Tag Archives: Martin Luther King
A Come-to-Jesus Sermon from the Rev. Chris Hedges
“The Bible has been used by systems of power to perpetuate all sorts of injustices and persecution since the Christian Church was institutionalized in the third century by Constantine, who was a brutal dictator,” says Hedges.
CHRIS HEDGES | We Must PEACEFULLY Overthrow CORPORATE Fascism
‘”These people are going to kill us. And they are going to kill my children.”
Violence Begets Violence: America’s Wars Come Home
“The notion that perpetual war will somehow bring long-lasting peace is a peculiarly American and often recurring form of doublespeak (saying one thing and meaning the opposite) that permeates the entire national surveillance empire…”
Michelle Alexander’s Brilliant Intro to “Beyond Vietnam”
“We will be marching for these and a dozen other names and attending rallies without end, unless there is a significant and profound change in American life and policy.”
Martin Luther King: Breaking the Silence, Riverside Speech
MLK’s unheeded prophecy that has come true:
“The war in Vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit, and if we ignore this sobering reality…and if we ignore this sobering reality, we will find ourselves organizing “clergy and laymen concerned” committees for the next generation. They will be concerned about Guatemala — Guatemala and Peru. They will be concerned about Thailand and Cambodia. They will be concerned about Mozambique and South Africa. We will be marching for these and a dozen other names and attending rallies without end, unless there is a significant and profound change in American life and policy.”
The Unspeakable Horrors of Police Brutality
MLK: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
Andrew J. Bacevich, The All-American Way: MLK’s Giant Triplets
“What I am suggesting is that those calling for fundamental change will go badly astray if they ignore Dr. King’s insistence that each of the giant triplets [racism, extreme materialism, militarism] is intimately tied to the other two.”
MLK, Qassem Soleimani and the folly of American exceptionalism, by Jack Nelson Pallmeyer
“MLK’s push for nonviolence is something to which we all should aspire.”
Martin Luther King Speaks! Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution
“One of the great liabilities of life is that all too many people find themselves living amid a great period of social change, and yet they fail to develop the new attitudes, the new mental responses, that the new situation demands. They end up sleeping through a revolution.
Campaign Nonviolence: Working for a new culture of nonviolence free from war, racism, poverty and environmental destruction, by John Dear
We can change the world if we organize in grassroots movements of resistance and social transformation.
NATO: Expiration Date 1991, by Todd Pierce
“A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war: ‘This way of settling differences is not just.’”
MLK: Beyond Vietnam, A Time to Break Silence
“Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence”
To King, the Vietnam War was only the most pressing symptom of American colonialism worldwide.
No to NATO, Yes to Peace Gathering Washington DC (Video)
It’s almost time to unwelcome NATO! “No Compromise, No Retreat in the Fight to End Militarism and War” (Black Alliance of Peace)
5 Ways New Movement Leaders Are Effecting Change, by Michael Silberman
The Parkland students and others are reinventing models for people-powered activism that adapts to today’s rapid pace of change.
David Swanson Discusses “Curing American Exceptionalism”
Curing Exceptionalism: What’s wrong with how we think about the United States? What can we do about it?
Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie
Spookingly timely the day after the illegal bombing of Syria.
War Deaths and Taxes by John LaForge
This year at least 47% of federal income taxes goes to the military!
Greg Palast | How JFK Saved MLK’s Life and So Won the Presidency
“No Comment” Nixon
versus A Candidate with a Heart, Senator Kennedy
John Dear | The Year of “Nonviolence or Non-Existence”
Now, 50 years on, King’s words take on more weight with each passing hour.
Rise Up Times 
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