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And now it seems that Madison, Wisconsin is rediscovering the nonviolent resistance tactics of Selma and Birmingham.The NONVIOLENT REVOLUTION: MUST COME FROM WITHIN! Each and every politically aware individual needs to let their VOICES be heard. It is an absolute and complete travesty that we see taking place right before our eyes.
I go away two weeks ago, return and the gas prices have gone up nearly a 1/2 dollar. What does this mean? Higher food, energy, clothing, and all essentials for life are SKY ROCKETING in PRICE. And for what reason? Pure and simple...GREED!!!
There are no OIL SHORTAGES, no BUSTED OIL or NATURAL GAS LINES, no HURRYCANE KRINAS to BLAME. It’s all about (GREED) the O-MIGHTY DOLLAR.
People UNIVERSALLY need to take a day off from driving. At least once a week consider (a day) not driving taking public transportation. Trust me? These will add up in the long run.
NONVIOLENT REVOLUTION works: REMEMBER the Selma, Alabama bus boycott? That was a NONVIOLENT REVOLUTIONARY act taking place by all of the people acting in unison.
We now have a NONVIOLENT LABOR MOVEMENT spreading in the North, just as our Civil Rights Movement spread through the South during the 1960s.
It is now a CLASS MOVEMENT--working people being black, white, latin, Asian,male,female or what have you.
It is a MULTIRACIAL movement of the dispossessed and exploited fighting for economic justice and basic democratic rights like collective bargaining.
It is remarkable when we recall that Dr. King's last campaign in Memphis was a fight for ECONOMIC as well as racial justice, a fight for the rights of impoverished Black sanitation workers to decent working conditions, benefits, salaries and the right to collective bargaining which the white supremacist corporate power structure sought to deny.
King once said that economic injustice was the twin of racial injustice; and that one possible outcome of a successful civil rights movement was that the racial divide may be at least breached (even if not eliminated) sufficiently for a COMMON STRUGGLE of the dispossesed to become possible. His last INTENDED campaign was the Poor Peoples Campaign, which a bullet prevented him from leading on April 4, 1968.
He intended to lead a NONVIOLENT REVOLUTIONARY campaign to Washington, DC to fight for social justice, and an ECONOMIC BILL OF RIGHTS. He planned to unite poor and their allies--black, white, latino, labor, progressive religious communities, progressive intellectuals and student--on a massive campaign to end the evils of exploitation, racism and militarism.
Perhaps the rising, nonviolent labor movement is an indication that the time is right for the resumption of that nonviolent revolution which King and others wanted to achieve in 1968.
We can prevail against fascist Republicans like Scott Brown despite the cowardly temporizing and vacillating of weak kneed Democrats (obviously, I don't mean those 14 courageous Dems in WI who are standing with the working people).
In previous posts I expressed my desire to see "Freedom for the people of Egypt. Down with the dictatorship. Prison or exile for the dictators."
Now I say "Justice and democratic rights for the American people. Justice for American workers. Oust the despots who seek to crush the workers. Long live freedom!"
We need a nonviolent revolution of MILLIONS of Americans of all races, colors and creeds to fight for economic democracy and civil liberties.
Down with plotocracy! Justice for all.
-Savant
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It was a coup d'etat by a fascist governor and his looney rightwing senate. They lost the debate, with at least 61% of Americans on the side of the striking workers, and even some Republicans in Wisconsin now regretting they voted for that moron.What happened in Wisconsin is pure bullsh*t against the constitutional rights and voice of the people. What Walker did wasn’t brilliant. He just confirmed that Republicans are the best at dirty politics, pathological lying and backroom sleaze.
2012 is going to be bluer than blue.
Scott Brown resorted to a desperate maneuver that may cost the Republicans dearly in 2012.
Working people are rising up all over America. If the Right keeps screwing people over, those revolutions in the Middle East may look like a picnic compared to what's coming here.
These reactionaries have essentially negated the democratic rights of the American people. They've done something that would be roundly denounced everywhere if it happened in a country with which the USA had adversarial relations.
It is high time that the Right was politically neutralized along with the plutocracy which perpetuates it.
A blade in the throat of oppression!
-Savant
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I will give some talks to community groups, black and white.
I will read writings of Dr. King.
I may have mentioned before that I teach Philosophy.
Dr. King, as I tell my students, is largely responsible for that.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. studied Philosophy and Theology at Boston University. That's how he became "Doctor" King.
I first read his famous "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" when I was 17.
I was deeply moved both by the literary ELOQUENCE of King's prose and the COGENCY of his philosophically trained reason.
I wanted to be like him (and also Malcolm X)--eloquent, socially conscious and intellectually sharp.
I read (often with great difficulty) a good number of the writers and thinkers whom Dr. King mentions (without the slightest pedantry) in his letter: Thomas Aquinas, St. Augustine, Martin Buber, Socrates (or rather Plato who depicts Socrates) the Biblical books of Amos, Isaiah, Paul Tillich and others.
Unbeknownst to myself, I was already transforming myself into a progressive intellectual while still and adolescent. King introduced me to Philosophy, and modeled the practice of both rhetorical power and penetrating analysis.
I owe Dr. King and his movement a lot.
I will include some of his writing, especially the Letter (maybe his speech against the Vietnam War) in my philosophy classes this upcoming semester.
I try to honor the legacy by PASSING IT ON, as my elders (including 1960s Movement veterans) have passed it on to me.
-Savant
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The Jacksons and Hutchinsons were associated with Clan Donald which for centuries owned that potion of Ireland as well as most of Western Scotland under the Kingship of the Isles, later refered to as the Lordship of the Isles . Remember the Scots were little more than Goths who migrated from Ireland to Scotland to begin with about a thousand years ago. A mix of Goth, Pict, Irish and VIking make up the average highlander. "son" in Jackson is Norse, not Gaelic.
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