Martin Luther King Memorial
Inter-Generational Community Readings
“Beyond Vietnam:A Time to Break the Silence”
The day after the anniversary of this prophetic speech (1967) and his assassination (1968)
Public, Shared Readings
12 noon, 2 pm and 4:30 pm
Be part of a mosaic of voices, reawakening King’s power
for the here and now
Sign up for a certain time at <bit.ly/MLKReaderReg>
or just show up. There are 16 segments for each reading.
This event is part of the Global Day Against Military Spending (GDAMS), April 5 to 18 <demilitarize.org>
Link to the speech: https://tinyurl.com/MLKSpeechInSections
Sponsoring Organizations
BAY-Peace, Better Alternatives for Youth; Labor Committee for Peace & Justice; Women’s Int’l League for Peace & Freedom (SF & East Bay); United for Peace & Justice-Bay Area; Western States Legal Foundation; Asian-Americans for Peace & Justice; Jewish Voice for Peace-Bay Area; Nafsi Ya Jamii; East Bay Peace Action, Haiti Action Committee
“Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.”
“I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today–my own government.