{"id":4763,"date":"2020-07-18T14:17:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T19:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/?p=4763"},"modified":"2020-07-18T14:17:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T19:17:15","slug":"texas-poor-peoples-campaign-at-work-in-waxahachie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/2020\/07\/18\/texas-poor-peoples-campaign-at-work-in-waxahachie\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Poor People&#8217;s Campaign at work in Waxahachie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Dallas environmental news website tells story of organization working to help local residents<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">In a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greensourcedfw.org\/articles\/dallas-activists-sow-seeds-environmental-justice-waxahachie\" target=\"_blank\">post on July 17, 2020<\/a>, Dallas-area based website <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greensourcedfw.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Green Source DFW <\/a>shared the story on the work of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poorpeoplescampaign.org\/committee\/texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Texas Poor People&#8217;s Campaign<\/a> in Waxahachie and how a community garden is the symbol of their effort to bring hope to those in need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The organization, which intends to revive the work of Dr. Martin Luther King&#8217;s Poor People&#8217;s March by representing the needs of the disenfranchised and impoverished, has begun to hold events in Waxahachie to meet the challenges of Ellis County as it faces a <a href=\"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/ellis-county-unemployment-rate-at-20-year-high\/\">20-year record high unemployment rate<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the center of the organization&#8217;s three-day Tent City event held in mid-June was a sprucing up of the community garden in Waxahachie&#8217;s Freedman&#8217;s Plaza on Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. Organizers distributed food aid, planted vegetables in the garden and taught lessons on how to compost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greensourcedfw.org\/articles\/dallas-activists-sow-seeds-environmental-justice-waxahachie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a post on July 17, 2020, Dallas-area based website Green Source DFW shared the story on the work of the Texas Poor People&#8217;s Campaign in Waxahachie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"Texas Poor People&#039;s Campaign at work in Waxahachie","_seopress_titles_desc":"Dallas environmental news website tells story of organization working to help local residents.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"Waxahachie, unemployment, garden","_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[26,27,15],"class_list":["post-4763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-life","tag-community-garden","tag-unemployment","tag-waxahachie","infinite-scroll-item","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}