Martin Luther King Jr

For Whom the Bell Tolls

January 23, 2014 Kathy Kelly, , www.truth-out.org Educate! Martin Luther King Jr

On the same day they learned of the King Center’s call, the young members of the Afghan Peace Volunteers, in a home I was sharing with them in Kabul, were grieving the fresh news of seven Afghan children and their mother, killed in the night during a U.S. aerial attack — part of a battle in the Siahgird district of the Parwan province. The outrage, grief, loss and pain felt in Siahgird were echoed, horribly, in other parts of Afghanistan during a very violent week. My young friends, ever inspired by Dr. King’s message, prepared a Dr. King Day observance as they shared bread and tea for breakfast. They talked about the futility of war and the predictable cycles of revenge that are caused every time someone is killed. Then they made a poster listing each of the killings they had learned of in the previous seven days.

Portland MLK Rally Honors More Radical King

On Friday January 17th, over 150 supporters of people without housing and day laborers marched to Portland City Hall to demand the City Council live up to King’s vision of a truly compassionate society, one that does not require some people to live in impoverished conditions, while others reap the rewards of avarice. The boisterous crowd called on City leadership to start acting on behalf of all people in the city, not just the business interests. Day laborers and people without housing have been under attack by the City. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Laborer Center, which serves as a safe place off the street where employers and workers can contract for daily work, and also provides classes to help people improve their work and language skills finds itself on unstable ground.

Dr. King: Beyond The Dreamer, A Personal Story

January 20, 2014 Gar Alperovitz, www.sojo.net Educate! Civil Rights, Martin Luther King Jr, MLK

IN THE LAST YEAR of his life, Martin Luther King Jr. struggled with what are best understood as existential challenges as he began to move toward an ever-more-profound and radical understanding of what would be required to deal with the nation’s domestic and international problems. The direction he was exploring, I believe, is far more relevant to the realities we now face than many have realized—or have wanted to realize. I first met King in 1964 at the Democratic Party’s national convention held that year in Atlantic City—the occasion of an historic challenge by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to the racially segregated and reactionary Mississippi Democratic Party. I was then a very young aide working for Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin.

Peace Activists Honor Dr. King By Nuclear Weapons Action

January 20, 2014 Leonard Eiger, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Martin Luther King Jr, MLK, Nuclear Weapons, Wars and Militarism

On January 18, 2014 activists from a Puget Sound-based nuclear abolition group engaged in a nonviolent direct action at the US Navy's West Coast nuclear submarine and nuclear weapons base. Members of Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action held a peaceful vigil and nonviolent direct action at the main gate to Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor in Silverdale, Washington. They protested the U.S. government’s continued deployment of the Trident nuclear weapons system, and increasing military presence in Asia due to its Asia-Pacific Pivot. Its continued reliance on nuclear weapons as an instrument of foreign policy by force projection is in contravention of both U.S. and international laws.

If MLK Were Alive Today (video)

January 20, 2014 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.PopularResistance.org Resistance Report Criminal Justice and Prisons, Environment, Government, Martin Luther King Jr, MLK, MLK Speeches, Nonviolence, Oppression, Popular Resistance, Race, Racism, Wars and Militarism, Worker Rights and Jobs

No one can say what King would be doing or saying if government agencies at the local, state and federal level (including the FBI and CIA with an assist from a Mafia henchman) had not conspired to murder him.

Reflection On Dr. King: Connect The Dots

August 30, 2013 Michelle Alexander, www.PopularResistance.org Strategize! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Finance and the Economy, Martin Luther King Jr

The most important lesson we can learn from Dr. King is not what he said at the March on Washington, but what he said and did after. In the years that followed, he did not play politics to see what crumbs a fundamentally corrupt system might toss to the beggars of justice. Instead he connected the dots and committed himself to building a movement that would shake the foundations of our economic and social order, so that the dream he preached in 1963 might one day be a reality for all. He said that nothing less than "a radical restructuring of society" could possibly ensure justice and dignity for all. He was right. I am still committed to building a movement to end mass incarceration, but I will not do it with blinders on. If all we do is end mass incarceration, this movement will not have gone nearly far enough. A new system of racial and social control will be born again, all because we did not do what King demanded we do: connect the dots between poverty, racism, militarism and materialism. I'm getting out of my lane. I hope you're already out of yours.

The Dream: A Movement Without Beginning Or End

August 30, 2013 Kazu Haga, www.wagingnonviolence.org Educate! Finance and the Economy, Martin Luther King Jr, Racism, Worker Rights and Jobs

I like to bring attention to King’s early speeches and writings. When King laid out his agenda as a minister in 1948, he mentioned unemployment, slums and economic insecurity. He didn’t even mention civil rights. How many people know that? King became a civil rights leader because of Rosa Parks. If not for that, he probably would have become a minister like Cecil Williams, helping to deal with poverty and homelessness. He probably would have concentrated on what he called the social gospel. He was always reluctant to take on the mantle of civil rights leadership. If he had lived longer, he would have been working on those issues. I think he was most consistent with his initial vision at the end of his life.

I Have a Dream, a Blurred Vision

August 30, 2013 Michael Parenti, www.dandelionsalad.wordpress.com Educate! Finance and the Economy, Martin Luther King Jr, Poverty, Racism, Video, Wars and Militarism

The 50th anniversary of the March on Washington—in which Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. made his famed “I Have a Dream” speech—has recently won renewed attention from various print and electronic media in the United States. But the more attention given to King’s extraordinary speech, the less we seem to know about King himself, the less aware we are about the serious challenges he was presenting, challenges that remain urgent and ignored to this very day. The opinion-makers prefer to treat Martin Luther King as an inspirational icon rather than a radical leader. He has been domesticated and sanitized. Today the real King probably would not be invited to the White House because he is too far left, too much the agitator. In 1967, he was becoming an increasingly serious problem for the defenders of privilege and profit. King came out against the Vietnam War that year, a fact that is seldom mentioned today.

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