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Michael Honey, History News Network: 'People across the country today are protesting the Republican attempts to utterly destroy the unions. They are virtually the only group that still has the power to stand up against the power of organized money. King supported unions from his earliest college days and called them the 'first anti-poverty program.' Unions provided King with staunch allies and provided his greatest financial support in the Montgomery bus boycott, the Birmingham movement, the March on Washington, and other battles.'

http://truth-out.org/we-are-one-remembering-martin-luther-kings-struggle-labor-rights/1301900400



The Servant Problem: In Search of the Lost Battalion of Americas Unemployed

Lewis H. Lapham, TomDispatch: 'The nation's unemployment rate, officially pegged at 9.4% but probably nearer to 17%, in any event no fewer than 25 million Americans, a number more than equal to the entire population of North Korea, out of work or on the run. The metrics, so say President Obama, the Wall Street Journal, and A Prairie Home Companion, are not good. The stock markets may have weathered the storm of the recession, as have the country's corporate profit margins, but unless jobs can be found, we wave goodbye to America the Beautiful...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lewis-lapham/america-unemployment_b_844586.html



Dr. King s Memorial Is About the Reality, Not the 'Dream'

Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III, Truthout: 'If one studies Dr. King s speeches and writings and understands the context of their time, the reality is that Dr. King was not about politics; he was about policy. He was not about elected positions and presidents; he was about people. Dr. King was not about tax breaks for the wealthiest of us; he was about social programs for the least of us. He was not about a war in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Libya. He saw '... war as an enemy of the poor ...' and attacked it as such.'

http://www.truth-out.org/dr-kings-memorial-about-reality-not-dream/1314383761


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