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Related: About this forumStanding Ovation!!! Progressive Speech by Rabbi Lerner @ Ali Funeral
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This speech will have you on your feet clapping in solidarity!!!Rabbi Lerner -- Spot On!!!
(Ovation of 14,000 people is cut from the end of this clip. It happened!)
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LiberalArkie
(15,686 posts)Donkees
(31,076 posts)Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)(Words/speech of Rabbi Michael Lerner at Ali Funeral)
Tell those who created mass incarceration that it is time to create a guaranteed income for everyone in our society. Tell judges to let out of prison the many African Americans swept up by racist police and imprisoned by racist judges. Many are imprisoned today for offenses like possessing marijuana that white people get away with all the time. Tell our elected officials to imprison those who authorize torture and those who ran the big banks and investment companies that caused the economic collapse of 2008. Tell the leaders of Turkey to stop killing the Kurd's. Tell Prime Minister Netanyahu that the way to get security for Israel is to stop the occupation of the West Bank and to help create a Palestinian State.
Tell the next President of the United States that She. Tell the next President of the United States that She should seek a constitutional amendment to make all National and State elections funded by congress and the State Legislatures and all sources of money be banned, including money from corporations, from individuals --- all other money --- to make it all public funding.
Tell Her that the way to achieve homeland security is not for us to try new ways of domination. The strategy of domination of the world of the other to get security has been tried for the past 10,000 years and it doesnt work! The way to get security is for the United States to become known as the most generous and caring Country in the world, not the most powerful. We can start with a global and domestic marshal plan to once and for all to end global and domestic poverty, homelessness, hunger, inadequate education and inadequate health care
(Words/speech of Rabbi Michael Lerner at Ali Funeral)
Donkees
(31,076 posts)Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)All the people around him in the video are still standing.
Jennylynn
(696 posts)SHE ain't gonna do shit.
Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)Parts of his speech are straight out of Bernie's platform.
Jennylynn
(696 posts)Why did he have to do the SHE part? It would've been so much better.....
hopemountain
(3,919 posts)a path of redemption. of course, it went over bill's head and hillary may never get it. the whole world is watching.
i thought hard about what ali was trying to tell us in setting up his memorial the way he did. he had enemies, antagonists and friends and lovers all sitting in the same room - from all walks of life. the common ground: muhammed ali.
there is an old tradition way we have forgotten - whereby foes hold one another to the fire. nothing more humbling than being held to the power truth to the power of fire - if you notice, bill could not look rabbi lerner in the eyes.