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King said the best anti-poverty program is a union, where you can fight for your own agenda — somebody doesn’t have to hand it to you.
King explicitly linked the value of human dignity to the material conditions necessary to enable people to live a decent life.
Each year in January as King is honored in the eyes of the public, there is little mention of the demands of the man and his mission: his fight for
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Gwen Debrow of the Campaign to Free Mumia joins to tell us what we can do to go all out for Mumia during the July 3rd nationwide actions.
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A 1980 speech by Black lesbian poet and activist Pat Parker provides a feminist, anti-imperialist blueprint for the present.
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