The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929βApril 4, 1968) was the charismatic leader of the U.S. civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. He directed the year-long Montgomery bus boycott, which attracted scrutiny by a wary, divided nation, but his leadership and the resulting Supreme Court ruling against bus segregation brought him fame. He formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to coordinate nonviolent protests and delivered over 2,500 speeches addressing racial injustice, but his life was cut short by an assassin in 1968.
Martin Luther King Jr. was born January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, to Michael King Sr., pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, and Alberta Williams, a Spelman College graduate and former schoolteacher. King lived with his parents, a sister, and a brother in the Victorian home of his maternal grandparents.
After attending the World Baptist Alliance in Berlin in 1934, King Sr. changed his and his son's name from Michael King to Martin Luther King, after the Protestant reformist. King Sr. was inspired by Martin Luther's courage of confronting institutionalized evil.
King studied sociology and considered law school while reading voraciously. He was fascinated by Henry David Thoreau's essay "On Civil Disobedience" and its idea of noncooperation with an unjust system. King decided that social activism was his calling and religion the best means to that end. He was ordained as a minister in February 1948, the year he graduated with a sociology degree at age 19.
In September 1948, King entered the predominately White Crozer Theological Seminary in Upland, Pennsylvania. He read works by great theologians but despaired that no philosophy was complete within itself. Then, hearing a lecture about Mahatma Gandhi, he became captivated by his concept of nonviolent resistance. King concluded that the Christian doctrine of love, operating through nonviolence, could be a powerful weapon for his people.
In 1951, King graduated at the top of his class with a Bachelor of Divinity degree. In September of that year, he enrolled in doctoral studies at Boston University's School of Theology.
While in Boston, King met Coretta Scott, a singer studying voice at the New England Conservatory of Music. The couple married on June 18, 1953.
When King arrived in Montgomery to join the Dexter Avenue church, Rosa Parks, secretary of the local NAACP chapter, had been arrested for refusing to relinquish her bus seat to a White man. Parks' December 1, 1955, arrest presented the perfect opportunity to make a case for desegregating the transit system.
E.D. Nixon, former head of the local NAACP chapter, and the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, a close friend of King, contacted King and other clergymen to plan a citywide bus boycott. The group drafted demands and stipulated that no Black person would ride the buses on December 5.
That day, nearly 20,000 Black citizens refused bus rides. Because Black people comprised 90% of the passengers, most buses were empty. When the boycott ended 381 days later, Montgomery's transit system was nearly bankrupt.
On February 1959 he laid six principles, explaining that nonviolence:
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Is not a method for cowards; it does resist
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Does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding
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Is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil
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Is a willingness to accept suffering without retaliation, to accept blows from the opponent without striking back
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Avoids not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit
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Is based on the conviction that the universe is on the side of justice
In April 1963, King and the SCLC joined Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights in a nonviolent campaign to end segregation and force Birmingham, Alabama, businesses to hire Black people. Fire hoses and vicious dogs were unleashed on the protesters by βBullβ Connor's police officers. King was thrown into jail. King spent eight days in the Birmingham jail as a result of this arrest but used the time to write "Letter From a Birmingham Jail," affirming his peaceful philosophy.
On October 14th, 1964, King won the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance. In 1965, he helped organize the Selma to Montgomery marches. In his final years, he expanded his focus to include opposition towards poverty, capitalism, and the Vietnam War.
For his activism, he was the target of multiple assassination attempts, arrested 23 times, and surveilled and harassed by the police. In particular, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover harassed Dr. King by making him a target of COINTELPRO, a secret program where FBI agents spied on, infiltrated, and attempted to discredit "subversive" political movements.
In 1968, King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference organized the "Poor People's Campaign" to address issues of economic justice. King traveled the country to assemble "a multiracial army of the poor" that would march on Washington to engage in nonviolent civil disobedience at the Capitol until Congress created an "economic bill of rights" for poor Americans.
Before the plans for the march could come to fruition, however, King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee while supporting striking black sanitation workers. James Earl Rey was convicted for the murder, but speculation of government involvement has persisted for decades after his death.
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What would be the feasibility of running a non-profit gig app? Like, a food delivery app at its very core is just facilitating interaction between the customer, restaurant, and driver. Not even necessarily the restaurant, the customer can handle that and just tell the driver what to pick up.
That should be relatively easy to do and cheap to host. Either have some small portion of the delivery fee go to hosting costs (and the rest to the driver) or run entirely on donations.
Edit: I think it would be better to think of it as a tool than as a service. The absolute minimum viable product is so barebones (basically a glorified notice board) I think I could make a proof-of-concept website.
Nearly impossible for an app but you can for sure create some sort of meals on wheels service and if you're in a big enough place there will be some restaurants with 'socially concious'small business tyrants who will happily cook up some stuff thst was gonna need to be tossed soon if it didn't sell, if you know cooks or people working at grocery stores arrange for a 'clean dumpster dive' as I called it when I worked at an organic grocery store thst tossed mad product. Basically if you can't sell it but it's still good and you've got sympathetic people on the inside, they can wrap or protect the good stuff and put it in a different garbage bag (trash bags aren't good safe, so wrap or bag everything inside if you can) and put it at an agreed drop spot out back while you're tossing the rest in the dumpster. If you know when places are closing you can just go grab the bags soon after and it's a fun sneaky dead drop that makes you feel cool. I guarantee staff is down as hell but management can be an issue and also this is a health code violation so watch your ass there, if you're an official org you'll get in trouble, if you're diy, no one will care. If you don't have people on the inside or don't have a way to make thsr happen that you know of, every leftist organization is chock full of dishwashers and cooks. If that doesn't work, look for people on smoke breaks outside of restaurants, you can probably get something going cause cooks hate food waste, it's depressing to see how much perfectly good eats we putneffort into get tossed and everyone wants to stick it to the bosses who would rather throw food away than not sell it. Going wide scale and legit will compromise you in this situation.
Not a developer but my main concern would be the problem with handling financial transactions securely. You need someone to have liability when everything goes to shit and doing that for a non-profit means you have a high risk and no reward setup.
You set it up, hackers breach and take information, you're out of millions because you don't have the capital to fight court cases or professionally secure your app.
Presumably some service like Stripe or Paypal, which I guess would be a bit of an expense. There's also Apple Pay and Google Pay. If it's just transaction fee based, that can be transparently passed on to the customer.
Would you even need to store information? Stripe handles the payment info and minimum viable product would be customer address stored locally or not stored at all, just passed along to the driver.
Again, not a developer but I don't think you can just embed a third-party payment service into an app without acting as an intermediary for that information. You have to send that information to paypal somehow, unless you force the user to open up the third-party app and send it manually. Another minor concern is what good is an "Open-Source" application if it is built upon closed-source software to be functional.
Even if you don't store info, there could still be people in the middle looking at it. Even if the data is never stored, if someone gained access to your system they could certainly copy it while its being sent to whatever third-party.
You can. With PayPal for example it pops up a PayPal window where you pay and PayPal just returns a confirmation to the website. The payment information gets sent directly from the user's device to PayPal. Or more likely PayPal already had the payment information and the user just logs in directly.
The purpose isn't to be open source (although it would be as open as possible), it's to provide an alternative to exploitative gig apps.
That's pretty basic security. It's definitely a factor to consider, but it's not exactly a major feat or expensive. I'm sure hexbear already does it fine.
I think it might be possible. Like craigslist exists and I have no idea how they pay for server bandwidth.
Honestly does it even need mapping and routing functionality? Just give the driver the two addresses and they can use their own maps app. Pick drivers by crow flies distance to the restaurant, or just make it essentially a task board.