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Martin Luther King Jr. honoured on anniversary of assassination
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by Amy Judd | April 4, 2008 at 09:36 am
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Everyone from presidential candidates, civil rights leaders, labour activists and citizens of the world will come together to honour the man who stood for racial equality and justice for all.
King was cut down on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel on April 4, 1968, while helping to organize a strike by Memphis sanitation workers, then some of the most impoverished of the city's workers. His confessed killer James Earl Ray died in prison in 1998.
Members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which represented the workers then and now, marched Friday from their downtown headquarters to the motel, now a civil rights museum.
Presidential candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton and John McCain were scheduled to take part in later anniversary day events that were to include an afternoon "recommitment march" and the laying of wreaths at the site. Barack Obama will be campaigning in Indiana.
'Hear the message'
"The whole nation flinched" when King was killed, said writer Cynthia Griggs Fleming, one of the many historians, commentators and activists in town for panel discussions and lectures on King's legacy.
King advised his followers to keep working for equal rights for all citizens, "to keep on moving," no matter what obstacles they faced, Fleming said in a talk Thursday at a Memphis church.
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at 09:40 on April 4th, 2008
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at 17:54 on April 4th, 2008
The same people who killed Rev. King are also the same who killed JFK, and did 911. They are destroying America by making us believe the military is the new ruling branch of Government. We are under seige. I only hope people see the good from Rev. King, Thomas Merton, AJ Muste, as being people who recognized that War is caused by US not them, and in order to stop War, we need to stop US and know that there is no way to peace, because peace is the way. I say throw down your guns GI and NRA and come home. You have no future or career that supports guns and illegal war. You are supported by American tax dollars that are not freely given to you, it is being robbed from real Americans by the pointing of your guns at us. But we will prevail because we are not fighting back with guns, we are fighting back with resolve and confidence that mankind will survive without guns being forced down our throats, bullets forced in our heads, bombs forced down our family lineage. We believe in God, and his first command was to give us freedom. This does not mean using force; because that takes away freedom. Martin Luther King died at the hands of a conspiracy, and so so many conspiracies have been waged against America. Its about time we clearly see who are the conspiracy advocates, and tell them we are not afraid. Go ahead and kill me, because I will be with the saints who made this nation great and be with their presense in the heavens and be remembered in the hearts of the nation that is always occupied with violence and the auspices of War. The only war in the world is not the war on terror. It is the War of Nonviolence against Violent society. I am a terrorist because I use my weapon of Nonviolence to defeat you. Nonviolent terrorism is good and will always defeat you, because we spill no blood. It is you Violent America who spills the blood of our brothers and sisters.
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