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DESCRIPTION:Join us for a live virtual reading of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's 
 speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence”. Well-known advocates 
 will be joined by grassroots organizers who will read the speech. A 
 moderated panel discussion will follow the readings offering perspectives 
 about the relevance of Dr. King’s speech to peace and justice work 
 today.\n\n It promises to be an inspiring program. \n\nSunday, April 4, 
 2021 at 4 PM PT (7 PM ET) \n\nhttps://kingandbreakingsilence.org/\n\nLive 
 ASL + Spanish Translation\n\n\nThe online live panelists and moderator 
 following the reading are:\n\n--Barbara Ransby (Moderator) – Author, 
 Historian, Professor, and Activist (Making All Black Lives Matter, Ella 
 Baker, and the Black Freedom Movement)\n\n--Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson 
 (Panelist) – Community Organizer and Co-Executive Director, Highlander 
 Research and Education Center\n\n--Bill McKibben (Panelist) – Climate 
 Action Leader (350.org) \n\n--Dr. Corrine Sanchez (Panelist) – Executive 
 Director, Tewa Women United\n\n--Medea Benjamin (Panelist) – Political 
 Activist and Co-Founder, Code Pink\n\n\nApril 4th is the date Rev. Dr. 
 Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968 while he was in Memphis, 
 Tennessee to support sanitation workers. \n\nExactly one year before, on 
 April 4, 1967, Dr. King gave one of his most consequential speeches titled, 
 “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence”. This speech was the first 
 time he publicly called for an end to the U.S. war in Vietnam and for unity 
 and action to end the triple threats of militarism, racism, and extreme 
 materialism.\n\nBy April 1967 over 1 million Vietnamese, Laotians, and 
 Cambodians and 16,000 U.S. military personnel had died in the Vietnam war. 
 The countryside and cities in the south and the north had been devastated 
 by combat, bombing, and use of toxic defoliants like Agent Orange. \n\n In 
 the U.S. the anti-war movement had mobilized hundreds of thousands of 
 people in local and national demonstrations plus tens of thousands who had 
 challenged the draft.  As Dr. King explained, many of those drafted and 
 dying were young, African American men while the demand for justice at home 
 was accelerating, bringing new levels of repression. The connections 
 between the wars abroad and the wars at home were becoming increasingly 
 clear. \n\nThe Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was one of 
 the first organizations to denounce the war and emphasize the hypocrisy of 
 the U.S. government claiming to defend democracy abroad while denying 
 democracy at home. Rev. Dr. King’s address at Riverside Church built upon 
 the work of activists and projected a powerful call to unite these 
 struggles conceptually and strategically.\n\nMany organizations have come 
 together to promote national and local readings of Dr. King’s “Breaking 
 Silence” speech in communities across the country to study the lessons of 
 this speech and to convene local coalitions working for justice. The list 
 includes: SNCC Legacy Project, National Council of Elders, Vietnam Peace 
 Commemoration Committee, The Highlander Research and Education Center, 
 National Black Justice Coalition, Zinn Education Project, Voices of a 
 People’s History, Fellowship of Reconciliation, National Civil Rights 
 Museum, and Cleveland Peace Action.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/04/02/18841306.php
SUMMARY:‘Breaking The Silence’: MLK JR's Anti-War Speech & Anniversary of His Assassination
LOCATION:Online event w/ ASL + Spanish translation
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/04/02/18841306.php
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