Colorado Independent Media Center

MLK JR. STOOD FOR SOMETHING
TAKE BACK MLK DAY

For a Peoples March in Denver, CO on MLK DAY

Public Meeting
@
Blackberries Ice
Cream and Coffee
Lounge
Tuesday October
23, 2007
5:45-7:45pm
Phone: 303-863-8029
hcrazycat@yahoo.com

“There is at the outset a very obvious and almost facile connection between the war in Vietnam
and the struggle I and others have been waging in America. A few years ago there was a shining
moment in that struggle. It seemed as if there was a real promise of hope for the poor, both black
and white, through the poverty program. There were experiments, hopes, new beginnings. Then
came the buildup in Vietnam, and I watched this program broken and eviscerated as if it were
some idle political plaything of a society gone mad on war. And I knew that America would never
invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like
Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic, destructive suction tube.
So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.”
Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. is revered around the world as a leader with great conscience. During
has last year of life he underwent a political shift and began to speak on the worldwide
problem of the oppressed demanding freedom from a common oppressor, but here in the U.S.
his memory has been co-opted and given back to us as a benign figure. Now it is time, that
here in Denver, we take back his commemoration from big business and make it relevant. It is
time that we turn the commemoration into an indictment of imperialism, and national
oppression and build unity of the oppressed. We must do this:

For the Jena Six
For the people of New Orleans
For indigenous people
For immigrant workers
For the people of Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti, Columbia and the oppressed
around the world
Shut Down the War Machine
Stop Police Brutality
Long Live international Solidarity