reform and rev/ Golden 50's
by Rakesh Bhandari
23 January 2002 01:36 UTC
>CB: Tax the rich ! Return to the Golden Age of the Early 50's !
>Rooseveltian reforms resulted in a 90% tax rate for the highest
>incomes in the U.S. and an economic golden age.
A black man who wants to return to the golden age of the 50s? I have
long feared Charles that you are someone's caricature of a black
bolshevik.
^^^^^^^^
CB: Rakesh, I think your historical analysis is a bit upside down here. The 50's were
the period of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott, Ella Baker, MLKing's rise,
The Brown vs Bd of Ed. Supreme Court victory, the Civil Rights Movement. Black people
were winning victories in the 50's compared with other periods. If we could get a
Black movement today like that of the 50's , we'd be doing good ( see below)
We Bolsheviks were having trouble with HUAC and McCarthyism.
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Tuesday, January 22, 2002
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Contact: Melissa Jameson 212-228-0450
Melissa Muro 917-400-9052
55 Arrested at US Mission to the UN Urging Changes in
U.S. Foreign Policy
Fifty-five people were arrested today on the steps of
the U.S. Mission to the United Nations this morning as
they called for a change in US foreign policy that
would continue the legacy of peacemaking begun by Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. In the spirit of King's
anti-war stance, the men and women occupied the steps
of the mission demanding an end to the war in
Afghanistan and renouncing any expansion of the war.
Tuesday's act of nonviolent civil disobedience was the
culmination of a four-day series of presentations and
training reflecting on the life of Dr. King.
"Dr. King's dream of a just society has yet to be
realized. As King said, 'The greatest purveyor of
violence is my own country,' said Ceylon Mooney
of Memphis, TN, one of those arrested today. "As I and
many others have seen, this is still true, and our
collective conscience calls us to confront not only
the violence committed on behalf of Americans, but
also the institutions committing those acts."
Joining the group on Tuesday morning were Amber and
Ryan Amundson, widow and brother of Craig Scott
Amundson, who was killed on September 11 in the
attack on the Pentagon.
"Bush has said that the 'war on terrorism' requires
sacrifice from the American people. The nonviolent
protest in front of the U.S. Mission to the
UN is really a frontline battle of the war on
terrorism, and the people who were arrested are
showing the sacrifices needed to lead to a true
victory against all forms of terror," said Amundson.
The protest was sponsored by War Resisters League
(www.warresisters.org),
Voices in the Wilderness (www.nonviolence.org/vitw/)
and Kairos Community/ALC.
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