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Best of G&R: Remembering Martin Luther King Jr., Radical, Democratic Socialist and Opponent of State Violence (G&R 268)

Best of G&R: Remembering Martin Luther King Jr., Radical, Democratic Socialist and Opponent of State Violence (G&R 268)

FromGreen & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals


Best of G&R: Remembering Martin Luther King Jr., Radical, Democratic Socialist and Opponent of State Violence (G&R 268)

FromGreen & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals

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Length:
74 minutes
Released:
Jan 15, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This weekend, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, lots of Democratic politicians, Republican politicians and corporate weapons manufacturers, fossil fuel companies and Wall Street will engage in their annual performance praising Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy of non-violence and racial harmony.

This particularly disgusting in 2024 as Biden is pouring weapons into Israel fueling the slaughter of Palestinians, pouring weapons into Ukraine fueling a bloody war in Europe, bombing Yemen and so much more.

In response to this nausea inducing displace, we're reposting our MLK day episode from 2021. In it, we talk about the radical politics of  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We discuss King's democratic socialist  beliefs, his stance against the war in Vietnam, the campaigns he worked  on, --including the 1968 Olympic Boycott and the Poor People's  Campaign--, and his thoughts on property destruction.    
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Links// 
+Buzzanco: MLK for Sale (http://bit.ly/2LzGR9S) 
+Martin Luther King on riots and property destruction (http://bit.ly/3nHPvAk) 
+VIDEO: Beyond Vietnam - A Time to Break Silence (https://bit.ly/3spBgnr)  

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This is a Green and Red Podcast production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody.    Editing most excellent by Isaac.
Released:
Jan 15, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Welcome to our scrappy podcast. Bob Buzzanco and Scott Parkin co-host a regular podcast to discuss radical environmental and anti-capitalist politics with organizers, academics, artists and more. Bob Buzzanco is a professor of history at the University of Houston. He specializes in, writes about and talks on the Vietnam War era, foreign policy, Vietnam, radical social movements, economics, and other stuff. Scott Parkin is climate organizer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has organized campaigns against Wall Street banks, mountaintop removal coal mining and the Keystone XL pipeline.