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Thursday, January 14, 2010

On his birthday - Jan 15th - Trying not to lose the real Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King Jr:  Civil rights leader and activist for peace, justice and human rights:

Born Jan 15th 1929; murdered April 4th 1968

As against the popular conception of Martin Luther King Junior: beyond the image of the liberal campaigner against segregation - there was a more radical thinker and activist - a man opposed to war, and opposed to a social and economic system built around the concentration of wealth - and the oppression, exploitation, disenfranchisement and suffering which followed thus...  Martin Luther King's fight against segregation was a critical aspect of this man's struggle - but we should celebrate the entirety of his message - against injustice and war... This video pays homage to the real Martin Luther King...

Thanks to 'Slepton for this material'.   see:  http://www.slepton.com/slepton/index.pl

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1 comment:

  1. Gidday Tristan, thank you very much for posting this excellent short link. I will join with you in pushing it around. There is some good material to read on the King of his last 12 months in the wonderful history of the civil rights movement, "Parting the Waters".

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