China threatens drama if Obama meets Lama

Wisdom Quarterly; NBC News

Pres. Obama previously met with the Dalai Lama in the Map Room of the White House on July 16, 2011 (Pete Souza/The White House/file).

 

Dalai Lama in D.C. (washingtonpost.com)

BEIJING, China - A planned meeting between Pres. Barack Obama and the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama [will] "seriously damage" U.S. relations with China, a Chinese Foreign Ministry official said Friday [Feb. 21, 2014].

The White House National Security Council said Obama would meet the Dalai Lama, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, at the White House on Friday in a show of concern about China's human rights practices.

Getting up the Great Wall of China is like arguing with a communist dictatorship.

  

Free Tibet! China out of Tibet! (AJ)

China meanwhile, calls the Dalai Lama a "wolf in sheep's clothing" who seeks to use violent methods to [re-]establish an independent Tibet. The Dalai Lama, who fled to India after a failed uprising in 1959 [to resist a massive Chinese invasion, occupation, and takeover], maintains he only wants genuine autonomy for Tibet and denies advocating violence.

 

"The United States' arrangement for its leader to meet the Dalai would be a gross interference in China's internal affairs and is a serious violation of the norms of international relations," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in a statement. More

Martin Luther King Jr. in his own words (video)

Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; Amy Goodman, DemocracyNow.org

Historian on the March on Washington and the Kennedys’ aversion to MLK’s struggle

 

MLK Jr., born Michael in 1929, was assassinated at age 39 on April 4, 1968 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was a Protestant minister, Ph.D., Nobel laureate, and cheated on his wife rather being the saint many attempt to portray him as. While he is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader, Dr. King was also a fierce critic of military-industrial U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War as well as U.S. genocides in Laos and Cambodia. He also championed the cause of the poor and organized the Poor People’s Campaign to address issues of economic justice. Let us listen to his "Beyond Vietnam" speech, delivered at New York City’s Riverside Church on April 4, 1967, as well as his last speech, "I Have Been to the Mountain Top," which he gave on April 3, 1968, the night before [the government] assassinated him.

 

Malcolm X Day 2015

(Daily Kos) Today (Jan. 20th), is the federal holiday honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We now have an entire generation who has grown up in the United States with this holiday... But there has been a lot of racist resistance to it. There is a government sponsored Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service, which mentions, "After a long struggle, legislation was signed in 1983 creating a federal holiday marking the birthday" though his actual birth date was Jan 15, 1929.