KINGSTON, N.Y. A peaceful and passionate protest by hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators overflowed the sidewalks and shut down Wall Street Thursday evening directly in front of U.S. Rep. Pat Ryan’s city office, demanding he support a cease-fire in Gaza. Across the street, and also spilling off the sidewalk at times, a smaller crowd of […]
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The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. March for Social and Economic Justice in Poughkeepsie began in 1996 and became an annual activist event until a few years ago. This year, during COVID-19, it was held virtually, and hosted by one of the original organizers former Dutchess County Legislator Joel Tyner. Tyner resigned in Janaury 2019 amid sexual harassment allegations and then moved across the country. Yet Zoom brought together some of the usual participants.
That’s folk singer Pat Lammana, who credited the song.
“So this song was written by David Heitler-Klevans,” Lammana says. “I think it’s a song that Dr. King would’ve liked if he had heard it, but it was written long after he passed.”