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New Yorker cover sparks controversy, inserts cop among lives that matter
The New Yorker Magazine’s MLK Day issue has everyone upset. It’s not that there are no women in the march, sorry. That’s another issue. Marching with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. are now iconic men of color whose lynchings have … Continue reading
Posted in Enough Said
Tagged BlackLivesMatter, MLK, New Yorker Magazine, Racism, Travon Martin
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I’d rather this Monday was called the Black Panther Party Ten Point Plan Day instead of MLK Day
Point 8- WE WANT AN IMMEDIATE END TO ALL WARS OF AGGRESSION We believe that the various conflicts which exist around the world stem directly from the aggressive desire of the United States ruling circle and government to force … Continue reading
Which was more awesome: power of nonviolence, or right of self-defense?
Give praise to Allah where praise is due As the Freedom Flotilla made its slow approach last week, a popular Huffpo article pronounced the convoy a testament to the awesome power of nonviolence. That sentiment went about as viral … Continue reading
Posted in Headlines
Tagged Free Gaza Movement, Freedom Flotilla, Gaza, Mahatma Gandhi, MLK, Muslim Brotherhood, Nelson Mandela, Nonviolence, Rachel Corrie
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Martin Luther King Day marks his death
MLK 2010- The memory of Martin Luther King Jr. has been cuffed and confined as well as if it had been assassinated. The dream he had of empowerment for the powerless is frozen now en memoriam, neutralized, the masses left … Continue reading
Dave Schultheis of Colorado State Senate District 9- Lost in a Black Hole of Stupidity
In this day and age, science has finally located the Black Hole of Human Stupidity and it is centered on Colorado State Senator Dave Schultheis, elected representative of Colorado State Senate District 9. That’s quite a dishonor, but Dave fully … Continue reading
MLK: Why I am Opposed to the War
“You’re too arrogant! And if you don’t change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power, and I’ll place it in the hands of a nation that doesn’t even know my name. Be still and … Continue reading
UNDO THE COUP begins at home
COLORADO SPRINGS- Rita wants to remind local Democrats about which way to push Barack Obama, come January 20 after the inauguration, and before then, at the local Democratic Party precinct meetings. Whether we have expectations of Obama or not, if … Continue reading
Posted in Activism
Tagged Bob Balink, Colorado Springs, Democratic Party, El Paso County, Interrogation, Iraq War, Media, Military, MLK, Terrorism, Undo the Coup
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Martin Luther King article worth reading
King was surrounded by socialists in the form of the Black Panthers, Malcolm and the SNCC. Not radicals as the press likes to posit. Sure, radicals to most of the capitalist left, right and mainstream Democrats. Good article in exposing … Continue reading
‘White-facing’ MLK
Every year in America, we go through a sick ceremony that ‘White-face’s’ MLK. That ceremony is called MLK Day, where leaders of the White Community, that wouldn’t have bothered spitting on the living Man, as opposed to tasering him, start … Continue reading
Martin Luther King we
Apparently if collective humanity were to make the most of Dr. Martin Luther King and his legacy, we could use his holiday to think deeply about where our actions are leading us. I took the opportunity to reflect on who … Continue reading
Tagged History, Martin Luther King, Marxism, MLK
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MLK Celebration? Where? When?
We always hear it called the ‘MLK Celebration’, but I’m not sure what there is to celebrate? I went with my daughter last night to the ‘MLK Parade’ and it was a truly sad sack affair. At the chapel many … Continue reading
January 20 march for Martin Luther King
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” -MLK On Sunday, January 20, please join the PPJPC, and other local organizations, in the downtown march to commemorate … Continue reading
The Early Warriors in the Fight for Racial Equality
Since Martin Luther King Day is coming up shortly, it behooves us to post some material about who really got the Civil Rights Movement moving in the beginning. It wasn’t just tie wearing preachers spouting something vaguely connected to Jesus’s … Continue reading
St Patricks Day denoument chronicled
Council must prevent parade pandemonium John Weiss INDY editorial, Dec 6 Largest US Civil Disobedience Movement Underway AfterDowningStreet.org, Dec 6 Ousted protesters unsure of trying luck at St. Patty’s parade ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS, Dec 1 City attorney says prosecution is … Continue reading
War decides who is left
I’m learning of a vulnerable schism among pacifists. There are pacifists like Gandhi and MLK, known as pragmatic pacifists, and principled pacifists emerged from the socialist school. Pacifists up against the usual suspects need to ally, but their ideological … Continue reading
Tagged Jesus, Mahatma Gandhi, MLK, Pacifism
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Why?
Black Americans are getting sick and fed up with the entire racist criminal injustice system of the US. Still fresh in memory is the picture of White cops with guns turning back Blacks trying to cross the Mississippi Bridge to … Continue reading
Was Jesus really all that into nonviolence?
Once again, I attended a ‘peace’ meeting dominated by liberal Christians extolling the virtues of nonviolence. The meeting started off with a film about how supposedly Gandhi and MLK, using only methods of nonviolence, had supposedly accomplished great miracles for … Continue reading
Tagged Christians, Film, Jesus, Mahatma Gandhi, MLK, Religion, Walmart
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Affirmative Action, Not Military Action
Despite the weather, illness (the other driver got sick), and early departure time, a small band of us made our way to Denver yesterday, to attend both a summit for the defense of Colorado’s many affirmative action programs (the Colorado … Continue reading
Posted in Labor Unions
Tagged Colorado Springs Gazette, Iran, Justice, Military, MLK, Syria
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Is it Better without a bean than Green?
The hardcore American nut slogan of 40-50 years ago was “Better dead than Red”. Then they came up with “America, Love It or Leave It”. Dull. But now, the idiot American Right should have as their philosophical slogan, “Better without … Continue reading
