Re: on privatization and accountability

[ABurke5054@aol.com]

If you want to install yourself as the benign Lenin  of Oakland, come right 
out and say so.  Don't try to  recruit Martin Luther King for that role.  He 
thought that loony  communists were as much a nuisance as loony capitalists and 
the notion that the  parents, students, and teachers of Oakland are going to 
run its "corporations"  for the benefit of the poor and the public schools is 
as loony as it gets.
 
Art
 
In a message dated 5/23/2006 1:30:04 PM Pacific Standard Time,  
Cbgord@aol.com writes:

P.S. For those on this list who would like to learn more about  King's core 
messages and values, here is an article by Vincent  Harding, a veteran of and 
scholar on the Civil Rights movement. It's an  antidote to the convenient, 
pacifying image fed to us on on King's  birthday each year. Harding's article, 
written on the eve of invasion of  Iraq, clears up the confusion some have (or 
try to encourage) about  King's nonviolence: it is not simply the absence of 
violence, but a  revolutionary force that came to include King's plan for massive 
civil  disobedience to disrupt Washington, D.C. and other cities in a 
campaign to end  poverty in the U.S.  That effort, the Poor People's Campaign, was to 
 begin in May 1968, but in April King was murdered.