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		<title>Martin Luther King: Remaining Awake through a Great Revolution</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpts from a sermon preached by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. four days before he was assassinated.    We are coming to ask America to be true to the huge promissory note that it signed years ago. And we are coming to engage in dramatic nonviolent action, to call attention to the gulf between promise and fulfillment; to make the invisible visible. Why do we do it this way? We do it this way because it is our experience that the nation doesn&#8217;t move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until it is confronted massively, dramatically in terms of direct action&#8230;. And I submit that nothing will be done until people of goodwill put their bodies and their souls in motion. And it will be the kind of soul force brought into being as a result of this confrontation that I believe will make the difference. Yes, it will be a Poor People&#8217;s Campaign. This is the question facing America. Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation. America has not met its obligations and its responsibilities to the poor. One day we will have to stand before the God of history and we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Would Dr. King Tell President Obama?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Honey The Progressive Online, January 19, 2009 What would Martin Luther King, Jr., whose birthday we celebrate on January ninetenth, say to Barack Obama, inaugurated as President of the United States on January twentieth? A friend of mine is judging student essays on that question for the King Holiday. It is a good question, with answers that might surprise some people. King thought in terms of progressive phases of history. He saw phase one of the American freedom movement as the struggle for legal integration, equal opportunity, and full voting rights. That struggle was most intense between 1955 and 1965, crowned by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This is what most people think of when they think of King. After that, King demanded a phase two, which he defined as a struggle for economic equality. He didn&#8217;t mean we would all make the same income, but that the playing field should be levelled up somewhat for poor and working people. &#8220;Something is wrong with capitalism as it now stands in the United States,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.&#8221; In phase two, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post-Racial Society in America? We Aren&#8217;t There Yet</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Fred McKissack November 5, 2008  Moments after CNN declared Sen. Barack Obama the next president of the United States, I called my parents. I could tell my father was beaming. Through Obama, he could see the future for his grandsons and their peers &#8211; a collective sense of inclusion that has eluded the race for so long. My mother cried when she recited the litany of things they&#8217;d lived through: Emmett Till, four little girls in Birmingham, Schwerner, Goodman, and Chaney, Bloody Sunday, JFK, MLK, RFK, Chicago in &#8217;68, Detroit, Watts, Newark, and Katrina. Then, as folks would say, the spirit hit her. &#8220;Yes, we can,&#8221; she yelled. &#8220;Yes, we can. Yes, we can. Yes-we-can.&#8221; It was an unforgettable moment. But after a night&#8217;s sleep, I couldn&#8217;t help but think that now we&#8217;re going to hear, as we did after Obama&#8217;s triumph in the Iowa caucuses, the absurd talk about post-racial America. Exactly how can we be in post-racial America when nearly 40 percent of black children under the age of 5 live at or below the poverty line? How are we in post-racial America when the level of school segregation for Hispanics is the highest in the forty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making the Link Between Iraq and Vietnam</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Making the Link Between Iraq and Vietnam: Adapting the words of Martin Luther King about Vietnam to the war in Iraq 1) It&#8217;s time to break the silence over the war in Iraq and take a stand&#8230; We are all responsible for ending the war&#8230; The great initiative to begin this war was ours, the great initiative to end it must be ours. 2) The war is an enemy of the poor in Iraq, destroying lives, uprooting families, diverting immense resources to destruction, and robbing the poor at home. It places an unfair burden on soldiers and military families, projecting violence as a solution to problems, destroying hope for peace, and losing the soul of America in the process. 3) The Iraqis must see us as strange liberators&#8230; The world stands aghast at what we are doing&#8230; The war is destroying Iraq as a nation, a culture, and creating millions of refugees. It is leaving a legacy of bitterness among the Iraqi people in a war that has more to do with privatizing Iraq&#8217;s oil and establishing permanent U.S. military bases than liberating the Iraqi people.  4) We must speak as children of God, as brothers and sisters to the suffering poor, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Time Comes When Silence Is Betrayal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Riverside Church, New York, April 4, 1967 A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. The truth of these words is beyond doubt, but the mission to which they call us is a most difficult one. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government&#8217;s policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one&#8217;s own bosom and in the surrounding world. Moreover, when the issues at hand seem as perplexed as they often do in the case of this dreadful conflict, we are always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty; but we must move on. And some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak. And we must rejoice as well, for surely this is the first time [...]]]></description>
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