Posts Tagged ‘ Martin Luther King ’

George Clooney Arrested in Protest Outside Sudan Embassy in D.C.

March 16, 2012 11:19 am
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George Clooney Arrested in Protest Outside Sudan Embassy in D.C.

Actor, activist George Clooney was arrested and handcuffed a short time ago, outside of the Sudanese embassy in Washington, D.C. for protesting Sudan’s blockage of “food and aid from entering the Nuba Mountains area of the country, as well as its treatment of its people.” Clooney’s father, journalist Nick Clooney, 78, was with him and was also arrested, as were Martin Luther King III, NAACP President Ben Jealous, Rep Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) and Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) and former...

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The Sad Irony of this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

January 16, 2012 8:58 pm
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The Sad Irony of this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Gandhi was able to translate Thoreau's theoretical clarity into strategy and tactics, and King and Mandela were able to perfect them. And those tactics toppled the dictatorships of Egypt and Tunisia last year, before the wave of non-violence of the "Arab Spring" was quashed in the classical gunfire of repression. A more profound wave of world revolution has rarely happened even WITH guns. Without guns, it is astonishing.

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