#NeverAgain and the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
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🗓️ 30 March 2018
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Last week, in a coordinated effort by many grassroots groups, a series of protests against gun violence took place in communities around the world. Jelani Cobb joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss how today's activists are adapting Civil Rights-era principles to organize twenty-first-century movements.
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| 1:12.1 | This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics. |
| 1:18.2 | It's Friday, March 30th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker. |
| 1:23.7 | In April 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech in New York, protesting the Vietnam War and laying out the next phase of the civil rights movement. |
| 1:34.3 | We as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. |
| 1:40.3 | We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society |
| 1:50.0 | when machines and consumers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people. |
| 1:58.0 | The giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and |
| 2:03.4 | militarism are incapable of being conquered. A year later to the day, King was assassinated in Memphis |
| 2:12.2 | at the age of 39. Jelani Cobb joins me to discuss Martin Luther King's legacy and how today's activists are adapting |
| 2:21.9 | principles and tactics from the civil rights era to organize a coalition of 21st century |
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