A Building Bridges Special
with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash
Mon., Jan. 19, 2015, 7 pm – midnight EST, over 99.5 FM
streaming @ www.wbai.org
smartphone streaming @ http://stream.wbai.org
& to listen, or download archived shows,
http://archive.wbai.org/show1.php?showid=bbridges
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MLK UnSanitized: A Prophet King Confronting the Triple Evils of Capitalism, Militarism & Racism!
Featuring:
. Voices of we the people On the Move, Rising Up!
. Dr. Cornel West, on King’s legacy for today’s times
. Angela Davis, reclaiming King’s revolutionary teachings
. Clayborne Carson, founding director the Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Research and Education Institute, and director of the King Papers Project.
. Taylor Rogers, interview with the late leader of the 1,300 African-
American, Memphis sanitation workers striking to win recognition for their union and their civil rights, who during their 64-day struggle was beaten along with his fellow workers, gassed and jailed – along with King, who was killed in Memphis while supporting the strike
And
Rare audio recordings of King and sound clips from the films King: From Montgomery to Memphis, and also of At The River I Stand two of the greatest documentaries ever made, all of which recognize the duality of America’s promises and its reality for
the 99%.
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Stone monuments and tributes can’t adequately commemorate King. Genuine recognition of the man requires that we resolve to carry on his legacy of resistance to discrimination, economic inequality, and militarism. Amidst bigotry,deepening poverty, and war, we can hearken back to MLK’s support for striking Memphis sanitation workers and his work to organize a Poor People’s March for guidance. In those campaigns his desire for the downtrodden to obtain human rights came together with the necessity of the impoverished and disenfranchised, of the working class for economic power. “What good does it do to eat at a lunch counter if you can’t buy a hamburger,” said King.
In Memphis King joined with the working class struggle, in progress, for dignity, “I Am A Man,” for better wages and working conditions and the right for the workers to collectivize their strength against capital by unionizing. King helped build movements, bringing to them his personal sacrifice and perseverance, along with his strategic analysis of the state’s maintenance of a class system and racist ideology to support it, to feed the power and control of the plutocracy. King brought a strategic understanding of capitalism, along with a Gandhian tactic to communities that were in motion. King merged his interests with people in struggle and was in turn shaped by those efforts for civil, human, and economic rights.
Tune in and join us as we listen to and learn from King, who became one of the world’s most meaningful voices and whose words echo beyond the boundaries of time. Listen with us to the rare sound we’ve complied of King and be inspired. Listen to King from the frontlines – which will stir you to recommit to achieve human rights, economic justice and an end to military might. King’s words and actions can help guide us through the challenges ahead.
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