Journée anniversaire : Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States - Martin Luther King Day. On peut relire : Et ce mec a été élu...
▻https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/martin-luther-king-day
▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Day
▻http://oxymoron-fractal.blogspot.fr/2017/01/un-peu-de-vitamine-c.html --- #Martin_Luther_King
Mentionné dans : La Schtroumpfette et les Lotus Yin-Yang = ▻http://oxymoron-fractal.blogspot.fr/2017/01/la-schtroumpfette-et-les-lotus-yin-yang.html
Autre chose : Harry Whitaker - Black Renaissance
Recorded on Martin Luther King Day in 1976, with money Whitaker had saved from his successful partnership with Roberta Flack, Renaissance was basically bootlegged by a Japanese label (Baystate), who never bothered to inform Whitaker as to its release. When Baystate folded, copies virtually vanished, leaving Whitaker with no distribution, no money, and no way to hear the actual LP. To make matters worse, the master tapes of the recording were destroyed in a fire.
Luckily, the vital reissue label Ubiquity Records has saved the day, keeping this record from being lost to history. Somehow acquiring the rights to the album, they received Whitaker’s permission to give Renaissance a proper release, 25 years after its birth.
(texte all things deep ▻http://www.allthingsdeep.com/reviews/black_renaissance.htm)
Google Doodle Celebrates Martin Luther King Day
►http://mashable.com/2012/01/16/google-doodle-celebrates-martin-luther-king-day
The illustrated logo depicts Dr. King surrounded by young faces. It includes a line from the famous “I Have a Dream” speech he gave from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to 250,000 civil rights marchers on August 28, 1963: “I have a dream that my four little children will not be judged by their color of their skin … I have a dream today.”
The Rag Blog: Mike Davis : Ten Immodest Commandments
►http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/mike-davis-ten-immodest-commandments.html
First, the categorical imperative is to organize or rather to facilitate other peoples’ self-organization. Catalyst is good, but organization is better.
Second, leadership must be temporary and subject to recall. The job of a good organizer, as it was often said in the civil rights movement, is to organize herself out of a job, not to become indispensable.
Third, protesters must subvert the media’s constant tendency toward metonymy — the designation of the whole by a part, the group by an individual. (Consider how bizarre it is, for instance, that we have “Martin Luther King Day” rather than “Civil Rights Movement Day.”) Spokespeople should regularly be rotated and when necessary, shot.
Fourth, the same warning applies to the relationship between a movement and individuals who participate as an organized bloc. I very much believe in the necessity of an organic revolutionary left, but groups can only claim authenticity if they give priority to building the struggle and keep no secret agenda from other participants.
Fifth, as we learned the hard way in the 1960s, consensual democracy is not identical to participatory democracy. For affinity groups and communes, consensus decision-making may work admirably, but for any large or long-term protest, some form of representative democracy is essential to allow the broadest and most equal participation. The devil, as always, is in the details: ensuring that any delegate can be recalled, formalizing rights of political minorities, guaranteeing affirmative representation, and so on.
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Some young activists might put their Bakunin, Lenin, or Slavoj Zizek temporarily aside and dust off a copy of FDR’s 1944 campaign platform: an Economic Bill of Rights.