by Brian Dockstader | Apr 4, 2011 | Blog
April 4 marks the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, murdered in 1968 while fighting for the rights of striking Memphis sanitation workers. This event is brilliantly chronicled in the acclaimed documentary, At the River I Stand. This year's...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 4, 2011 | Blog
Years ago, I visited Memphis, Tenn., to attend a conference. The conference coincided with the anniversary of Elvis Presley's death, and thousands of fans were in Memphis to visit Graceland. I visited the Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King Jr....
by Leo Gerard | Apr 1, 2011 | Blog, Minimum Wage
The nation’s greedy corporations and insatiable wealthy are fattening themselves on workers. There’s no trickle down. It’s the opposite; the rich have been sucking the economic lifeblood from the middle class for decades. When reckless Wall Street banksters get...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 1, 2011 | Blog
"We are determined to be people. We are saying that we are God's children. And that we don't have to live like we are forced to live." —Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speech in Memphis, Tenn., April 3, 1968 On April 4, we will be called on not to merely remember that Dr....
by Bill Scher | Apr 1, 2011 | Blog
On April 4, "We Are One" community-based actions will be taking place all over the country, in honor of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination while trying to organize sanitation workers in Memphis, and in solidarity with working people all over America facing...
