<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Reclaiming MLK's Radical Roots<br></div>Sunday, January 25, 2015<br></div>2pm to 4pm<br></div>U-C Independent Media Center, Sun Room / 202 S. Broadway, Urbana, IL 61801<br><span class=""><br></span><br clear="all"><span class="">CUCPJ and UCIMC will host “Reclaiming MLK’s Radical
Roots” as part of a national effort to bring the #BlackLivesMatter
movement into the New Year.<br> <br> We'll have invited readers, music,
and refreshments, and an open mic. Bring your favorite King speeches and
reflections on them, or we'll supply copies of his more radical
writings.<br> <br> Too often in mainstream media we see a whitewashed
Martin Luther King. But if King had been only a dreamer, they wouldn't
have shot him. His words and actions of nearly fifty years ago were
controversial at the time and remain profoundly radical today.<br> <br>
We want to revisit his example to bring forth a 21st Century grassroots
movement. We continued to be haunted by what King called the triplets of
“racism,” “materialism,” and “militarism.” Now more than ever we need a
“radical revolution” against the New Jim Crow―mass incarceration,
police brutality, and a criminal injustice system keeping African
American youth in shackles. What can we understand of today's situations
in the light of Martin Luther King's vision, and where does it lead us?
<br> <br> Sponsored by Champaign-Urbana Citizens for Peace and Justice and the U-C Independent Media Center.</span><div><div><div><div><br></div><div>Facebook announcement: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/796810760389233/?ref=6&ref_notif_type=plan_user_invited">https://www.facebook.com/events/796810760389233/?ref=6&ref_notif_type=plan_user_invited</a><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><br></div>
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