U.S. Peace & Justice

Martin Luther King: Remaining Awake through a Great Revolution

January 25, 2009
Martin Luther King: Remaining Awake through a Great Revolution

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...
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What Would Dr. King Tell President Obama?

January 25, 2009
What Would Dr. King Tell President Obama?

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...
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Why We Have to Look Back

January 22, 2009

By Cong. John Conyers (D-MI) Chairman, House Judiciary Committee The op-ed below was published in The Washington Post on Jan. 16, 2009. This week, I released “Reining in the Imperial Presidency,” a 486-page report detailing the abuses and excesses of the Bush administration and recommending steps to address them.
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Obama Needs a Protest Movement

January 17, 2009
Obama Needs a Protest Movement

by Frances Fox Piven The Nation, Dec. 1, 2008  The astonishing election of 2008 is over. Whatever else the future holds, the unchallenged domination of American national government by big business and thepolitical right has been broken. Even more amazing, Americans have elected an African-American as president. These facts alone are rightful cause for...
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Three Years After Katrina: A Chance to Rebuild

January 17, 2009

Three years after Hurricane Katrina, there’s finally a bill in Congress that will give all Katrina survivors a fair chance to rebuild their lives. But it won’t become law if your representative doesn’t stand up to support it. The Gulf Coast Civic Works Act would hire 100,000 Gulf Coast residents and evacuees, providing them...
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