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

[unionyes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: unionyes 
To: Neil Parthun 
Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] Should AWARE hold a "RenewingAmerica's Promise" event for peace? [Events around MLK day --accepting postings through 12/31]


Yes,

When I was growing up in the 1960's ( Elementary school ) Dr. King was constantly vilanized in the press as an agitator of violence, a communist, etc..

Of course a few years after he was murdered the media began to " cantonize " him, of course always playing the " I had a Dream speech, but NEVER playing the Riverside Church speech ( given exactley one year to the day of his murder ) where he spoke out about the Vietnam war, and global U.S. imperialism and global U.S. capitalism. As relavent today as it was in 1967.

David Johnson

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Neil Parthun 
  To: jencart13 at yahoo.com 
  Cc: peace-discuss at anti-war.net ; Stuart Levy 
  Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 5:20 PM
  Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] Should AWARE hold a "RenewingAmerica's Promise" event for peace? [Events around MLK day --accepting postings through 12/31]


  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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