“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly” Rev Martin Luther King Jnr (1963)
Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church – then and now. As the confederate flag was held aloft by white supremacist Trump supporters inside the smashed up heart of USA democracy, it’s clear that America is not turning the corner away from Trumpism. Rather, it seems even darker times are ahead as Biden takes office and the battle… Continue reading MLK Day: Dismantling MLK’s Triple Evils – Let’s Transform Defence for Sustainable Human Safety
GEORGE FLOYD REST IN PEACE The last words of George Floyd “I can’t breathe” It’s my face man. I didn’t do nothing serious man. Please. Please. Please. I can’t breathe. Please man. Please somebody. Please man. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe please. Man I can’t breathe. My face. Just get up. I can’t breathe.… Continue reading MLK Global’s statement on the killing of George Floyd
MLK Had a Dream of Guaranteed Income. As Mayors of 11 U.S. Cities, We Are Bringing That Dream to Life Michael D. Tubbs is the mayor of Stockton, Calif. Chokwe Antar Lumumba is the mayor of Jackson, Miss. Melvin Carter is the mayor of St. Paul, Minn. Ras J. Baraka is the mayor of Newark,… Continue reading MLK Had a Dream of Guaranteed Income
The solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income. … We are likely to find that the problems of housing and education, instead of preceding the elimination of poverty, will themselves be affected if poverty is first abolished. Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go… Continue reading In times of Coronavirus: UBI is an idea whose time has finally come
Martin Luther King Jr. courageously spoke out about the Vietnam War. We must do the same when it comes to this grave injustice of our time. On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his assassination, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stepped up to the lectern at the Riverside Church in Manhattan. The United… Continue reading Time to Break the Silence on Palestine
And we should also stop trying to decide whether someone “deserves” social support. We have been trying to distinguish between the “deserving” and “undeserving” poor for eight hundred years, and we are no better able to make that judgement now than we were in the fourteenth century, or the sixteenth, or the nineteenth. It is time to… Continue reading A very British disease By Frances Coppola
BLOOMSBURY BAPTIST CHURCH SATURDAY 23 JUNE 2018 Baptists Together Justice Hub in association with Tipping Point North South/ MLK Global Screening of the 1970 film “King, a Filmed Record… Montgomery to Memphis” followed by a panel discussion Welcome by Rev. Dr. Simon Woodman 'It's 50 years since the assassination of Baptist minister Dr Martin… Continue reading Screening of “King, a Filmed Record” at Bloomsbury Baptist Church London
