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From: [email protected]
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 8:04 PM
Subject: Fwd: MLK Coalition to Mobilize for Protests During Obama Visit on
Sept. 26th
The MLK Coalition Coordinating Committee voted on Wednesday, September 7th, to
mobilize for protests during a fundraising visit by President Obama on Sept.
26th.
This decision was confirmed at our general monthly meeting on Saturday,
September 10th.
The Martin Luther King Coalition for Jobs,
Justice and Peace brings together community
groups and individuals taking up the fight for
human rights, social and economic justice and
world peace where Dr. King left off. We are
helping to build a broad and deeply-rooted
peoples' movement capable of organizing
effectively around these issues on a day to day basis.
Today’s needs are even more urgent than those in
Dr. King’s day: The government wages war around
the globe, incarcerates millions, and deports and
detains record numbers of immigrants, while it
slashes benefits, jobs, schools and colleges, and
the social safety net. Corporations buy
politicians and elections, feed at the public
trough, and monopolize wealth, while they ruin
the environment, smash unions, and cut pay,
benefits and jobs. These realities can and must
be changed through people power!
We engage in direct action and civic education to
advance the ideals for which Dr. King lived and
died. We truly believe that together, ordinary people from many walks
of life can make a real difference in how our
communities function, interact and thrive. In unity there is strength!
"I think the real problem today is there is still a tragic gulf between promise
and fulfillment, and that the rising expectations of freedom and equality, the
rising expectations of improvement have met with little results." --- Rev. Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Join us on the second Saturday each month from 2-4:30pm
Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research,
6120 South Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles CA 90044 (north of Gage)
Visit us on Facebook: MLK Coalition for Jobs, Justice and Peace and
at our website to confirm our meeting date, time and place:
www.mlkcoalitionforjobsjusticeandpeace.org
Call us at: 213-884-5190.
STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES
of The Martin Luther King Coalition for Jobs, Justice and Peace
The Martin Luther King Coalition is committed to struggle for:
(1) popular democracy
(2) economic justice and more equitable distribution of wealth, abolishing
poverty
(3) global peace and an end to the militarization of our economy and society
(4) racial justice and an end to racism
(5) women’s rights and an end to sexism
(6) workers’ rights and support for unionism
(7) equal rights of the LGBT community and an end to the homophobia
(8) immigrant rights and against xenophobia
(9) decent and affordable housing for all
(10) free universal health care including dental, mental, and optical care
(11) reliable free universal education for all who desire to learn
(12) comfortable, affordable and environmentally friendly public transportation
(13) the development of safe, clean, sustainable energy production near points
of consumption
(14) the sustainable development and a remedy to the damage which has been
inflicted upon the air, land, water and living resources of our planet
(15) an end to all forms of police abuse, political repression and mass
incarceration
(16) an end to judicial corruption and politicization of the courts
(17) civil rights and civil liberties, including freedom of conscience
(18) freedom of speech and the press, and democratic public control of
broadcasting on publicly owned airwaves
(19) international solidarity, opposition to colonialism and imperialism, and
support for the justice struggles of oppressed nations and peoples throughout
the world
(20) the rights, interests and options of youths in our society
(21) the rights, interests and options of the elderly in our society.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thu, Sep 1, 2011 1:56 pm
Subject: Re: New messages from Dorothy, Lauren, Jordan, and 4 others
Lauren: I think this is an excellent idea. I'll bring it up to the MLK
Coalition coordinating committee next week. --- Kwazi Nkrumah.
-----Original Message-----
From: Facebook <[email protected]>
To: Kwazi Nkrumah <[email protected]>
Sent: Thu, Sep 1, 2011 7:03 am
Subject: New messages from Dorothy, Lauren, Jordan, and 4 others
Conversation with Marcy Winograd, David Allgood, Heather
Meyer, Kwazi Nkrumah, Sabina Virgo, Linda Milazzo, Kim Kaufman, Jordan Gomez,
Dorothy Reik, Mary Beth Fielder, James Parris, Mimi Kennedy, Bill Honigman,
Will Coley, Chrissy Eleanor-Scarborough Cutting, Sophie Korn, Richard R. J
Eskow, Dick Price, Sharon Kyle, Jodie Evans, Robert Greenwald and Lauren Steiner
Lauren Steiner 1:49pm Aug 30
Obama is going to be at a fundraiser at the House of
Blues on Monday, Sep. 26 at 4:30. How about we all mobilize our groups for a
protest outside? We can have different signs for all the issues he has
disappointed us on: END THE WARS, STOP PROSECUTING WHISTLEBLOWERS, HELP MAIN
STREET NOT WALL STREET, IMMIGRATION REFORM NOT DEPORTATIONS, SUPPORT PUBLIC
WORKERS UNIONS, STOP THE KEYSTONE 2 PIPELINE, etc. etc. I think this could be
really effective. Who's in?
Jordan Gomez 2:34pm Aug 30
Will bring this up when I meet my local dream
activists. They are pissed about secure communities, and the deportations that
are still happening.
Heather Meyer 7:10pm Aug 30
I'll bring it to Coffee Party LA on Saturday and
hopefully we'll discuss it at the MLK coalition for Jobs, Justice & Peace the
Saturday after too. Thanks!
Marcy Winograd 12:49pm Aug 31
I/We can bring it up at the next PDLA meeting, second
Sat. of next month at the Peace Center on Sepulveda, 10-1 pm.
Sophie Korn 1:41pm Aug 31
Great idea Lauren!
Chrissy Eleanor-Scarborough Cutting 1:56pm Aug 31
A lot of ppl in LA are interested in a follow-up to the
Keystone action, I bet this would be a good opportunity for those folks.
Dorothy Reik 4:49pm Aug 31
<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000;
font-size:8pt;"><div>I can bring it up at PDSMM. How much is it? Can we get
someone inside??? Maybe Dick and Sharon can get in on a press pass! I could as
the Topanga Messenger too.</div><div><br></div><div>Dorothy
Reik<br>PDSMM<br>310-291-1300</div><div><br><br></div>
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Lauren Steiner 5:21pm Aug 31
It's expensive. Tickets are up to $17,000. I will tell you
that I have been in daily contact with Obama's finance co-chair in California.
And if we want, I can probably get him to get Obama to meet with us outside for
a few minutes as long as I promise that we will be polite. I don't see a
problem with that, does anyone else?
Lauren Steiner 5:23pm Aug 31
By the way, the reason I am in daily contact is I know him
from when our kids were in pre-school together. And I've been sending him
articles about why everybody, not just the "professional left", is upset with
Obama and trying to get him to suggest to Obama that compromising isn't working
for him and he should go bold.
Jordan Gomez 5:34pm Aug 31
Probably not the best idea, considering if other people show
up, that promise can be hard to keep.
Lauren Steiner 5:51pm Aug 31
Yes, and I was also thinking that if I gave him advance
notice and Obama didn't want to meet with us, then he could easily be ushered
in the back door and not even see our protest.
Dorothy Reik
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font-size:8pt;"><div>I could try to be polite. Do you really think he would
bother to talk to us or that he would even care what we say? He only cares
what people with $17,000 have to say. <BR></div>
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<div>Dorothy Reik<BR>PDSMM<BR>310-291-1300</div>
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