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DESCRIPTION:Martin Luther King Jr's Emergent Labor Philosophy\n\nBy 1967, MLK, both in 
 his speeches and sermons, decisively called for either full employment or a 
 guaranteed income in order to constructively combat poverty. The puzzle was 
 how to pitch this advocacy to a nation hyped on 'Red Scare' rhetoric and 
 union-bashing fulminations. Join David Giesen, local author and educator, 
 as he charts the deepest roots of MLK's social philosophy, founded in the 
 profoundly labor-friendly ethos of Biblical economic thought: universal 
 guaranteed vacation time, periodic debt forgiveness, social security, and 
 workplace autonomy. Giesen traces the writings of MLK, marking King's 
 evolving labor-rights thinking in developing an assertion that, at the time 
 of his assassination, King teetered on the edge of calling for the 
 nationalization of natural resources. Throughout his public service, King 
 regularly acknowledged the necessity of reconciling the social aims of 
 Communism with Christianity's uplifting of the individual soul. Giesen 
 asserts the secular economic law of the Hebrew Torah provided King with the 
 public policy inspiration and the rhetoric with which to do just that, and 
 to win over the Christian Right into the bargain.\n\nRefreshments will be 
 served, so come prepared to snack, get stoked on the long history of labor 
 struggles reaching back 3,000 years, and to renew King's combat with low 
 wage-creating public policy.\n\nFor more information, contact Giesen, 
 info@TheCommonsSF.org\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/07/08/18774663.php
SUMMARY:LaborFest: The emergent Labor advocacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
LOCATION:Street parklet\n903 Cortland Ave.\nSF, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/07/08/18774663.php
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