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| Naresh -- In just a few hours, President Obama will be speaking from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to mark the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's famed speech at the March on Washington. Trust me, you don't want to miss this. Attend our interactive livestream of the President's speech -- starting at 2:45 p.m. Eastern Time -- and join the national discussion today. Over the next few months, we're going to have many fights on the issues you and I care so much about. Today's anniversary reminds me that anything worth having has never come easy -- real change comes when the people who want it come together to make it a reality. That's why Organizing for Action is here, after all. Make sure you don't miss President Obama's remarks -- log on for the interactive livestream at 2:45 p.m. Eastern Time: http://my.barackobama.com/MLK-at-50-Livestream Thanks, Abby Abby Witt Deputy National Director of Issue Campaigns Organizing for Action |
Save Dissent to Save Democracy THE rising instances of physical violence and threats against political opponents and the inability to accept dissent must raise huge concerns amongst all of us who see democracy as perhaps the really stellar achievement since Independence. AAP’s attack on BJP headquarters and acts of arson committed under the very noses of their elite leadership; the attacks on Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia in Gujarat in the last two days; the recent manhandling of the caretaker of journalist Siddharth Varadarajan’s house by some garden variety thugs; and the violence and threats meted out regularly to their political opponents by political parties is surely deplorable and condemnable. This is a fatally flawed trend which will destroy the very foundations of our democratic institutions if not pushed back with all the strength and condemnation that the civil society can mobilise. Replaying the past To begin with, it must be clarified that we should ...
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