(2015/01/30) Dispelling the selective memory of Dr. Martin Luther King (Repost)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 24 July 2015
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Summary
Edition #894
Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: An except from a lost MLK speech - @democracynow - Air Date: 1-19-15
Ch. 3: Song 1: We Shall Overcome - We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
Ch. 4: Act 2: MLK Day Should be for Everyone - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 01-20-15
Ch. 5: Song 2: Like a King - Welcome to the Cruel World
Ch. 6: Act 3: Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes You've Probably Never Heard Before - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 01-20-15
Ch. 7: Song 3: By the Time I Get to Arizona - Power to the People & the Beats - Public Enemy's Greatest Hits
Ch. 8: Act 4: Rev. Madison Shockley on the black liberation theology of MLK - @truthdig Radio - Air Date: 1-16-15
Ch. 9: Song 4: Glory (From the Motion Picture "Selma") - Glory (From the Motion Picture "Selma") - Single
Ch. 10: Act 5: Movement Building and the Importance of Youth - Tim Wise - Air Date: 12-5-14
Ch. 11: Song 5: A Dream - Freedom Writers
Ch. 12: Act 6: Demand Congress Address Civil and Human Rights via @civilrightsorg - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 13: Song 6: "This fickle world" - Theo Bard
Ch. 14: Act 7: Gary Younge, author of 'The Speech' with MLK - @Making_Contact - Air Date: 1-13-15
Voicemails
Ch. 16: Encouraging women to speak about their experiences with abortion - Zoe from Durham, NC
Ch. 17: This American Life did a segment on Vocal Fry - Ruben from San Jose
Ch. 18: Thoughts on the impermanence of "culture" - Nathan from Vancouver, WA
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 19: Final comments on the invention of racism by the powerful to divide the powerless
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
Activism: Demand Congress Address Civil and Human Rights via @civilrightsorg
Take Action:
Add your name: Congress Must Address Civil and Human Rights Priorities in 2015 via The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
Additional Activism/Resources:
Go. See. Selma. Find listings HERE
Sources/further reading:
"Will Justice Scalia Be the Savior of the Fair Housing Act?” at ACLU.org
"Civil and Human Rights Coalition Troubled by Deletion of “Civil Rights and Human Rights” from Senate Constitution Subcommittee” press release from The Leadership Conference
“Yes, The Oscars Are So White, And Here’s Why That Matters” at MTV.com
#OscarsSoWhite via @ReignOfApril
”Ava DuVernay: ‘Selma’ Is the ‘Vision of a Black Storyteller Undiluted’” by Mychal Denzel Smith at The Nation
"Congress Will Be in Session Longer Next Year. Will It Make a Difference?” by Kate Scanlon at The Daily Signal
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| 0:20.6 | Now, the Tom Hartman program, the Young Turks, Truth Dig Radio, Anti-Racism Educator |
| 0:26.0 | Tim Wise and Making Contact. |
| 0:30.1 | While Dr. King is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader, he also championed the |
| 0:34.6 | cause of the poor, organizing the poor people's campaign to address issues of economic justice. |
| 0:40.6 | Dr. King was also a fierce critic of US foreign policy in the Vietnam War. |
| 0:45.9 | In 1964, Dr. King became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. |
| 0:52.3 | Things before he received that award in Oslo, Norway. |
| 0:56.3 | Dr. King traveled to London. |
| 0:58.8 | On December 7, 1964, Dr. King gave a speech sponsored by the British Group Christian Action |
| 1:05.0 | about the civil rights struggle in the United States, as well as the anti-aparitate movement |
| 1:10.3 | in South Africa. |
| 1:11.7 | The speech was recorded by Saul Bernstein who was working as the European correspondent |
| 1:16.0 | for Pacifica Radio. |
| 1:17.9 | Bernstein's recording was recently discovered by Brian De Shaser, director of the Pacifica |
| 1:23.0 | Radio Archives. |
| 1:24.7 | This is that address by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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