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Thousands at SF MLK Parade
In bone-chilling, foggy 48 degree weather, thousands marched in San Francisco on January 20, 2003 to celebrate the 74th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
In bone-chilling, foggy 48 degree weather, thousands marched in San Francisco on January 20, 2003 to celebrate the 74th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Among the participants were enthusastic supporters of Muma Abu-Jamal, an award-winning African-American journalist on Pennsylvania's death row for over 20 years, falsely accused of killing a cop who is still imprisoned even though the actual killer has confessed! For more on Mumia's case, see:
http://www.freemumia.org
http://www.j4mumia.org
http://www.mumia2000.org
http://www.freemumia.com
http://www.refuseandresist.org/mumia/index.html
http://www.rwor.org/s/mumia_e.htm
The Free Mumia contingent was joined by the Freedom Socialist Party/Radical Women and their enthusiastic bullhorn team which provided a wide variety of energetic chants to Free Mumia, Abolish the Death Penalty, Abolish the Prison-Industrial Complex, End Police Brutality, fight racism and support the peace movement.
The crowd was more energetic than in previous years and the most likely reason for that is the tremendous energy we all are receiving from, and hopefully giving to, the peace movement. Many of us had participated in the 200,000-strong San Francisco peace march of January 18, 2003, and brought that energy to the King Birthday Parade today.
Union representation included the longshore workers, ILWU; the Communication Workers of America and UNITE (uniform and laundry workers). UNITE is currently engaged in an organizing drive at Cintas. For more information on the struggle, see:
http://www.uniformjustice.org/
and
http://www.uniteunion.org/
The local crowd was joined by the Freedom Train that annually comes from the Peninsula to the train station at 3rd and Townsend to join the San Francisco Parade which marches up 4th street to Market, then on Market to the Civic Auditorium where the City of San Francisco sponsors a free official celebration with entertainment and speakers.
The participants were predominately African-American with a significant number of Asian-Americans, whites and others. The parade had a colorful, noisy final continent of Chinese lion-dancers.
In honor of Brother Martin's birthday, let us look to a black newspaper of San Francisco, San Francisco Bayview, which had an excellent editorial of 1/15/03 in support of the January 18, 2003 peace march by its editor and publisher, Willie Ratcliff. entitled "Stop the War at Home and Abroad" at
http://www.sfbayview.com/011503/saturdaymarch011503.shtml
Quotable quotes:
"The corporate money machine nullified the Black vote from Florida to San Francisco, allowing the kangaroo Supreme Court to put a junta in the White House."
"What do these American terrorists want? They want to grab the land and all its wealth. In Iraq, they want the land for its oil. In Hunters Point, they want our land for its invaluable views so they can build their mansions where public housing now stands, molding away."
"Whether at home or abroad, to grab the land and plunder the resources, they send in the armed forces to move the people out. They send in forces armed with weapons of mass destruction and terror to divide and conquer and kill."
"In San Francisco, the government raiders know how to grab Black people’s land and resources and drive Black people out of their homeland, because they did it in the Fillmore – destroying 5,000 Black homes and 200 Black businesses with bulldozers. The Redevelopment Agency even admitted, in writing, a few years ago that San Francisco’s official policy was to drive Black people out of the City. And it still is."
"On Third Street, the main artery of Bayview Hunters Point, the City used National Guard tanks to terrorize the people and quell an uprising against economic strangulation and police murder in 1966. Today on Third Street, the Redevelopment Agency is going door to door documenting blight to justify a new land grab. "
"Yet the little bit of blight they find is the result of redlining by banks and government agencies that deny Black people the ability to maintain and develop their own property."
The struggle continues.
Among the participants were enthusastic supporters of Muma Abu-Jamal, an award-winning African-American journalist on Pennsylvania's death row for over 20 years, falsely accused of killing a cop who is still imprisoned even though the actual killer has confessed! For more on Mumia's case, see:
http://www.freemumia.org
http://www.j4mumia.org
http://www.mumia2000.org
http://www.freemumia.com
http://www.refuseandresist.org/mumia/index.html
http://www.rwor.org/s/mumia_e.htm
The Free Mumia contingent was joined by the Freedom Socialist Party/Radical Women and their enthusiastic bullhorn team which provided a wide variety of energetic chants to Free Mumia, Abolish the Death Penalty, Abolish the Prison-Industrial Complex, End Police Brutality, fight racism and support the peace movement.
The crowd was more energetic than in previous years and the most likely reason for that is the tremendous energy we all are receiving from, and hopefully giving to, the peace movement. Many of us had participated in the 200,000-strong San Francisco peace march of January 18, 2003, and brought that energy to the King Birthday Parade today.
Union representation included the longshore workers, ILWU; the Communication Workers of America and UNITE (uniform and laundry workers). UNITE is currently engaged in an organizing drive at Cintas. For more information on the struggle, see:
http://www.uniformjustice.org/
and
http://www.uniteunion.org/
The local crowd was joined by the Freedom Train that annually comes from the Peninsula to the train station at 3rd and Townsend to join the San Francisco Parade which marches up 4th street to Market, then on Market to the Civic Auditorium where the City of San Francisco sponsors a free official celebration with entertainment and speakers.
The participants were predominately African-American with a significant number of Asian-Americans, whites and others. The parade had a colorful, noisy final continent of Chinese lion-dancers.
In honor of Brother Martin's birthday, let us look to a black newspaper of San Francisco, San Francisco Bayview, which had an excellent editorial of 1/15/03 in support of the January 18, 2003 peace march by its editor and publisher, Willie Ratcliff. entitled "Stop the War at Home and Abroad" at
http://www.sfbayview.com/011503/saturdaymarch011503.shtml
Quotable quotes:
"The corporate money machine nullified the Black vote from Florida to San Francisco, allowing the kangaroo Supreme Court to put a junta in the White House."
"What do these American terrorists want? They want to grab the land and all its wealth. In Iraq, they want the land for its oil. In Hunters Point, they want our land for its invaluable views so they can build their mansions where public housing now stands, molding away."
"Whether at home or abroad, to grab the land and plunder the resources, they send in the armed forces to move the people out. They send in forces armed with weapons of mass destruction and terror to divide and conquer and kill."
"In San Francisco, the government raiders know how to grab Black people’s land and resources and drive Black people out of their homeland, because they did it in the Fillmore – destroying 5,000 Black homes and 200 Black businesses with bulldozers. The Redevelopment Agency even admitted, in writing, a few years ago that San Francisco’s official policy was to drive Black people out of the City. And it still is."
"On Third Street, the main artery of Bayview Hunters Point, the City used National Guard tanks to terrorize the people and quell an uprising against economic strangulation and police murder in 1966. Today on Third Street, the Redevelopment Agency is going door to door documenting blight to justify a new land grab. "
"Yet the little bit of blight they find is the result of redlining by banks and government agencies that deny Black people the ability to maintain and develop their own property."
The struggle continues.
For more information:
http://freemumia.org
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I am insulted that people use the birth of Martin Luther King Jr. to stage their pro-Marxist rally for convicted killer, Mumia. This is NOT what King was about.
Also, King dreamed of a world where people were NOT judged based upon the color of the skin, but to you, the color of your skin is the ONLY important issue. You are more destructive than the American Nazi skinhead movement.
Also, King dreamed of a world where people were NOT judged based upon the color of the skin, but to you, the color of your skin is the ONLY important issue. You are more destructive than the American Nazi skinhead movement.
"The corporate money machine nullified the Black vote from Florida to San Francisco, allowing the kangaroo Supreme Court to put a junta in the White House."
WRONG!
In this country, when you receive more votes, you win an election. This is not Zimbabwe or Venuzeula where power is bestowed upon the arrogant garrison-state by force. In fact, it was the Democratic Party that tried to rig the election in Florida. Their cheating was exposed, and their only defense was to blame Republicans for the sheer stupidity of Democratic voters.
WRONG!
In this country, when you receive more votes, you win an election. This is not Zimbabwe or Venuzeula where power is bestowed upon the arrogant garrison-state by force. In fact, it was the Democratic Party that tried to rig the election in Florida. Their cheating was exposed, and their only defense was to blame Republicans for the sheer stupidity of Democratic voters.
3rd Street is dangerous and awful. I'm glad they want to redevelop it. I do hope people on welfare out there get kicked out. It's dangerous and dirty and a disgrace.
Martin Luther King Pop Quiz
How much do you really know?
Here's a little MLK quiz to coincide with the upcoming MLK holiday.
Enjoy!
------------------------------
Many Americans don't know enough about MLK. After taking this quiz, you will see how little the schools, news media and political establishment have told you about the only American with his own
holiday.
1) Name the judge who has sealed King's FBI surveillance file until
the year 2027.
Answer: The Honorable John Lewis Smith, Jr.
2) According to whose 1989 biography did King spend his last night on
earth in an adulterous liaison?
Answer: Reverend Ralph Abernathy. "And the Walls Came Tumbling Down"
3) According to whose 1989 biography did King spend his last morning
on earth physically beating a woman?
Answer: Reverend Ralph Abernathy. "And the Walls Came Tumbling Down"
4) Who was the U.S. Attorney General who ordered the FBI to wiretap
King?
Answer: Robert F. Kennedy
5) Who was the Assistant Director of the FBI who wrote a letter to
Sen. John P. East (R-NC) describing King's conduct of "orgiastic and
adulterous escapades, some of which indicated that King could be
bestial in his sexual abuse of women."
Answer: Charles D. Brennan
6) Who called King a "hypocrite preacher."
Answer: President Lyndon B. Johnson
7) What U.S. newspaper reported that King had plagiarized his
doctoral thesis at Boston University.
Answer: The Wall Street Journal
8) Whom did King plagiarize in more than 50 complete sentences in his
doctoral thesis?
Answer: Dr. Jack Boozer
9) Who was the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities
who purposely suppressed knowledge of King's plagiarism of his
doctoral thesis?
Answer: Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Richard Cheney
10) What was Martin Luther King's real name?
Answer: Michael King, Jr. In 1935 his father, Michael King, declared
to his congregation that he wound henceforth be known as Martin
Luther King and his son would be known as Martin Luther King, Jr.
11) In his first public sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in 1947
who did King plagiarize?
Answer: Harry Emerson Fosdick
12) Name the man who served as King's personal secretary from 1955 to
1960, had joined the Young Communists League at New York City College
in 1936, went to prison for draft evasion in 1944, and in 1953 was
sentenced to 60 days in jail in California "lewd vagrancy and
homosexual perversion."
Answer: Bayard Rustin
13) According to whom had King "privately described himself as a
Marxist."
Answer: His biographer, David J. Garrow
14) Who edited King's book Stride Toward Freedom?
Answer: Communist Stanley Levison
15) Who made the following speech?
That's exactly what we mean-- from every mountain side, let freedom
ring.Not only from the Green Mountains and White Mountains of Vermont
and New Hampshire; not only from the Catskills of New York; but from
the Ozarks in Arkansas, from Stone Mountain in Georgia, from the Blue
Ridge Mountains of Virginia --let it ring not only for the minorities
of the United States, but for the disinherited of all the earth--from
every mountainside, LET FREEDOM RING!
Answer: Archibald Carey, 1952
------------------------------
If you got no questions correct it means that you are exactly the kind of ignorant citizen your government desires.
1-3 questions correct means you could be dangerous.
4-6 questions correct means you must read to much.
7-10 questions correct means you must value historical correctness instead of political correctness. Congratulations!!
11 or more questions correct means you've been reading this website and learned the truth.
Now it's up to you to tell others the truth.
How much do you really know?
Here's a little MLK quiz to coincide with the upcoming MLK holiday.
Enjoy!
------------------------------
Many Americans don't know enough about MLK. After taking this quiz, you will see how little the schools, news media and political establishment have told you about the only American with his own
holiday.
1) Name the judge who has sealed King's FBI surveillance file until
the year 2027.
Answer: The Honorable John Lewis Smith, Jr.
2) According to whose 1989 biography did King spend his last night on
earth in an adulterous liaison?
Answer: Reverend Ralph Abernathy. "And the Walls Came Tumbling Down"
3) According to whose 1989 biography did King spend his last morning
on earth physically beating a woman?
Answer: Reverend Ralph Abernathy. "And the Walls Came Tumbling Down"
4) Who was the U.S. Attorney General who ordered the FBI to wiretap
King?
Answer: Robert F. Kennedy
5) Who was the Assistant Director of the FBI who wrote a letter to
Sen. John P. East (R-NC) describing King's conduct of "orgiastic and
adulterous escapades, some of which indicated that King could be
bestial in his sexual abuse of women."
Answer: Charles D. Brennan
6) Who called King a "hypocrite preacher."
Answer: President Lyndon B. Johnson
7) What U.S. newspaper reported that King had plagiarized his
doctoral thesis at Boston University.
Answer: The Wall Street Journal
8) Whom did King plagiarize in more than 50 complete sentences in his
doctoral thesis?
Answer: Dr. Jack Boozer
9) Who was the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities
who purposely suppressed knowledge of King's plagiarism of his
doctoral thesis?
Answer: Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Richard Cheney
10) What was Martin Luther King's real name?
Answer: Michael King, Jr. In 1935 his father, Michael King, declared
to his congregation that he wound henceforth be known as Martin
Luther King and his son would be known as Martin Luther King, Jr.
11) In his first public sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in 1947
who did King plagiarize?
Answer: Harry Emerson Fosdick
12) Name the man who served as King's personal secretary from 1955 to
1960, had joined the Young Communists League at New York City College
in 1936, went to prison for draft evasion in 1944, and in 1953 was
sentenced to 60 days in jail in California "lewd vagrancy and
homosexual perversion."
Answer: Bayard Rustin
13) According to whom had King "privately described himself as a
Marxist."
Answer: His biographer, David J. Garrow
14) Who edited King's book Stride Toward Freedom?
Answer: Communist Stanley Levison
15) Who made the following speech?
That's exactly what we mean-- from every mountain side, let freedom
ring.Not only from the Green Mountains and White Mountains of Vermont
and New Hampshire; not only from the Catskills of New York; but from
the Ozarks in Arkansas, from Stone Mountain in Georgia, from the Blue
Ridge Mountains of Virginia --let it ring not only for the minorities
of the United States, but for the disinherited of all the earth--from
every mountainside, LET FREEDOM RING!
Answer: Archibald Carey, 1952
------------------------------
If you got no questions correct it means that you are exactly the kind of ignorant citizen your government desires.
1-3 questions correct means you could be dangerous.
4-6 questions correct means you must read to much.
7-10 questions correct means you must value historical correctness instead of political correctness. Congratulations!!
11 or more questions correct means you've been reading this website and learned the truth.
Now it's up to you to tell others the truth.
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