MLK DAY

A couple of links on the profound and lasting relevance of Dr. King. First from the National Radio Project's weekly show, Making Contact, a half hour report from a couple of years ago (right before the Iraq invasion) on King's anti-war attitudes:

"Beyond the Dream: MLK and the Anti-War Movement"

On April 4, 1967 ­ one year to the day before his assassination ­ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., made a major address on the Vietnam War at Riverside Church in New York. It was the first time King would tell the world why he opposed the war, saying that his "conscience [left him] no other choice." We rarely hear about King’s "Beyond Vietnam" speech in the mass media, and glossy retrospectives on network television often fast forward from his 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, to the Voting Rights Act victory of 1965, to the image of King dead on the balcony of a Memphis motel in 1968. What about King’s call for the United States to get on "the right side of the world revolution?" Or, his denunciation of what he called the triple evils of racism, economic exploitation, and militarism?

On this special edition of Making Contact, we take a look at Martin Luther King’s stance against the Vietnam war and its relevance today.

Click here to download the show.

Next, from the AP via the Houston Chronicle, a quick one from MLK's widow:

Coretta King revives message

"It's as if he were writing for this period," King said in a rare public appearance on what would have been her husband's 76th birthday. "Nonviolence would work today, it would work 2,000 years from now, it would work 5,000 years from now.

"If Martin's philosophy had been lived out in Iraq, we wouldn't have bin Laden."

Ain't that the truth. Click here for the rest. And click here and here for Real Art MLK Days gone by.

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