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United Struggle - Tribute to MLK and Revolutionaries Around the World Reflections on Logic of Inquiry
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On Martin Luther King day, 2021, I released this song. In this song I combine beats, melodies, chants, and calls to action from revolutionaries around the world, past and present. Let us never give up fighting for a better and more just tomorrow!
Today, let us celebrate the bold and continued United Struggle against intersecting systems of oppression rooted in racism, colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism! From the Civil Rights Era of the 60s, to the Black Lives Matter Movement of today, from the struggles against police brutality and systemic racism faced by people of color here the US to the struggles against Western Imperialism in Yemen and the Philippines. From the calls to action given by the likes of Malcolm X, Angela Davis, and Martin Luther King, to the chants of the Philippine National Democratic Movement, “makibaka! wag matakot!” (“Dare to struggle! Do not be afraid!”)
Let us continue to fight! In his passionate 1968 speech, “We Shall Overcome,” just 4 days before his assassination, MLK says “We shall overcome. Deep in my heart I do believe we shall overcome.
And with this faith we will go out and adjourn the counsels of despair and bring new light into the dark chambers of pessimism and we will be able to rise from the fatigue of despair to the buoyancy of hope. And this will be a great America! We will be the participants in making it so.” He says “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
Let us be the “participants in making it so!”
On Martin Luther King day, 2021, I released this song. In this song I combine beats, melodies, chants, and calls to action from revolutionaries around the world, past and present. Let us never give up fighting for a better and more just tomorrow!
Today, let us celebrate the bold and continued United Struggle against intersecting systems of oppression rooted in racism, colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism! From the Civil Rights Era of the 60s, to the Black Lives Matter Movement of today, from the struggles against police brutality and systemic racism faced by people of color here the US to the struggles against Western Imperialism in Yemen and the Philippines. From the calls to action given by the likes of Malcolm X, Angela Davis, and Martin Luther King, to the chants of the Philippine National Democratic Movement, “makibaka! wag matakot!” (“Dare to struggle! Do not be afraid!”)
Let us continue to fight! In his passionate 1968 speech, “We Shall Overcome,” just 4 days before his assassination, MLK says “We shall overcome. Deep in my heart I do believe we shall overcome.
And with this faith we will go out and adjourn the counsels of despair and bring new light into the dark chambers of pessimism and we will be able to rise from the fatigue of despair to the buoyancy of hope. And this will be a great America! We will be the participants in making it so.” He says “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
Let us be the “participants in making it so!”
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