MLK Day: Movement is KING!
The Peoples First 100 Days declares:
the South will not be erased!
January 21, 2013 MLK Day is also the Inauguration for President Obama’s second term. The day represents an incredible opportunity to honor the legacy of southern freedom movement history and our achievements by joining together across the South to elevate our communities’ demands for freedom TODAY.
Together, as part of the People’s First 100 Days campaign in the South, over 15 organizations are coordinating events and street team actions to put the Movement back into MLK Day.
We lift up our people’s visions for justice under the principle: Nobody is free until everybody is free.
Download the MLK Day Action Packet [PDF]
Let’s bring our people out to the street on MLK Day! We are making history in 2013 by working across so many communities to build our combined force for power through the Southern Freedom Movement. Videos of MLK Day Actions and interviews will be live streamed and compiled to amplify Southern voices on the Peoples 100 TV.
12 Action sites Across the South!
- Jacksonville, FL: The New Jim Crow Movement Coalition, SCLC, and the Marrissa Alexander Defense Committee gathered over 50 interviews during the parade and local events.
- Atlanta, GA: Project South, the Georgia Citizens’ Coalition on Hunger, Georgia Human Rights Union, SONG, Pal’s Lounge, Women Watch Afrika, and volunteers facilitated at the annual Bayard Rustin/Audre Lorde breakfast, marched in the 2013 King Day parade, and concluded the action-packed day with a live music World Party at Pal’s Lounge on Auburn Ave where King was born.
- Charleston, SC: Through a joint action led by SONG, Alternate ROOTS, local churches and volunteers, 50 people “washed away history that erases us” by washing down the walls of the Confederate Museum, and read a collective statement.
- Dothan, AL: The Ordinary People’s Society (TOPS) kicked off their MLK Day of action with a rally, a breakfast, an early morning community prayer, and a march that concluded with community church service on Monday afternoon, while gathering interviews throughout the weekend.
- Greensboro, NC: Rocking the streets of Greensboro for queer liberation and racial and economic justice, SONG marched with the Cakalack Thunder Marching Band and Jobs for Justice during the Greensboro MLK Day Parade.
- Whitesburg, KY: Noting the reference of the Appalachian community twice in President Obama’s speech, an Appalshop leader gathered interviews door to door from friend and local folks.
- Asheville, NC: Local community members and organizers with the Center for Participatory Change conducted video interviews during their local King Day parade.
- San Antonio, TX: Southwest Workers Union kicked off King Day 2013, Not Just A Dream: Movement is King as a part of the Dream Week. Community members wrote letters to the president around the topic of immigration and education justice, and youth collected interviews during one of the largest marches in the country.
- Little Rock, AR: Strengthening movement roots in Arkansas, Reverend Maxine Allen of The Women’s Project participated in an event with Philander Smith students over the weekend and gave a social justice sermon at a service on Monday.
- Knoxville, TN: On January 21, 2013, United Campus Workers (UCW)/CWA Local 3865 participated in the annual MLK Memorial Parade and hosted its own annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Banquet.
- Tuscaloosa, AL: Southern Movement Assembly members with the Peoples First 100 Days joined with SOMOS Tuscaloosa marching in the MLK day Parade.
Add your community’s voice to the Southern Freedom Movement!
Download the MLK Day Action Packet [PDF]
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Gather a Street Team to record video interviews.
Host an action.
Contact us at peoples100@southtosouth.org
to get an action started or join an existing one!
