From Memphis to Madison: The April 4 Stand For Economic Justice

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http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2011031223/memphis-madison-april-4-stand-economic-justice

By Isaiah J. Poole

March 23, 2011 - 3:22pm ET

"We are determined to be people. We are saying that we are God's children. And that we don't have to live like we are forced to live."
—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speech in Memphis, Tenn., April 3, 1968

Through our scientific and technological genius, we have made of this world a neighborhood and yet we have not had the ethical commitment to make of it a brotherhood. But somehow, and in some way, we have got to do this.

On April 4, we will be called on not to merely remember that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on that day in 1968, but to recall what he was about to do on the day he was shot—and why the mission he was on that day very much matters to the struggle of working people (and those who want to become working people) today.