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18 Jan, 10 tweets, 4 min read
1/ Here's four things I hope everyone will connect with to better understand MLK:
– His concerns about white moderates
– Not just his dream but his nightmare
– Not just anti-racism but interconnectedness and anti-oppression
– Not just persuasion but organizing disruptive action
2/ Here is King on white moderates: africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/L…
3/ Here is King talking about realism and not just his dream but his nightmare: theroot.com/dr-martin-luth…
4/ Here is King's work for multi-racial, multi-issue organizing and action, seeing the deep interconnectedness of many issues: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_Peop…

I hope you'll check out the revived of the Poor People's Campaign @UniteThePoor: poorpeoplescampaign.org/about/
5/ And I hope that you'll consider how King might approach BLM, and how King's words should not be misused to oppose disruption or for respectability politics:
6/ And I hope you'll consider how King saw economic exploitation and might see our economic issues today: nytimes.com/2021/01/18/opi…
7/ King's "Dream" speech was fantastic, but is only a part of his rich, nuanced views.

Don't accept (or make!) portrayals that are watered down, superficial, or only rosy.

Please take time to explore, reconnect with the MLK who was a radical, who became more radical over time.
8/ also highly recommend this from @JennMJacksonPhD teenvogue.com/story/mlk-more…
9/ and AOC offered this great reading list:
10/ and this from Arundhati Roy in 2003, worth considering MLK as the US’s endless wars continue... outlookindia.com/website/story/…

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16 quarts of mushroom barley soup for us and friends.

(Not pictured: quart 17, already eaten)
We used this recipe with some modifications.

– added the barley at the end, not separately
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RT if you think that we shouldn't be throwing out usable doses of the vaccine.
In the face of mass death and mass suffering, every wasted dose is a policy failure, a leadership failure, a moral failure.
Institutions are throwing out doses because they're rigidly sticking to their current eligibility recommendations, because they're failing to maintain the cold chain.

There should be mandatory, transparent reporting of every single wasted dose.
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The number of new cases each day keeps surpassing prior all-time highs.

The number of deaths each day keeps surpassing prior all-time highs.

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People are facing evictions.
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We're vaccinating too slow.

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High infection rates enable mutations. 2/
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