Ku Meredith Aby-Keirstead, April 5, 2019
Dina April 4, 1967, Dr. King dikirimkeun ucapan anti perang "Beyond Vietnam" na di Garéja Riverside di New York City. Anjeunna bakal tragis rajapati persis sataun saterusna, dina balkon Lorraine Motel di Memphis, Tennesse.
Dina April 4, 1949, Traktat Atlantik Kalér disaluyuan nyirian lahirna satru militér katelah NATO.
Program mimiti dina léngkah Capitol ku lagu-lagu ku Sister Brigid McDonald, kecap bubuka ku Sue Ann Martinson sareng Mel Reeves, sauran belah ku Veterans for Peace, sareng eulogy kanggo Reverend King ku Bishop Richard D. Howell Jr. tina Temple Shiloh.
Martinson, anggota Awewe Ngalawan Militér Madness, muka acara: "Martin Luther King nyebut Viétnam jadi gejala bahya langkung seueur sumanget Amérika. Dinten ieu kami gaduh gejala sejen, Venezuela. Anjeunna diprediksi yen urang bakal marching sareng ngadatangan unjuk rasa tanpa tungtungna iwal parobahan anu signifikan dina kahirupan sareng kawijakan Amérika anu lumangsung; ayeuna kami ngagaduhan perang henteu aya watesna sareng bisi Vénézuéla usaha kudéta tentang kalayan ancaman perang ". Manehna nambihan," Kami nuju masihan dua silences ayeuna, ayeuna teh dijempékeun dina ucapan 'Cicih Vietnam' sareng anti-militarismis, pro -peace pesen di program formal ngeunaan Dr. King sapertos gaduh on Martin Luther King Day. Nu sejenna teh tiiseun sabudeureun lingkup basa AS / NATO di sakuliah dunya. "
Jero di Capunda rotunda balaréa ngupingkeun dua panyambung utama: University of Minnesota Professor August Nimtz dina warisan hak sipil ti Martin Luther King Jr., sareng Mayor (Ret.) Todd E. Pierce dina NATO.
Penguru di sapanjang programna ogé maca maca "I Have Dream" sareng "Cicih Vietnam" pidato ku murid dasar SD jeung SMA.
Acara ieu disponsoran ku Minnesota Koalisi Aksi Peace, Veterans kanggo Peace Bab 27 sareng Awewe Ngalawan Madness Militer.
