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Tags: green collar jobs, Martin Luther King, The Dream Reborn Conference
Tags: green collar jobs, Martin Luther King, The Dream Reborn Conference
The Green Jobs movement has great potential to reduce our carbon emissions and create millions of new environmentally related jobs, yet it also has an even greater potential to unite Americans once again around a progressive, social advancement. Many are looking at the creation of nationwide green jobs as the "New Civil Rights Movement."
The first civil rights movement in America brought people of all mixes together to help African-Americans fight racial oppression, and the Green Jobs movement is now bringing together people, groups, and even industry together to fight environmental oppression of many of our citizens, especially the low-income, low opportunity citizens. We are now at a moment when we all need to come together to help our future generations to realize a prosperous and green future.
Memphis Conference: King's Legacy Grows Green
That brings me to an upcoming conference that I'm extremely excited about attending. The Dream Reborn in Memphis, TN is being held on the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination and is bringing people together from all over the country to reignite MLK's "dream." It is going to be a groundbreaking event in which community leaders of our generation will gather to find solutions towards making our future more socially equal and creating a "New Deal" type, green economy that will, as Van Jones says, "Lift All Boats!" For me, it's greatly inspiring to see Americans at last converging to address two challenges: economic and social justice in America and environmental destruction of our planet.
The Dream Reborn is going to reignite the dream of one of the greatest visionaries in history. MLK in his I Have a Dream speech said, "We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy." This is the position we are facing today, America must be urgent and take action Now in order to counteract the many fierce problems that our outdated, pollutive industries have brought about.
The Dream Reborn is going to serve as the innovative forum that not only will help bring together Americans into a tight knit community to serve for the common good of us all, but it will also help create new dreams based on visions of our greatest leaders. By taking action Now and working Together, we will once again create a movement that can only make us a better nation. I hope to see you there!
The first civil rights movement in America brought people of all mixes together to help African-Americans fight racial oppression, and the Green Jobs movement is now bringing together people, groups, and even industry together to fight environmental oppression of many of our citizens, especially the low-income, low opportunity citizens. We are now at a moment when we all need to come together to help our future generations to realize a prosperous and green future.
Memphis Conference: King's Legacy Grows Green
That brings me to an upcoming conference that I'm extremely excited about attending. The Dream Reborn in Memphis, TN is being held on the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination and is bringing people together from all over the country to reignite MLK's "dream." It is going to be a groundbreaking event in which community leaders of our generation will gather to find solutions towards making our future more socially equal and creating a "New Deal" type, green economy that will, as Van Jones says, "Lift All Boats!" For me, it's greatly inspiring to see Americans at last converging to address two challenges: economic and social justice in America and environmental destruction of our planet.
The Dream Reborn is going to reignite the dream of one of the greatest visionaries in history. MLK in his I Have a Dream speech said, "We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy." This is the position we are facing today, America must be urgent and take action Now in order to counteract the many fierce problems that our outdated, pollutive industries have brought about.
The Dream Reborn is going to serve as the innovative forum that not only will help bring together Americans into a tight knit community to serve for the common good of us all, but it will also help create new dreams based on visions of our greatest leaders. By taking action Now and working Together, we will once again create a movement that can only make us a better nation. I hope to see you there!
