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41. Goals and Vision Group

Reply to loyalsister (Reply #19)

Thu Feb 2, 2012, 09:46 AM

Feb 2012

can be found on NYCGA's web page. And no, I'm not going to post a link. If your interested(?) look it up.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. (with compatriots) take over a private building in Chicago in 1965. [View all] Luminous Animal Feb 2012 OP

Wow those newspaper clippings sound alot like some of the posts on this site over the past few days. limpyhobbler Feb 2012 #1

Check this one out decrying the dangers of demonstrations. Luminous Animal Feb 2012 #2

It really is something. If Dr. King were alive today, he would be 83 years old. limpyhobbler Feb 2012 #14

Wow, that sounds like a lot of posts I've seen on DU. sabrina 1 Feb 2012 #27

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! malaise Feb 2012 #3

Article on how King's peaceful protests spark violence... Luminous Animal Feb 2012 #4

Well that certainly was a hate filled screen. limpyhobbler Feb 2012 #46

Much appreciated but there are some on whom the point will always be lost. JackRiddler Feb 2012 #5

PRIVATE PROPERTY!!!! Hell Hath No Fury Feb 2012 #6

Yes it is. But when people do not take the time to learn, we get the kind of nonsense we sabrina 1 Feb 2012 #28

What kind of a message was that?! EFerrari Feb 2012 #7

According to one letter writer, King was "undermining our society of law and order." Luminous Animal Feb 2012 #8

Lol, are those people posting on DU do you think? sabrina 1 Feb 2012 #29

If DU existed back then, I have no doubt that MLK would be scolded Cali_Democrat Feb 2012 #9

William F. Buckley's heirs are probably too ashamed to reprint his screeds on MLK. Starry Messenger Feb 2012 #10

I've got a few of those bookmarked on my home computer. What a cretin Buckley was. Luminous Animal Feb 2012 #13

Fascinating to read those articles. And to think it is not that long ago that people actually sabrina 1 Feb 2012 #34

It was Catherina who tipped me off to the negativity of print journalism to Starry Messenger Feb 2012 #40

In which a letter writer that King's plan to occupy Washington DC is the wrong tactic... Luminous Animal Feb 2012 #11

Liberal intertubes ala 1966. Luminous Animal Feb 2012 #12

Why is it that the anti Occupy people never post on socialist_n_TN Feb 2012 #15

There was a specific goal and a specific message loyalsister Feb 2012 #16

Occupy Oakland had a specific goal and a specific message. Luminous Animal Feb 2012 #17

And a specific leader? loyalsister Feb 2012 #19

The civil rights movement was active before MLK was born. He had Luminous Animal Feb 2012 #20

Yes he focused on those things in his speeches loyalsister Feb 2012 #21

No. He did not merely focus on them in speeches. He also led and participated Luminous Animal Feb 2012 #22

Whenever I hear anyone say 'but they have no message', I think of sabrina 1 Feb 2012 #33

Goals and Vision Group notundecided Feb 2012 #41

?? Are you at all familiar with this movement? Millions of people around the globe, sabrina 1 Feb 2012 #30

This was IIRC about a year into King's "rent strike" campaign. Robb Feb 2012 #18

Cool! And Occupy Chicago had a teach-in about MLK's campaign against slums... Luminous Animal Feb 2012 #23

Another thing it appears many people here are not aware of, the 'teach-ins' that take place sabrina 1 Feb 2012 #35

People could look a little deeper at what the occupiers were trying to do taking over the limpyhobbler Feb 2012 #36

Check out Argentina, where they did the same thing. This is not a new tactic at all, and in sabrina 1 Feb 2012 #31

That's rather missing the point, I think. Robb Feb 2012 #42

Politicians did nothing about foreclosures. Millions of people are and have lost their homes sabrina 1 Feb 2012 #49

None of which, notably, disputes my point. Robb Feb 2012 #51

People tend to forget (or never knew) King was a radical socialist. Puregonzo1188 Feb 2012 #24

I don't think it's an accident that people aren't taught Union Scribe Feb 2012 #25

+1000 ellisonz Feb 2012 #32

quite right, it's not an accident. limpyhobbler Feb 2012 #37

Kick Luminous Animal Feb 2012 #26

Recommended me b zola Feb 2012 #38

K&R TheKentuckian Feb 2012 #39

excellent thread. kr inna Feb 2012 #43

Very good. Nt xchrom Feb 2012 #44

LOL! lunatica Feb 2012 #45

Those angry letters sound like a few DUers.... Bluenorthwest Feb 2012 #47

Cue the "MLK is hurting progressives" in 3, 2, 1. nt raouldukelives Feb 2012 #48

K&R woo me with science Feb 2012 #50