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40 Years Ago Today

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:09:37 GMT

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The Freedom We Seek: Is the US a Just Society?

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:56:41 GMT

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The Freedom We Seek

40 years later, Dr. King's dream of a more just society is a long way from being realized.

"We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny," wrote Dr. King in 1963; he preached that oppression anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere. And by this measure, the freedom imposed by unrestrained capitalism and its social implications is not freedom at all, but rather an instrument of disunity and a symptom of social regress.

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MARTIN LUTHER KING: BEYOND "I HAVE A DREAM"

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:46:57 GMT

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Reclaiming King: Beyond "I Have a Dream"

People usually focus on the historic "I Have a Dream" speech, but it's the work King was doing at the end of his life that deserves more attention.

During the final two years of his life, King took on the far more complex de facto racism of northern cities like Chicago, addressed labor inequality, and took a very bold and highly criticized stance against the Vietnam War:

"As I have walked," King told the crowd assembled in Riverside Church a year before his assassination, "among the desperate, rejected and angry young men I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action.

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Racists Rally in Jena on MLK, Jr. Holiday

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:24:55 GMT

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Supremacists Celebrate Anti-King Rally In Jena, La.

The racist Nationalist Movement won the right to rally in Jena
After whipping the town of Jena, La., in a recent court battle, a White supremacist group is rubbing the city’s face in it by holding an anti-Martin Luther King Jr. Day march and rally there today.