[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] reminder: Martin Luther King events

[Jenifer Cartwright]

Yeah, letters to editors should def use accepted spelling. Meanwhile, apols to one and all for all past, present, and future slangy posts from me.
   --Jenifer

"John W." <jbw292002 at gmail.com> wrote:
  At 07:31 PM 1/19/2008, Jenifer Cartwright wrote:

   Absolutely should be submitted to the NG, and I'll be shocked (and thrilled) if it gets printed.
 --Jenifer 

Well, Ricky will have to quit spelling like you, Jenifer.  Let's hope he still remembers how to spell "enough"!  :-P



  "John W." <jbw292002 at gmail.com> wrote:
  
  
   It strikes me, Ricky, that your thoughts here, reworded only slightly, 
  
   would make an EXCELLENT letter to the News-Gazette.

  
   John Wason



  
   At 02:20 PM 1/19/2008, Ricky Baldwin wrote:

  
   >An example of the level of cooptation of MLK Day events. I am a big 
  
   >proponent of supporting MLK
  
   >Day celebrations and events when we can, including ads in the booklet, 
  
   >etc., but it doesn't always
  
   >make sense. To bring in a war contractor to commemorate an antiwar leader 
  
   >... 'irony' just isn't
  
   >a strong enuf word.
  
   >
  
   >Not only that but the kickoff event was held in a hotel which many of us 
  
   >helped picket because it
  
   >was built with nonunion labor imported from out of town instead of local 
  
   >union labor. The fact
  
   >that Martin Luther King Jr died in Memphis supporting an AFSCME garbage 
  
   >workers strike seems lost
  
   >on the planners.
  
   >
  
   >'Lost' is a kind way of describing them, by the way. Someone else noted 
  
   >that among the list of
  
   >sponsors are several of our fellow citizens who were at one time involved 
  
   >in an organization known
  
   >notoriously by its abbreviation, a repetitive letter K.
  
   >
  
   >Ugh.
  
   >
  
   >Let's hope none of us ever gets famous enuf to be remembered in this way ...
  
   >Ricky
  
   >
  
   >
  
   >
  
   >--- john martirano wrote:
  
   >
  
   > > Im sure others noticed the keynote for the kickoff this afternoon's MLK 
  
   > event:
  
   > > * Keynote: Joyce Tucker, VP Global Diversity and Employee Rights for
  
   > > the Boeing Corporation
  
   > > So a VP from one of the largest US war contractors is going to talk
  
   > > about "Transforming Our Communities Through Peace & Justice"... Boeing
  
   > > is also making inroads into domestic surveillance.
  
   > >
  
   > > John 

       
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