1.19.2009

A call to action

Honoring Martin Luther King

Kevin Alexander Gray celebrates Martin Luther King Day by calling for an American withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan as well as a disinvestment campaign targeting Israel.

So, this year we should honor King in an active sense. We should commit ourselves to organize against the American policy of violence and empire. The anti-war movement should apply pressure on Obama to withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan. And, just as important, particularly amid the horror that has been visited on the people of Gaza; a broader peace movement must also build real economic and political pressure against Israel's immoral and criminal acts against the Palestinians. This King Day should mark the beginning of an organized push for American divestment from Israel.

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