Middle East – MLK Global

1968 and today: Stats to Shock

November 23, 2017January 19, 2019 TPNS

This is the excerpt for a featured post.

MLK Global marks 50 years since Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. His ‘last great exertion’ in 1967/68 was the Poor People’s Campaign and an Economic Bill of Rights.

MLK Global calls for a renewed ‘internationalising’ of Dr. King’s vision. In particular, for global civil society to unite around his ever-more relevant demand for an end to the inter-connected ‘triple evils’ of economic exploitation, racism and militarism.

MLK Global believes that Dr. King’s analysis of the underlying structures that reinforce inequality speaks to peoples across the global north & south who share a deep desire for long-overdue change. MLK Global wants to see a renewed awareness of his 5-point Economic Bill of Rights, re-envisioned for today. Economic inequalities, racism, militarism & climate change are destroying families, communities, nations and the very planet we live on. The time to fulfil Dr. King’s vision of a “radical redistribution of power” is now.