The Martin Luther King Day Anti-Bush Events
If you're in the area, here is a list of a few of the unhinged events...
This weekend there are a number of events planned to use the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday as an excuse to attack the Bush Administration.
Here is a partial list of the anti-war, Anti-Bush events planned this weekend:
* MLK 'Truth, Peace & Justice' rally Sunday will focus on Bush impeachment, third Party campaign in Palo Alto for Congress as advertised at After Downing Street.
* Al Gore's much publicized speech on Monday at Constitution Hall of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
In a major address slated for delivery Monday in Washington, the former Vice President is expected to argue that the Bush administration has created a "Constitutional crisis" by acting without the authorization of the Congress and the courts to spy on Americans and otherwise abuse basic liberties....Sounds like one of his "he played on our fears" unhinged speeches.
Aides who are familiar with the preparations for the address say that Gore will frame his remarks in Constitutional language. The Democrat who beat Bush by more than 500,000 votes in the 2000 presidential election has agreed to deliver his remarks in a symbolically powerful location: the historic Constitution Hall of the Daughters of the American Revolution. But this will not be the sort of cautious, bureaucratic speech for which Gore was frequently criticized during his years in the Senate and the White House.
It is interesting that today Democrats.com has an article about a Zogby poll (no links are available) on Americans overwhelmingly approving George Bush's impeachment. This is a nice build up for the stimulating Al Gore event on Monday. The poll findings are remarkable since just 10 days ago only 33% of Americans believed that Bush broke the law while 50% believed he did not. Now this Zogby poll says 52% of the country wants Congress to consider impeachment? Hmm.
* Code Pink is playing a flash MLK presentation on their site all weekend.
* New York Martin Luther King Day Events, Realizing the Dream: A Call to Conscience, actors Susan Sarandon and Jeffrey Wright will read select works of Dr. King.
* United for Peace and Justice provides handouts for your anti-war, Anti-Bush MLK events.
* On Monday, January 16, at 7 PM at Steppenwolf's Upstairs Theater, some of Chicago's outstanding theater artists will present scenes/readings in a performance that they hope will inspire you to assume your birthright as citizens of the world in this moment of political upheaval. Readings from Mark Twain, Henry David Thoreau, Martin Luther King, Jr., Naomi Wallace, Margaret Atwood, Harold Pinter and recent testimony from the Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration.
Donations at the event will benefit World Can't Wait - Drive out the Bush Regime, a national movement calling on Bush to step down and take his whole program of immoral war, bigotry, intolerance, and suppression of science with him.
* Monday, Jan 16 - Martin Luther King Day, support Black Voices for Peace in kickoff of nationwide speaking tour by four mothers whose children died in Iraq. Special meeting place: Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ, 5301 N. Capitol St, NE from about 2 - 6pm. (Peace Majority Report)
* Sen. Edward Kennedy will join the LET JUSTICE ROLL Living Wage services and/or events on the Martin Luther King Holiday Weekend in order to inspire, educate and mobilize congregations and community organizations to support and act for raising the minimum wage at both the Federal and State levels.
* In Fort Lauderhill -- Singer Harry Belafonte is featured speaker at the fifth annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day program, 7 p.m. at Diamante's Banquet Center, 6501 W. Commercial Blvd., Lauderhill. Cost is $50 per person. 954-730-4218.
* Don't be surprised if you see a remake of the 2003 MLK Celebrations this weekend:
The rally on the US Capitol today to mark the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech was broadcast live on C-SPAN. The event was attended by Democratic presidential contenders Howard Dean, Carol Moseley Braun and Al Sharpton. The following are my personal observations, facts hidden from you by puff-pieces appearing on the wire services.
The most stunning aspect of this rally was the almost complete, seemingly choreographed absence of the Old Glory throughout the vast crowd, estimated by organizers to number 50,000. The fact that not a single black person thought it proper to show appreciation to a country that freed his forefathers from the clutches of slavery by proudly flying her flag, seemed almost offensive to me. Seen among the crowd were various pro-Palestinian banners and others denigrating America, one calling it "The greatest purveyor of violence in the world".
Here is a list of minority accomplishments during the Bush Administration years for your use this weekend. They may come in handy.
Jason notes how John McCain's MLK activities are being spun by the media.
The ACLU has its own unique way of celebrating.
posted by Gateway Pundit at 1/15/2006 12:20:00 AM
13 Comments:
Al Gore, a man totally lacking a sense of irony. But it's no odder for the son of a Senator who voted against civil rights to use MLK day in this way than it is for the same man with his own strip mine to claim to be an environmentalist.
Thanks for the heads up...on Ft. Lauderdale...my neck of the woods. I linked you...both that was okay. Thanks for always reporting...what we all need to know. (smiling)
"The fact that not a single black person thought it proper to show appreciation to a country that freed his forefathers from the clutches of slavery by proudly flying her flag, seemed almost offensive to me."
This would be the same country that enslaved their forefathers, right?
tmcd: Yes, the U.S. was founded by people most of whom inherited age-old beliefs in the inferiority of blacks and were slow to shake off those beliefs. But when they did, thousands upon thousands of white men died so black men could be free. And don't let anyone tell you different -- don't let anyone tell you that freeing the slaves was some kind of afterthought. If the South hadn't had slavery, or if the North had it or couldn't care less if the South had it, there would have been no war.
The tens of thousands of young white men who gave their lives to make black men free fought under the banner of the Stars and Stripes. Yes, they deserve gratitude and appreciation.
But obviously, you would prefer to dwell on the sins of the past, never to forgive, never to forget. This iis a recipe for endless bitterness and bloodshed such as we see in the Middle East, Northern Ireland, and much of Africa.
America has succeeded because its people have had an attitude of seeing the glass as half full instead of half empty. Because they've been able to appreciate what they have while working to make things even better. MLK was one of those people.
But now we have angry, bitter people like you who don't want to let the past go and move forward. Instead you want to use it as a perpetual excuse to tear others down or to demand entitlements. You want to be an eternal victim.
I believe Dr. King would be ashamed of much of what is said and done in his name today.
Isn't having a slate of NBA Games on MLK Day perpetuating a stereotype?
This is very disheartening. I think we are living in a very dangerous world right now, and this divisivness only adds to the danger.
This is not in any way what Dr. King stood for.
Thanks for taking the time to get this information together. As much as we hate to hear it, we need to know it.
I've linked to this.
http://bluestarchronicles.blogspot.com/2006/01/have-we-lost-dream.html
and
http://bluestarchronicles.blogspot.com/2006/01/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-day.html
Thanks
The post mentioning Gore's father was a low blow because Al Gore has shown no sign of his father's bigotry.
Unless there is obvious collusion or emulation, one shouldn't judge the son by the father, or the father by the son; it's why I have a grudging respect for Bush Major, who fought in the war he supported, never tried hard to hide his aristocratic background, and probably wouldn't torture you any longer than necessary to get the information his country or stock portfolio needed.
"The fact that not a single black person thought it proper to show appreciation to a country that freed his forefathers from the clutches of slavery by proudly flying her flag, seemed almost offensive to me."
So now it seems republicans aren't content with controlling all branches of goverment, they want to claim the gains that others risked life and limb for, by simply saying "we're americans, so King's legacy was meant for us too". Fried baloney.
You neglect to mention who all those brave white boys were fighting - other white boys who thought slavery was their legacy, and be damned if those Northerners were going to kill that legacy. Kind of moots your point about those "brave white boys", doesn't it?
And using "unhinged" is so cliched - it's like hanging a "do not disturb the fogey" sign around your neck. Try to say something original for once(an ambitious endeavor for a witty guy like you, I'm sure).
Go suck an egg, you intellectual weasel.
Or do you also think in cliches?
When I get a pet cat I will call it George. First time that so called MP has ever made me laugh.
I'm not dwelling on anything. But if you want to get mad because black people aren't celebrating the country that gave them freedom, you have to admit that it was the same country that enslaved them.
And as for that "inherited age-old beliefs" B.S.: PLENTY of people who were around at the same time recognized the evils of slavery. It being an inherited belief means little.
"tmcd: Yes, the U.S. was founded by people most of whom inherited age-old beliefs in the inferiority of blacks (ect)" (Said Anonymous)
Thank you for reminding us Southeners how EVIL we are. Sometimes we forget. Can we come back into YOUR contry now?
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