Happy Birthday, brother Martin by MixMasterE

Another year has come to reflect upon your legacy and examine the many ways we have progressed and fallen short of your vision of a beloved community. Looking at the world today, it appears as if we have a long way to go, but I still retain the hope that it will become a reality.

'Why I Oppose The War in Vietnam" is by far MLK's most critical and visionary speech (and largely ignored for obvious reasons) in my opinion. although the U.S media mostly derided it as "demagogic slander". Here it is in it's full beauty and power: http://www.wrybread.com/misc/vietnam/martin_luther_king_on_vietnam.mp3

Landmark speeches by MLK: http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/mlkpapers/

"Courage is an inner decision to go forward in spite of obstacles and frightening situations...Courage faces fear and thereby masters it...
We must constantly build walls of courage to hold back the flood of fear."

- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

So, Who Cares For The Sudanese? Genocide & The Diversions of Perception by MixMasterE

400,000 non-Arabs have been slaughtered and about 2.5 million have been driven out of their villages. 3.5 million are without the food, water and shelter they need to survive. Women/girls are being raped. The Sudanese government is playing lip-service to appease the international community .The Bush cabal has acknowledged that what the Arabs are doing to the indigenous black population is ethnic cleansing or genocide--but no massive humanitarian aid or military
personnel has been deployed in what the UN considers the worst humanitarian crisis in
the world. Strange how one can raid the Treasury to invade another country under false pretenses and utterly ruin it to satisy the lust for resources yet when real people-- innocent people--are being wiped away like useless brush, there is no funding for any type of resistance or large-scale humanitarian effort.

Do you see the utter inhumanity and unrepentent insanity?

There is something though that Sudan has in common with Iraq which may explain the
twisted logic of the ruling class: oil.

Being the 7th largest oil producer in Africa, this oil lies below the killing fields of South Sudan.

Is it not hideously obvious?

But you probably will not see this link in the comfortably back-pocketed U.S media.

The ancient rivalries between the indigenous black Sudanese and the invaders (Arabs), though sadly true, gets overblown so as to cover up the more important aspect of this bloody spectacle: the lust for oil by industrialized nations and their flesh-eating Leviathans
(oil corporations).

Educate yourself and then spread the word via the links below:

http://www.markfiore.com/animation/gentle.html ( great animation)

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0819-26.htm

http://www.raceandhistory.com/historicalviews/2005/28032.html

http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/sudan2.html

Happy New Year

Happy New Year!! 

 

Yep. We have to keep the candle of hope burning in spite of the encroaching darkness. In this vein, I ran across this essay entitled "From Hope To Hopelessness" by Margaret Wheatley  which I thoroughly enjoyed. What an inspiring piece to set off 2006.

Read: From Hope To Hopelessness

I'm the last person who can quote anything from the Bible, but one saying I do remember which is appropo is: "Faith is the evidence of things not seen....." True, some can use this quote to support their fanatical beliefs, but it can also be truly inspiring if one remains open yet critically engaged with his/her surroundings.

Peace