All Views Articles for 2019-01-21

Monday, January 21, 2019
US President Donald Trump participates in a roundtable discussion at the US Border Patrol Station in McAllen, Texas, US, January 10, 2019 (Photo: Leah Millis/Reuters) Rachel Gilmer
Trump's Shutdown Is a Historic Opportunity for Real Change
Now, as support for Trump is waning, leftists need to stop 'playing-it-safe' and present a new vision for this country
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'The closure of General Motors’ Oshawa plant should serve as a game-changer." (Photo: Screenshot) Linda McQuaig
Trudeau Should Consider Buying GM and Making Electric Cars
The global auto industry is in flux, with the world expected to transition to the electric car over the next few decades
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"In this difficult moment, we can let Dr. King rise in us, if we dare, by daring to rise to the occasion, and becoming the people of active nonviolence he hoped for." (Photo: AP/Charles Kelly, File) Rev. John Dear
The Resurrection of Dr. King
From Jesus to Dr. King, those who give their lives in the nonviolent struggle for justice, disarmament and peace, even though they appear to fail, bear tremendous good fruit in the long haul
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Katie Halper
The 11 Most Anti-Capitalist Quotes from Martin Luther King Jr.
The truth is, most politicians would distance themselves from Dr. King's stunning (and spot on) indictments of capitalism.
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Part of King’s Beyond Vietnam speech was the idea that moral conviction should not be limited by race, class or nationality. That solidarity should even extend to the supposed enemy. (Photo: AP/Bill Ingraham) Naomi LaChance
What Activists Today Can Learn From MLK’s Bold Anti-War Stance
King, facing public pressure to support the war, set an example for progressives by doing just the opposite
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"The American elite, people like Dick Cheney, had opposed the establishment of Martin Luther King Day, but once it was voted as a Federal holiday, they have attempted to defang it."(Photo: Wikimedia Commons) Juan Cole
Why Martin Luther King, Jr., Would Support Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
We aren’t typically exposed on television to King’s anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism, and anti-war message
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Jeff Cohen
The System’s Falling Apart: Were the Dogmatic Marxists Right After All?
With our political system in lockdown and our natural world under global threat, we need to look—as some have argued for decades—"beyond capitalism"
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"Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy and transform our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood." (Photo: Screenshot) Dr. Sanjeev K. Sriram
Dr. King Would Want Us to Fight for Medicare For All
Now is the time for Medicare For All and for health care to be a basic human right regardless of where you live, what you earn, or what you look like
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Jeff Bezos built his business with the extraordinary advantage of minimally-taxed sales on Amazon to offer discounts while undercutting competitors, pushing many of them out of business. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Paul Buchheit
Capitalist-Style Wealth Gap: 1 Tech Guy = 1,000,000 Teachers
As Charles Koch said, "I want my fair share and that's all of it."
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"I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go up to the mountain, and I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.”(Photo: Democracy Now!) Peter Dreier
Martin Luther King Was a Radical, Not a Saint
“For years I labored with the idea of reforming the existing institutions of society, a little change here, a little change there. Now I feel quite differently. I think you’ve got to have a reconstruction of the entire society, a revolution of values.”
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Protesters hold signs demanding economic justice. Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Chuck Collins
An MLK Day Reflection: The Racial Wealth Gap Is Killing the Middle Class
Ninety years out from Dr. King's birth, the typical white family had 41 times more wealth than the typical Black family
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