Today’s One-Liner (#216)
“I’m not interested in criticizing Sheriff Clark, I’m interested in converting Sheriff Clark!” –Hosea Williams, quoted in Taylor Branch, At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968
Tag: Martin Luther King
Arundhati Roy on How MLK Is Remembered
Martin Luther King Jr. made the forbidden connections between Capitalism, Imperialism, Racism and the Vietnam War. As a result, after he was assassinated even his memory became toxic, a threat to public order. Foundations and…
Activists
Hatred/2 by Hedy Epstein Throughout the 1960s, I became involved in local civil and human rights activities, as well as anti-Vietnam war protests. In the spring of 1970, it became public knowledge in the United…
Be Here Now: American Sadhana and the Search for the Real
If you’ve ever … put your faith in a guru traveled to India and were blown away and never took a single drug recited a mantra throughout the day met your future wife at a…
Ninety Years Alive on Earth
On Thich Nhat Hanh, At Home in the World: Stories and Essential Teachings from a Monk’s Life. Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 2016. Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh is a survivor. Narrowly missing death in…
Hearts and Minds, Revisited by Mark Chmiel and Andrew Wimmer
This article was first published at Counterpunch, January 12, 2005. The ultimate victory will depend on the hearts and minds of the people who actually live out there. –Lyndon Johnson, on Vietnam There is…
Share the Wealth with Julia Brucks: “The Fierce Urgency of Now” – My Journey with St Louis
“We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being…
In a Parallel Universe/1
Avigdor Lieberman said that the Baptist minister should be deported Thus Dr. Martin Luther King retorted: Injustice anywhere in the West Bank Is a threat to justice everywhere
Email from Larry Friedberg in Haifa (Reading/6)
Dear Professor One of your former students told my daughter To tell me that I should read your book So I did I read it in two days I want to thank you You articulated…
Boeing’s Dr. King, Our Dr. King
You remember your Dr. King We remember ours You believe that in these times Dr. King would like diversity and inclusion You cite his “content of their character” “rather than the color of their skin”…