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MLK Assassination Day Desecrated by NATO Festivities
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
26 Mar 2019
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The Trump regime will host NATO’s 70th anniversary celebrations in Washington on April 4, the day Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968. “We see this as a grotesque desecration of the legacy of Dr. King, who opposed wars and militarism,” said Netfa Freemanof the Black Alliance for Peace, which will gather at the Plymouth Congregational Church, in Washington, on April 4 to say “No” to U.S. wars.

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