“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)
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
#MLKGlobal is a new international initiative of London-based UK non-profit Tipping Point North South and has been developed with our colleagues in the United States: Yolande Cadore and Jamye Wooten, Kinetics Live DR. KING – AN EARLY ADVOCATE OF GLOBAL SOLIDARITY Dr. King was – and remains – beloved of peoples around the world. His… Continue reading DR. KING – AN EARLY ADVOCATE OF GLOBAL SOLIDARITY
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? Fifty years on, what would MLK have to say about the pressing issues facing our communities, societies and planet? Tell us what you think. Devised by our MLK GLOBAL partners in the USA, KINETICS has produced our first action, launched on the 50th anniversary of Dr. King’s death and… Continue reading Actions
by Miles Megaciph, Veterans For Peace On this weekend, fifty years ago, Dr Martin Luther King Jr. was prepared for his last days. At 39 years of age, possessing a deep wealth of wisdom; he seemed to sense the enemy was about to take his life. On the eve of his assassination, while delivering his iconic… Continue reading A Breeze of Change is Coming, 50 Years Later
Many Americans tend to think of Martin Luther King Jr. solely as a leader of African Americans — or, even more narrowly, of southern blacks. We overlook his worldwide reach and his global vision. Half a century after King’s death, that vision remains both strikingly relevant and sadly unrealized. Just as King hoped white Americans… Continue reading Martin Luther King Jr.’s Vision Was More Global Than We Remember.
