[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] Should AWARE hold a "Renewing America's Promise" event for peace? [Events around MLK day -- accepting postings through 12/31]

[Neil Parthun]

I think anything about an appropriate remembrance + how to  
appropriately remember the legacy of King would be great.  He's  
become tame by today's standards and turned into platitudes.  People  
forget that he eventually came out against Vietnam, denoted the US as  
the "greatest purveyor of violence" in the world and began a class  
campaign to organize poor people of all races.  When he died, he was  
organizing sanitation workers for appropriate pay, conditions and  
work.  This is something as timely as ever given all that we've got  
going on in the current sphere if we put this together well --  
bridging his statements/actions about war, class et al. to the  
current issues we've got with wars, class et al.

Live hard,
      Neil

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil  
obedience...Our problem is that people are obedient all over the  
world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war,  
and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails  
are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are  
running and robbing the country. That's our problem.
[howard zinn, 1922-]
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