MARKING MLK DAY – 15TH JANUARY

Dear friends, colleagues and supporters,

‘PEACE ON EARTH’

With the Vietnam war at its height, the support of Dr. King and his wife Coretta Scott King for the anti-Vietnam war movement was becoming ever more vocal. It was in this context that he delivered what proved to be his last sermon on 24th December 1967.

We are sharing the video of our BHM event at St. John’s Church Waterloo, in London, where we were honoured to have actors Adjoa Andoh and Paterson Joseph memorably perform Dr. King’s final Christmas Sermon.

We thank them both for making it a very special event.

MLK’s LEGACY – WAR AS A METAPHOR FOR CLIMATE CHANGE?

MLK’s ‘triple evils’ analysis on the interconnected nature of economic exploitation, racism and militarism – has become central to our Transform Defence work on the global military: its often unreported emissions and impact on climate change and the insane levels of military spending ($2.2 trillion p/a  and rising) set against broken climate finance promises for climate vulnerable nations in the global south.

We blog here that it’s not hard to see how Dr. King’s analysis of war waged by rich nations on the poor – be it military, economic or rooted in racism – can also be read as a contemporary metaphor for climate change.

SHOW RACISM THE RED CARD & MLK DAY

We were delighted when UK charity Show Racism the Red Card kindly invited us to write a blog for teachers and educators about our MLK Global project. It is the UK’s leading educational anti-racism charity and its online education hub recently reach a significant milestone in engaging one million UK pupils during its first year of operation.

On this day, we remember Dr. King.

Deb, Ho-Chih, Dionne & Kevin.