Forty years ago this evening, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and killed outside the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee. Dr. King has no doubt been unofficially canonized as the patron saint of the civil rights movement, and rightly so. As I’m writing this post it is barely 8:30 in [...]
40 Years: Remembering the Whole King
April 4th, 2008 · No Comments
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Signs of Hope and Creativity
April 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
There are little signs of hope and creativity everywhere. People are participating in a different type of reality, right under the nose of the empire. Wow. [Ht. Brett and Shane]
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“We the People”: Condeming the War, Supporting Reconcilation
March 26th, 2008 · 4 Comments
The following is the manuscript of a speech I will give around 2:00 pm this afternoon during a war protest at Oklahoma City University commemorating the 5th ‘anniversary’ of the US occupation of Iraq.
Five years ago, riding the emotions of 9/11, ‘we the people’ collectively gave our government the benefit of a doubt. We [...]
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