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Archive
Struggles
Peace and solidarity
“A
nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military
defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual
death.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1967
Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his courageous (and still urgent) “Beyond Vietnam” speech on April 4, 1967 at Riverside Church in New York. Exactly one year later he was assassinated. This year, in commemoration of Dr. King’s legacy, peace, civil rights and labor organizations are calling for a massive national march on Wall Street to highlight the connections between the wars abroad and the deepening economic crisis in our communities. United for Peace & Justice is organizing the march and demonstration for Saturday April 4, 2009 on Wall Street in Manhattan. The theme of the march is "Beyond War: A New Economy is Possible, Yes We Can!" With the historic election of President Obama, the new administration and Congress needs a strong grassroots movement, built on the tenets of racial and economic justice and an end to U.S. militarism, to struggle for a new set of national priorities rooted in the Dr. King’s vision of a world without poverty, racism, or war. Now is the time to mobilize the peace majority to support a call to dramatically cut military spending! The march will give voice to the urgency to refocus our government’s spending priorities. The struggle to pass the Employee Free Choice Act is another struggle that the peace movement must and will mobilize for in the same way that we have mobilized to end the war in Iraq. Justice, as Dr. King defined it, included the basic right to form unions and bargain collectively for a better life. April 4 will be a day that connects the rights of working families with the need for a more peaceful world. An economy based on corporate greed and lawlessness and a foreign policy based on war and aggression must end. Help fulfill King’s legacy, join us. Yes we can build a new world of justice, equality and peace! Visit the website of United for Peace & Justice for details, flyers in English and Spanish and for local organizations to endorse |
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