New entry in the common book today.
> Midnight is the hour when men desperately seek to obey the eleventh commandment, “Thou shalt not get caught.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr., “A Knock at Midnight”
#quotes #mlkjr #blackhistorymonth
https://commonbook.davidamoswrites.com/notes/quotes/the-ethic-of-midnight/
“Peace is what the powerful ask for when they don’t want to be interrupted,” Matt Moberg wrote in a short piece that went viral on social media, adding: “Unity that refuses to name violence is just loyalty to the ones holding the weapons.”
#minneapolis #minnesota #ice #MLKjr #NegativePeace #justice #CorporateCowardice
Americans and MLK Jr. quotes
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1686711/americans-and-mlk-jr-quotes
From my blog, an amazing music centered experience. A single .XM track I leeched from a LAN party or some such decades ago, a recent discovery "hidden" in that same file, resulting with a connection with the artist.
This is one of those things that reminds me that the world isn't all shit.
Late in the day, but:
Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story
https://archive.org/details/ms_for_comic/mode/2up
#mlkjr
#Remembering #MLKJr #Injustice anywhere is a threat to #Justice #everywhere
US political climate spurs efforts to reclaim the MLK holiday — Communities across the U.S. held parades, panels and service projects for the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/us-political-climate-spurs-efforts-reclaim-mlk-holiday-129339656
#MLKJr
Today we remember MLK Jr’s warnings before his assassination. It was not the Klansmen he warned about, but the moderate who stays complacent.
Our Greatest Stumbling Block
https://www.rootschangemedia.com/facesofracism3/
#mlkjr #uspol #ushistory #CivilRights #activism #resist #democrats
Newly Unveiled Photos of #MLKJr. Show Depth of #NYPD’s #Surveillance
By Joshua Clark Davis
Nov 29, 2025
Excerpt: "Just as Donald Trump demonizes leftist organizers today as #DomesticTerrorists, both federal officials and local police in the South and North condemned civil rights activists as #rioters and #insurrectionists. Just as Trump falsely disparaged Zohran Mamdani as a communist in recent months (before opting not to repeat the charges in a surprisingly friendly meeting with the mayor-elect in the Oval Office), Southern officials slandered King as a communist. And just as Trump’s Justice Department is indicting his political enemies on legally specious mortgage fraud charges, state officials in #Alabama unsuccessfully indicted King on #felony criminal charges for income tax perjury in 1960.
"But the NYPD — nor any other local police department — did not need to wait for encouragement from the feds to spy on King and his allies. A common misperception is that local police were content with physically assaulting protesters while leaving the sophisticated work of surveillance and slander to Hoover’s FBI. But police were far more experienced in spying on and sabotaging activists than we have acknowledged — so much so that the FBI’s notorious #COINTELPRO program against '#BlackExtremists,' launched in August 1967, should be recognized for federalizing efforts that local police departments had already undertaken to disrupt the #CivilRightsMovement."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/29/mlk-nypd-surveillance-photos/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/85j37
#MartinLutherKingJr #BlackHistory #ACAB #CivilRights #AmericanHistory
Something different this year was a discussion with the co-founders group out of NH that does humanitarian relief work in Ukraine — Common Man for Ukraine. Pretty amazing stuff actually. https://commonmanforukraine.org/
#MLKJr #Ukraine #GoodNews
I don't know if service is part of Martin Luther King Jr. celebrations elsewhere in the US or not. In Philadelphia, it's big — tens of thousands of people giving back in Philadelphia and around the region. We participated in a number of activities today. The coordinator is a nonprofit, Global Citizen.*
https://mlkdayofservice.org/
Today is Martin Luther King Jr day, and it's hard to think of a better way to celebrate the man's life and work than reading his words.
You can find many of them here, thanks to Stanford's King Papers Publications project.
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/about-papers-project/king-papers-publications
Martin Luther King Jr knew what was important, what mattered and what it was like to sacrifice for justice & to strive to make the world a better, more just & humane place.
He gave us so much.
Let's not let him down - again.
Happy that the #MLKDay events in #SantaBarbara today had a strong turn out (and a strong presence from fellow #FreeMethodist people).
I suddenly feel like reading this book.
The Radical King
By Martin Luther King, Jr.
Edited & introduced by Cornel West
