Surviving Capitalism (Not) : The Revolutionary MLK [15:55m video & script]

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

The Revolutionary MLK [15:55m video & script]

from the Real News.

Monday was Martin Luther King day, a holiday in the US. Paul Jay's guest explains how ruling class media has sanitized the messages that characterized Martin Luther King's thinking in the last year before he was assassinated. Recapture this expunged history by viewing this video. Then read King's last book entitled, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?. And read An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King. by William Pepper.