The radical MLK we need today - Salon.com

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Harry Belafonte at the premiere of the documentary movie "Sing Your Song" about himself at the FriedrichstadtPalast, Berlin, Berlinale 2011 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The radical MLK we need today - Salon.com:

 "Harry Belafonte tells a story in his amazing memoir, “My Song,” about King being challenged by his SCLC deputies on his accelerating radicalism generally, and the Poor People’s Campaign specifically, just a week before he died. Describing King as a “socialist and revolutionary thinker,” Belafonte says he clashed with close ally and future Atlanta mayor and U.N. ambassador Andrew Young, over not only the Poor People’s Campaign, but King’s thoroughgoing critique of capitalism. Belafonte quotes King telling the group, gathered at the singer/actor/activist’s New York apartment: “What deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we’ve taken toward integration, I’ve come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house.”"

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Chris Hedges on Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt - YouTube

Journalist and author Chris Hedges with a blurred background. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Chris Hedges on Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt - YouTube: "




Summer Read

Days of Destruction Days of Revolt by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco,
 Nation Books, New York, 2012.

 This brilliant combination of prose and graphic comics reports from the field on four of the poorest, most abandoned areas of the U.S. The plight of the Americans barely existing there reflects the power of the corporate supremacists and their indentured governments to exploit and deny.




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The Locket: Surviving the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire by Suzann

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The Locket:
Surviving the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire by Suzanne Lieurance

Galena, an eleven-year-old Russian-Jewish immigrant, lives in New York City with her family and works at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory with her older sister Anya. The factory pays low wages and has terrible working conditions, making Anya yearn to join a union. Soon a horrible fire guts the factory leaving Galena with painful, horrific memories. Follow author Suzanne Lieurance in this dramatic historical fiction novel, as she describes how Galena uses the support of friends, family, and Jewish traditions to inspire her to fight for workers' rights.

The One Minute Writer: Friday Fiction: Ocean

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The One Minute Writer
FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 2010

Friday Fiction: Ocean

 
 
the sun is hot, of course its hot,
the kids are on the beach, of course,
and the surf is pounding in my ears!
surprise!
white christmas in the tropics- oh cliche of cliches:
i miss New York, don't you?
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.ero
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