

ESSEX COUNTY COLLEGE
303 UNIVERSITY AVENUE
NEWARK, N.J.

Sponsored by People’s Organization for Progress. Endorsed by Local 108 Retail Wholesale Department Store Union UFCW AFL-CIO; Newark Branch NAACP; Morris County Branch NAACP; New Jersey Black Issues Convention; International Black Women’s Congress; African Diaspora for Justice; New Jersey Poor People’s Campaign; International Union of Painters and Allied Trades District Council 21; South Ward Environmental Alliance; 350 NJ-Rockland, Greenfaith International; New Jersey Green Sustainable Group; December 12th Movement; Clinton Hill Seniors In Action; New Jersey Peace Action; Ceasefire Now NJ; Jewish Voice for Peace Northern New Jersey Chapter; SOMA Collective for Palestine; Pax Christi; Jersey City Non-Violence Coalition; Stevens Institute Students for Justice in Palestine; Elombe Brath Coalition; Omega Psi Phi-Upsilon Chapter; Corey Lewis Teague; Hudson County Sierra Club; Bread Is Rising; Newark North Jersey Committee Of Black Churchmen; Hafiz Farid/ Foremost Productions; Food & Water Watch; Marques-Aquil Lewis Civic Association; Black Lives Matter Elizabeth; National United Youth Council; Irvington NAACP; Make The Road New Jersey; New Brunswick Area Branch NAACP; Seton Hall University Martin Luther King Scholarship Association; Tom Paine Brigade; Hoboken United Tenants; Jersey City Food Not Bombs; Hackensack Riverkeeper, Inc.; HPAE Local 5089; Bethany Baptist Church; All Politics Are Local; National Black
Political Convention; Man Village Men’s Support Group; Islay Walden Education Alliance; New Jersey Communities for Accountable Policing; New Jersey Chapter of the National Action Network; Jumpstart; Journey To Justice; Greater Newark Chapter of the National Action Network; Committee To Eliminate Media Offensive To African People; NAACP New Jersey State Conference; African- American Commission of Camden; Gregory Thomas Foundation; Grandmaster Khalil’s Generation II
Ippon Do School of Martial Arts; The Law And Policy Group; Mt.Teman AME Church; MAPSO Freedom School; Good Neighbor Baptist Church; Newark Interfaith Alliance; The Radical Elders; The Muslim League of Voters of New Jersey; Philadelphia Black Radical Congress; and North Jersey Black Caucus for Social Justice.

For more information or to register for the convention email info@njpop.org

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  • Date: April 26, 2025
  • Time:
    9:00 am - 4:00 pm

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