Deeply touched by the civil rights movement as a teenager in high school, I was transformed by the anti-war movement and the SDS by the time I graduated from a small midwestern college in 1969. I could no longer look at the so-called American Dream as anything but a nightmare for the countless people oppressed by what Dr. King called "the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism" as he came out against the Vietnam War at a speech at Riverside Church in NYC in 1967.
Amidst the outpouring of revolutionary energy that has emerged in the
wake of the police murder of George Floyd, Amy Goodman and the team at
Democracy Now! produced a special episode on July 3.
Opening with a reading of Fredrick Douglas's 1852 Independence Day Address, "What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?" by James Earl Jones, this gripping one hour show features interviews about recent events with Angela Davis, Cornell West, Keeanga-Yamahhta Taylor, and Tamika Mallory
Please take the time to watch and listen. Then pass it along.
Opening with a reading of Fredrick Douglas's 1852 Independence Day Address, "What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?" by James Earl Jones, this gripping one hour show features interviews about recent events with Angela Davis, Cornell West, Keeanga-Yamahhta Taylor, and Tamika Mallory
Please take the time to watch and listen. Then pass it along.
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