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Contents
January 21, 2013
MLKJr. Events in Fayetteville 2013
King’s 1967 Riverside Speech
Dick: Governor
Beebe and True King
Pro-Labor King
Remembering Anti-War King, Veterans for Peace
Who Killed King?
Pepper’s 2003 Book
Contents January 20,
2014
UAF Events Jan. 20-, 2014
King vs. US Bigotry, PBS Film A Class Divided
King vs. US Wars
and Wars
Petition to Pastors Against Wars
Antiwar Resolution
King on Source of Wars: Profits
King on US Capitalism and Poverty
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NWA and U of A Communities Come Together to Celebrate Martin
Luther King, Jr. Day
March, vigil and banquet
are highlights of the holiday
Thursday,
January 16, 2014
Annual MLK Day march in Fayetteville
Prior to the march the City of Fayetteville
The MLK
vigil will begin at noon, immediately following the march, in the Verizon
Ballroom in the Arkansas Union ,
and the public is welcome. The event will feature a video montage of scenes
from the civil rights struggle in the 1950s and 60s, a video of Dr. King’s 1963
speech during the Great March on Washington
The vigil is sponsored by the Associated
Student Government, the Multicultural
Center
That evening the
NWA Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Council will host the 18thannual Recommitment Banquet, beginning at 7 p.m. in
the Fayetteville Town Center
During the banquet local high school and
college students will be awarded MLK scholarships from the council, and the
annual Salute to Greatness will recognize four individuals and one organization
for outstanding community service.
This year the
banquet’s keynote address will be delivered in the form of a one act play,
“Bound by Blood”, written and directed by Clinnesha D. Sibley, associate
professor of drama at the University of Arkansas, and performed by U of A drama
students Britney Walker-Merritte and Brandyn Smith. The play is part of
Sibley’s trilogy, King Me: Three One Act Plays Inspired by the Life and Legacy of
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Banquet ticket
information is available at 479-575-4825 orhttp://www.nwamlk.org/mlk-banquet/tickets.
Several other events are also scheduled as
part of the MLK Day celebration.
A Blanket, Hat, Scarf, and Glove Drive is
being held all day Saturday, Jan. 18 at the St. James Missionary Baptist
Church, 764 W. North Street in Fayetteville. The MLK Council will be collecting
new and gently used blankets for the Peace at Home Family Shelter and will also
be making fleece blankets for children in the shelter. The U of A Center for
Community Engagement is working with the Office of Diversity in the Sam M.
Walton College
A memorial service, honoring Dr. King’s
life and legacy will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan.19, at St. James Missionary
Baptist Church. Eli Jones, dean of the Sam M. Walton College
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day will begin in Fayetteville 491 N. Razorback
Rd.
At 2 p.m. Monday, Jan. 20, Arvest Bank on
the Fayetteville Square will host a reception in its main lobby to honor the
spirit and memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Charles Robinson, vice
chancellor for diversity and community and professor of history at the
University of Arkansas will be the featured speaker. The Holcomb Elementary
School Choir, directed by Paula Aldama, will also perform.
The MLK Day observance will conclude on
Wednesday, Jan. 22, with a Day of Service event from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.in the
Arkansas Union Connections Lounge. The event has been organized by the
university’s student Volunteer Action Committee. A dozen local agencies and programs
will have on-site service projects set up in the Lounge for any students,
faculty, staff or community members who want to help out. Volunteers can also
help pack the scarves, gloves and hats collected during the winter clothing
drive.
Contacts:
Beverly Keown,
president
NWA MLK Council
479-466-2315, bkeown@nwamlk.org
NWA MLK Council
479-466-2315, bkeown@nwamlk.org
Steve Voorhies, manager of media relations
University Relations
479-575-3
University Relations
479-575-3
King’s
compassion arose from his locating the sources of racist bigotry, wars, and
poverty in the structures of society, its myths and institutions. We must change those if we are to end
bigotry, wars, and poverty. --Dick
Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes
from the book
The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Martin%20Luther%20King/MLKing_quotes.html
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KING VS. US
Everyday. somewhere in
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
International Campaign for
Awareness of King's Condemnation of U.S. Wars and the "unjust overseas
predatory investments they are meant to maintain."
In remembrance of Martin Luther King, an international campaign to petition pastors of all faiths to condemn ongoingUS wars in a half-dozen innocent poor nations in the Middle
East as King would have mightily condemned them. King was
murdered after fiercely condemning US wars maintaining predatory investments
all around the world.
In remembrance of Martin Luther King, an international campaign to petition pastors of all faiths to condemn ongoing
This
King Condemned US Wars Revival was kicked off at Riverside Church
If you believe in Martin Luther King's dream and that King rightly condemned U.S. imperialist wars, please add your support to that of former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, author of the Civil Rights Acts.
In this age of instant communication a few thousand King followers will awaken many millions to what King taught about these wars and their causes. The world wide beloved image of King will be the catalyst for people everywhere to realize their capability to make wars unacceptable.
The http://kingcondemneduswars.blogspot.com/ campaign is in memory of Howard Zinn’s radio broadcasts’ call to echo Martin Luther King's sermon, BeyondVietnam
Dr. Cornell West, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Rev. Bruce Southworth (see complete list)
If you believe in Martin Luther King's dream and that King rightly condemned U.S. imperialist wars, please add your support to that of former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, author of the Civil Rights Acts.
In this age of instant communication a few thousand King followers will awaken many millions to what King taught about these wars and their causes. The world wide beloved image of King will be the catalyst for people everywhere to realize their capability to make wars unacceptable.
The http://kingcondemneduswars.blogspot.com/ campaign is in memory of Howard Zinn’s radio broadcasts’ call to echo Martin Luther King's sermon, Beyond
Dr. Cornell West, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Rev. Bruce Southworth (see complete list)
Origin and Goals
King Condemned US Wars & Unjust Overseas Predatory
Investments
Petition to All Pastors
In remembrance of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., we ask that you forthrightly and unequivocally condemn this blowing apart of our brothers and sisters and their children all around the world just as King condemned it.
We ask further that you condemn, as King did, the lies used to justify the murder and maiming of families in their own homes and villages, and the subversion, destabilization and destruction of their homelands in the interests of predatory investments,
Finally, just as Dr. King, in his sermon Beyond Vietnam - a Time to Break Silence, recounted to us the history of the lies, from 1945 onward, used to trick Americans into supporting the Vietnam war, we ask you to expose the lies that have concealed secret arrangements for CIA covert crimes against humanity in the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere in the world since 1953, - arrangements that always originate within a dominant financial element that rules our society through ownership and manipulation of 98% of all electronic and print media sources of information.
Reverend, please repeat Martin Luther King’s public denunciation of American homicide abroad, currently being heartlessly practiced in six Muslim nations. King cried out, “The Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World Today is My Own Government,” “Every man of humane convictions must protest, we must all protest.” King warned us, “Silence is betrayal” "The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those, who in times of moral crisis, maintain neutrality."
King was silenced so the imperialist wars he condemned could go on. We are no longer silent. May our clergy lead us in prosecuting those promoting war.
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Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Petition to All Pastors (short version -abbreviated from the full
worded Petition)
In remembrance of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., we ask that you forthrightly and unequivocally condemn this blowing apart of our brothers and sisters and their children all around the world just as King condemned it.
We call upon you to repeat Martin Luther King’s, public denunciation of American homicide abroad and the unjust overseas predatory investments Dr. King said these US wars are intended to force upon vulnerable nations.
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RESOLUTION PROPOSED FOR ALL ANTIWAR
CONVENTIONS
A recent week-end national conference of antiwar
organizations saw the introduction of the following prescient resolution by a
Korean war veteran, long a member of Veterans For Peace:
"Whereas
during WW II and the Allied occupation of Germany afterward, we soldiers, our
folks back home and the citizens of the Germany invaded, bombed, and occupied
nations in their hearts, to a great degree, held the German people responsible
for the crimes of their soldiers and government, and
- whereas
there be few adult Americans, who are not in some way or another complicit in
the crimes against humanity of their brothers and sisters in colonially
impoverished nations since WW II,
Be it resolved -
- that we will seek to make the public aware of its
power to end war acceptance; end war capability in our society; be aware of our
citizen responsibility for the crimes against humanity illegally ordered by our
elected public servants; and consider the shame of our participation. For
during the year before his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr. demanded
Americans take responsibility for the wars that were atrocities, agonizing over
his own previous silence."
King was planning a march of the poor on Washington
after condemning the wars and the "unjust predatory investments they are
meant to maintain," the Bertrand Russell - Jean-Paul Satre Vietnam War
Tribunal was in the news and at the trial for sedition of Benjamin Spock,
King's prospective running mate should have decided to run for president,
lawyers were attempting to introduce the Nuremberg Principles of Crimes Against
Humanity. King taught that the American people are responsibility for the wars
and have the capability to make them unacceptable and inoperable through
non-participation.When enough citizens are allowed to know all this, it will
happen just as King demanded that it happen.
Getting to Know "A Time to Break
Silence!"
Martin Luther King Postal Stamp
Blog Archive
About King Condemned U.S.
Noam Chomsky-"America must prosecute
its own war criminals"; Chomsky and Ed Herman, "If the Nuremberg laws
were applied, then every post-war American president would have been
hanged"; Former US Att. Gen. Ramsey Clark, author of "US War Crimes
in the Gulf, “The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign
policy"; Elliot Adams, former President, Veterans For Peace, author of
"The indictment of President Obama and all who follow his criminal
orders"-read at the US Air Force Drone Base, Hancock, NY; Rev. Jeremiah
Wright-"God Damn America for her crimes against humanity"; Cindy
Sheehan,”War criminals need to go to prison for what they have done, no
pardon”; Cornel West, "Drones are War Crimes!"; KIm Peterson,
Dissident Voice, “Justice is required, otherwise what would serve as a brake on
future war crimes?” Bill Blum, AntiEmpire Report; Tom Feeley, publisher of
Information Clearing House; Angela Keaton, Antiwar.com/Come Home America’;
peoples historian jay janson, coordinator, King Condemned US Wars International
Awareness and of this website. Full list at page bottom.
MLKjr on Source of Wars
MLKjr on Source of Wars
“Look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the country. This is a role our nation has taken, … refusing to give up the privileges and the pleasures that comes from the immense profits of overseas investments. This is not just.”
"The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is my
own government."
Endorsements
Medical Journal of Therapeutics
Fellowship of Reconciliation
Pax Christi International Pastors For Peace
Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Thomas Merton Center Anti-War Committee Manhattan Mennonite Fellowship Father Paul Mayer Climate Crisis Coalition Dr. Serene Jones, Union Theological Seminary Rev. Emmanuel Char. McCarthy, (Byzantine- Melkite) Center for Christian Nonviolence Dr. Cornel West Father Simon Harak, S.J.
Father Jude,
Rabbi Michael Lerner Bruce Gagnon, Global Net Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
Veterans For Peace
former
Pete Seeger, folksinger
Wynton Marsalis, trumpet soloist, composer
Rep. Cynthia McKinney
Cindy Sheehan, antiwar activist
John Carlos, Olympic medalist
John Piger Australian Journalist, Film Maker
Michael Parenti
Paul Craig Roberts, journalist
Joel Kovel, author, "Enemy of Nature"
David Amram, composer
Richard D. Wolff, economist, U. of Massachusetts James Vrettos, John Jay College of Criminal Justice Bill Blum, Anti-Empire Report International Action, Sara Flounders Black Agenda Report, Glen Ford War Is A Crime, David Swanson American Iranian Friendship Committee (AIFC)
Voices For Creative Non-Violence, Kathy Kelly
Information Clearing House, Tom Feeley
Cultures of Resistance Network
Come Home
CODEPINK
Grandmothers Against the War John O'Connor, Vice Pres. Local 802 Musicians AFL Ann Wright, Colonel
Gen. Smedley Butler Chapter VFP
Minority Perspective Counter Currents,
Women Against Military Madness (WAMM)
Stephen Lendman, Pacific Radio News Hour
Dissident Voice
Finian Cunningham
Ron Fisher, WeThePeople.com and Prosecute War Criminals
Friends of Sabeel--
Stephen Chan OBE U. of
We Want World Peace
Rev. Bruce Southworth OpEdNews |
Following in Dr. King;s Footsteps Ever Watchful of Those
Who Suppress King's Condemnation of US War
See MaryKnoll Newsletter, Sept/Oct http://www.maryknollogc.org
Pastors Who Condemn(ed)
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KING ON CAPITALISM and
POVERTY
GOOGLE SEARCH, JAN. 17, 2014,
first page
1.
News for Martin Luther King
and Poverty and Capitalism
Eurweb.com - 1 day
ago
And Dr. King was planning the Poor People's Campaign when
he ...of capitalism but in a higher
synthesis…that combines the truth of both”.
2.
Martin Luther King's Progressive Legacy | ThinkProgress
Jan 21, 2013 - King Said Poverty Made Him “Question The CapitalisticEconomy”: King ... “If it hadn't been for Martin Luther King Jr., there would be no
Barack ...
3.
Martin Luther King: We Are Not Interested in Being Integrated into ...
Jan 18, 2010 - It's Martin Luther King Day here in the US America
4.
Quotes
About Capitalism (446 quotes) - Goodreads
446 quotes have been tagged as capitalism: Carl Sagan: 'One of
the saddest ... Quotes tagged as "capitalism" (showing 1-30 of
446) ... Martin Luther King Jr. ... of values will soon look
uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.
5.
Womanist Musings: Martin Luther King Jr: A Legacy Ignored
Jan 18, 2010 - Martin Luther King on racism, poverty, capitalism, and other big
questions ... There is a reason why
few will quote Dr. King after 1963.
6.
dr. martin luther king, jr: “question the capitalistic ... - Voice
of Detroit
voiceofdetroit.net/.../dr-martin-luther-king-jr-question-the-capitalistic-ec...
Jan 21, 2013 - The Southern Christian
Leadership Conference Presidential Address: Dr.King on racism, poverty, capitalism, and other big
questions.
7.
There Is Something Wrong With Capitalism: Martin Luther King and the
Jan 22, 2013 - As we honor Martin Luther King, Jr. it's important
that we honor who the... King died on April 4, 1968, preparing
to lead a Poor People's March ...
8.
The Economics of Martin Luther King, Jr. – LewRockwell.com
Feb 1, 1991 - We're supposed to
venerate Martin Luther King, Jr., but that's not ...Time and again, King
called on us to “question the capitalistic economy” and
“restructure America
9.
Martin Luther King, Jr., SCLC Presidential Address, 1967 Speech ...
Jan 16, 2012 - 1 post
Martin Luther King on racism, poverty, capitalism, and other big
questions. This isMartin Luther King, Jr.'s last
presidential address to the ...
10.
The Martin Luther King Jr we don't remember – socio-economic critic ...
Jul 11, 2011 - Martin Luther King Jr, in his capacity as
critic of racism and deliverer of the famous ... The Martin Luther King Jr we don't remember –
socio-economic critic, anti-capitalist and ... What solutions did Dr King advocate to poverty?
11.
Martin Luther King's last fight - International Socialist Review
They are too poor even to rise with the
society, too impoverished by the ages to ... In truth, Dr. King's political ideas, while
firmly rooted in Christian ideals, were far ...themselves up “by their
own bootstraps,” and was highly critical of capitalism.
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