Martin Luther King, Presente!

If you can’t make it to Memphis this weekend, Martin Luther King is just a click – or short subway ride – away:

• Four brief video clips featuring the civil rights leader are now available online from the AFL-CIO. Included are a 10-minute version of “I Am A Man” which tells the story of the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike. King talks about the dignity of labor in the 2-minute “Support for Sanitation Workers” clip, the right to protest in the 1-minute “Somewhere I Read” and offers powerfully prophetic words the day before his assassination in the 39-second “I See The Promised Land” clip.
• The new art exhibit in the AFL-CIO lobby commemorates the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike, King’s pivotal role in it and the enduring links between the labor and civil rights movements. The exhibit features photos, banners and quotes-from Dr. King and from the sanitation workers.
• The DC Labor FilmFest will present the documentary “At the River I Stand” next Friday, January 25 at noon in the AFL-CIO’s Gompers Room, introduced by Bill Lucy, AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer and CBTU President.
• Save the date for a March 31 brown bag discussion and book-signing at 12:30P at the AFL-CIO with Mike Honey, author of Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign.