I've noted several times before that Goldie Hawn is one
of my favorite actresses. Yes, I love OVERBOARD. Who doesn't? But
that's not even my all time favorite Goldie Hawn film.
My
favorite has to be PRIVATE BENJAMIN. I love that movie. My kids will
tell you that I can quote the whole thing. (They will also tell you
that they don't like it when I do that.) After that? Honestly,
PROTOCOL. It's a favorite of mine. I love it. I loved it when I was a
kid, I loved it now. How can you not love her character Sunny? When
she shows up at the White House with the boom box and frisbee? "You
said it was a party!" Or when she explains she's never been out of the
US except for "Canada but that doesn't count because it's attached." I
love Sunny. She's so sweet and untouched by meanness. But do her (or
the country) wrong and she's going to stand up real quick. And the cast
is so very good in that (including Jean Smart and Chris Sarandon).
After that?
So those are my top two.
I
guess my next one would be HOUSE SITTER. I love that one too. Gwen's a
great character and she and Steve Martin made a great team. I love it
when she tells him his problem is "you stink at lying." I love how Gwen
creates her own world.
So that's my top three.
Number
four may throw some, sorry. CRISS-CROSS. Her character's son Chris is
really the main character but it's such a great movie and she's so
great in it. I remember seeing that during the summer of Goldie. We
got three excellent films that summer -- HOUSE SITTER and CRISS-CROSS
and . . .
DEATH BECOMES
HER. Number five. I love that film and Goldie makes it. It doesn't
work without her. Meryl doesn't have the star power to carry it or to
make you care. It would be so pedestrian and tired without Goldie. She
comes in and ass zip to it. She also out acts Meryl. I would love to
see some extras on that. Like the original ending or some scenes with
Tracey Ullman (Tracey's whole part was cut but if you watch the original
trailer, there's a second or two of her in it). Goldie's brilliant and
I laugh every time. She's just so amazing.
So
number six would be . . . I'm going with TOWN AND COUNTRY. It's got
problems, that film does. That said, Goldie is amazing in it. She's
the only one who fully survives it. Diane Keaton tries but you can tell
her character's story has changed. And they changed it in reshoot and
that undercuts her other scenes that were shot originally.
FIRST
WIVES CLUB would be seven. Goldie is the reason. I don't think they
gave Diane enough in that film. I felt sorry for her character the
first time I saw the film and that's remained throughout the years.
Bette overacts as she always does. And she's trying to do drama too so
that doesn't work. Goldie steals the show and it's her moments we
remember.
FOUL PLAY would be next. I can watch that over and over and have.
Number
nine? CACTUS FLOWER -- which I just watched last night! I've got that
on AMAZON in "MY STUFF" (the folder for the films you've bought) and I
watch it all the time. She's wonderful in it and you may not get how
wonderful she is in it unless you talk to C.I. I love Goldie in it but I
watched with C.I. a few years ago and we were snacking and talking --
we've seen it hundreds of times -- and she started talking about how
Goldie handles this scene and then that scene and then the reality that
the character was not that loveable in the play (Brenda Vaccaro played
her on Broadway) and all the ways in which Goldie reinvents the
character. It really is amazing because you're rooting for Goldie's
character -- a woman who is sleeping with a dentist only because he's
married. He told her he was married and she thinks that makes him
honest. With another actress, the audience wouldn't have rooted for her
but another actress wouldn't have made the choices Goldie did in terms
of the portrayal. It really is a masterful performance.
Number
ten? I'm going to have to go with SHAMPOO. Her Jill is the moral
center of the film. And she should have gotten another Oscar for this
picture. She breaks your heart when she faces the truth about her
boyfriend (Warren Beatty) and tells him "Obviously, there were others."
Obviously. "How many?" He wants to know why she's asking and she
tells him that she just doesn't want them looking at her and her not
knowing.
Now
those are my ten favorites. They are not my only favorites. I also
love WILDCATS and THE DUCHESS AND THE DIRTWATER FOX and BEST FRIENDS and
DECEIVED and SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES and EVERYONE SAYS I LOVE YOU and
SNATCHED and . . .
The
'Fool's Gold' actress believes her mom was unfairly seen as "difficult
and complicated" because she was never afraid to give her opinions and
expressed her admiration for the 'Cactus Flower' star for having the
courage to start producing her own movies.
Speaking
to Kelly Ripa on her 'Let's Talk Off Camera' podcast, Kate said: "She
had to really fight for a lot of these movies to be made [and] was seen
by a lot of people as difficult and complicated because she had a point
of view.
"She
decided to tell people that told her to stay in her lane to go
[expletive] themselves and basically started producing her own movies,
which wasn't happening at the time."
Kate can't help but admire her mom's "strength" and "conviction".
I admire Kate's mother too. Goldie started producing
with PRIVATE BENJAMIN. She also produced PROTOCOL, WILDCATS, DECEIVED
and CRISSCROSS as well as MY BLUE HEAVEN and SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT.
There's
one more film. And that's the one where some people attacked her.
SWING SHIFT. The film has its moments but it's a mess and that's not
Goldie's fault. It flopped and it flopped because of Jonathan Demme who
only has one focused film to his credit: SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. There
he had to follow Ted Talley's script to the letter. On his other films,
he loses interest quickly in the main characters. That's true of all
of them including SOMETHING WILD. Goldie was the producer. He was the
director. He finished his cut of the film and WARNER BROTHERS was
appalled -- as they should have been. I've seen his cut. No one would
have paid for that mess. We wanted a Goldie Hawn film and she's a
supporting character. WARNER BROS was furious. They ordered reshoots,
which Demme refused to do. The reshoots saved the film. It's
watchable. But with a real director it would have been better. And
Demme spent the rest of his life trashing Goldie. She's not the
studio. She agreed with them -- and go see his version and you will as
well.
But a bunch of
sexists have tried to rewrite history and act as though WARNER BROTHERS
loved it. They did not. They would not authorize money for another
half of hour of screen time to be filmed if they loved the movie.
Sexist fan boys have blamed Goldie. WARNER BROTHERS hated the film on
the screen. "But Christine Lahti is so great in it!" She's still good
in it but she wasn't before the film, she wasn't during the film, and
she wasn't after the film a star. She couldn't sell tickets at any
point in her career and WARNER BROTHERS didn't spend $15 million in 1983
for an 'art' film. They wanted a hit and they went with Goldie because
she was their best chance of it. When they saw the film they were
shocked and angry because it was not a film starring Goldie Hawn.
CRAPAPEDIA says:
Demme
had the phrase "A Jonathan Demme Film" removed from the credits and
promotional materials, and screenwriter Nancy Dowd requested to be
credited under the pseudonym "Rob Morton."[1]
I
ran that by C.I. who said, "So what does that mean? Screenwriter Nancy
Dowd has never been happy. She's not supportive of women and never has
been. But let's be clear, that she's got three writing credits with
Morton as the name on screen. SLAP SHOT she puts her name to -- despite
it being highly homophobic and it was homophobic for the 70s. All she
put her own name to was SLAP SHOT, FTA -- a documentary of Jane Fonda's
variety shows for the troops -- and COMING HOME. With the last one, she
was rewritten by two men and highly indignant over that. She recycled
that plot -- she only got story credit on COMING HOME -- for SWING
SHIFT. She hasn't had much of a career and regularly attacked actresses
for not letting her direct. Newsflash, Nancy, studios could hire you.
The best an actress could do was put a word in for you with a studio.
She's a horror and I should disclose that I'm friends with Jane and I'm
friends with Lou Adler and Nancy's a horror. She's worked with both and
I know the stories. The men who want to attack Goldie can try to hide behind Nancy all they want,
hide behind her skirt to justify the attacks on Goldie. But there on
shaky ground with anyone who knows Nancy and her life-long
incompetence."
"Iraq snapshot" (THE COMMON ILLS):
Tuesday, March 30, 2023. The US Senate votes in favor of repealing the
AUMF, Senators Patty Murray, Jon Tester and Sherrod Brown want
accountability on the VA electronic record program, Mother Tucker
Carlson continues to issue jihads against the LGBTQ+ community, and much
more.
The Senate on Wednesday voted to repeal a pair of Authorizations for
Use of Military Force (AUMF) with bipartisan support, taking a step
toward closing the door on the Iraq War 20 years after it started.
Senators voted 66-30 to officially repeal the 1991 authorization for
the Gulf War and the 2002 AUMF that opened the door to the Iraq War the
following March.
At least 20 years. At least? It's not repealed yet.
Mary Claire Jalonick (AP) explains, "If passed by the House, the repeal would not be expected to affect any
current military deployments. But lawmakers in both parties are
increasingly seeking
to claw back congressional powers they have given the White House over
U.S. military strikes and deployments, and some lawmakers who voted for
the Iraq War two decades ago
now say that was a mistake." Yes, now we're waiting on the House of Representatives.
On the topic of Congress, March 17th's "
Iraq snapshot" reported on the latest Senate hearing on the
Electronic
Health
Record Modernization -- an effort that's gone on since Bully Boy Bush
occupied the White House. Yesterday, Senator Patty Murray's office
issued the following:
Murray, Tester, Brown Announce Comprehensive Bill to Overhaul VA’s Electronic Health Record Modernization Program
Senate Veterans’ Affairs and Appropriations Committees leaders
spearhead effort to restructure, enhance, and improve the new EHR
program while increasing oversight on behalf of veterans, VA personnel,
and taxpayers
(Washington, D.C.) – Today, U.S. Senators Patty
Murray (D-WA), a senior member of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs
Committee, Chairman Jon Tester (D-MT), and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) are
spearheading a legislative push to deliver a complete overhaul of the
Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Electronic Health Record
Modernization (EHRM) program.
The Senators will be introducing comprehensive legislation in the
coming days that would require VA to implement a series of EHRM reforms
to better serve veterans, medical personnel, and taxpayers. Their bill
would restructure, enhance, and strengthen the entire EHRM program while
also mandating aggressive reporting to Congress to increase oversight,
accountability, and transparency following a series of challenges with
the system and program, including those found in VA’s recent EHRM Sprint Report and a review
from the Government Accountability Office. This is just the latest in a
series of challenges related to the program which launched in 2017 and
was deployed at the first VA hospital in 2020, during the COVID-19
pandemic.
“I have been clear from the start -- VA cannot continue with its
current EHR system until it works for providers and keeps patients
safe. This legislation will put into law the kind of aggressive
oversight necessary to fix the current system -- that's my first priority,”
said Senator Murray. “Importantly, this set of reforms
will also overhaul the contracts and acquisitions process so that the
issues we’ve seen these last few years can be prevented in the future. I
want to make sure the dedicated providers at VA can do their jobs and
that our veterans are getting the high quality care they have earned and
deserve. Let’s pass the EHR Program RESET Act as soon as possible.”
“It’s clear that the new EHR system is failing veterans,
medical personnel, and taxpayers, and we need aggressive measures to
right this ship and get a better return on investment through this
contract,” said Chairman Tester. “That’s why my
colleagues and I are putting forth comprehensive legislation to increase
transparency and oversight over the new electronic health record
system—holding VA and Oracle Cerner accountable on behalf of the men and
women who risked their lives to defend our country. Veterans deserve
nothing less, and I won’t back down from our continued commitment to
safely deliver them the health care they need and earned.”
“Too many veterans and workers have faced confusion and
unnecessary problems because of VA’s Electronic Health Record rollout.
VA needs a reset, and must meet specific metrics on patient safety,
cost, and VA employee productivity, to improve morale and improve
veterans’ experiences when they turn to the VA for care,” said Senator Brown.
“As VA employees at Chalmers in Columbus continue to work through
issues related to Oracle Cerner’s product, I’ll continue fighting for
them, and for the veterans they serve, to improve this program before
the Department moves forward with any other VA facilities.”
Among its many provisions, the Senators’ legislation would require VA to:
- Develop clear metrics to guide whether and how VA should go forward
with the new EHR at additional VA facilities and require additional
resources to support those facilities;
- Require VA and Oracle Cerner to fix the technology features connected to the health safety and delivery issues found in VA’s March 2023 Sprint Report;
- Not move forward with the new EHR at other VA health facilities
until the data at the existing five facilities demonstrates an ability
to deliver health care to veterans at standards that surpass metrics
using VA’s VistA system or that meet national health operations
standards as determined by the Under Secretary for Health;
- Appoint a lead senior negotiator and leverage other federal agencies
and independent outside experts to offer advice and strategies for
managing aggressive EHR contract negotiations with Oracle Cerner to
protect taxpayers and veterans;
- Develop an alternative “Plan B” strategy for a new EHR in the event
Oracle Cerner will not agree to new contract terms that protect
taxpayers and increase accountability and penalties for poor performance
or when VA data shows it cannot get the technology to work to serve
veterans efficiently and safely;
- Reform major acquisitions at VA to prevent future programs with poor
contracting, oversight, management, and planning from occurring; and
- Require an existing VA Advisory Committee to add health care experts
with proven experience implementing EHR deployments to advise VA
leaders on potential strategies on how to improve VA EHRM’s
implementation based on prior lessons learned in the private and
non-profit health sectors.
The legislation would also require the Department of Defense (DoD) to
report to Congress quarterly on steps it is taking fix DoD information
technology systems, including those which are outdated and are
negatively impacting VA’s ability to deliver health care, benefits, and
other services, including through the new EHR.
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On Iraq, tonight, at 7:00 pm EST,
WBUR
will air ON POINT's latest episode "The American Invasion Through An
Iraqis Eyes." Host Meghna Chakrabarti will be joined by Iraqi
journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad. If your local NPR airs it, great, grab it
off that. I'm sure the episode will go up at
NPR's home page for ON POINT
at some point. I'm noting the Boston station because a friend there is
the one who provided the heads up. I've honestly never listened to ON
POINT and didn't even know about it until the phone call. I will be
listening tonight. And, no, Tom Bowman is not the voice of NPR. Many
people with NPR are offended by
his nonsense last week.
A friend at PBS asked for a link as well. No.
They're
not getting it. Ava and I may rip apart what they wanted promoted this
weekend. Otherwise, we'll just ignore the airing of lies on the public
airwaves.
Last week marked the 20th anniversary of the American invasion of
Iraq, a conflict that was broadcast into our living rooms on our TV sets
in great detail thanks to the many reporters who were allowed to become
“embedded” with U.S. troops as they made their way across the
battlefields of Iraq.
Some commentators today refer to the War in Iraq as a mistake, but
that implies a mere error in judgment. However, that assessment
completely ignores the simple fact that the war was predicated on a
deliberately-false narrative.
Someone at PBS needs to review that editorial with their staff.
The
bodies of the six innocent victims – including three precious children –
killed in the latest school shooting weren’t even cold yet before the
“don’t politicize tragedy” brigade was politicizing tragedy.
On
Monday, a female-to-male transgender man shot his way into Covenant
School – a pre-k through sixth-grade private school affiliated with the
Evangelical Presbyterian Church of America – in Nashville, Tennessee.
The right quickly pounced on the shooter’s transgender identity, using
it to target an entire community that it has already spent the first
three months of this year targeting through state legislatures.
Republican Senator JD Vance tweeted that the
left needed to do some “soul searching” over the Nashville shooting
because the shooter was trans and targeted a Christian school.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, his fellow Republican, blamed the “hormones
like testosterone and medications for mental illness” the shooter may
have been on for the violence, adding that “everyone can stop blaming
guns now.” Tucker Carlson, meanwhile, called transgender people the “natural enemy” of Christianity in a hateful tirade on his Fox News show.
The right is the radicalized threat to public safety, not the LGBTQ community. I have the receipts to prove it.
If
folks like Vance, Greene, and Carlson are concerned about sectarian
violence in the United States – and we all should be, given its ubiquity
in modern America – they ought to take a step back and consider the
rhetoric they use to demonize and dehumanize their political opponents,
the laws they pass targeting them, and the actions they take to harm
them. They ought to also consider the use of violence on their own side.
Just last week, far-right extremists shut down an all-ages drag show in Kentucky with threats of violence knowing children would be present. In New Mexico, a defeated Republican candidate paid four men to shoot up the homes of four elected Democratic officials. Last year, a far-right extremist with ties to QAnon broke into then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home and bludgeoned her husband,
Paul, with a hammer. And then, of course, there was the January 6
insurrection – which was an act of far-right political violence whether
Greene, Vance, or Carlson admit it or not.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson stoked anti-trans fears in the wake of
Monday's Nashville school shooting, warning of what he described as the
rising threat of "trans terrorism."
Carlson cited the deadly shooting
at the Covenant School, a private Christian school, to assert a broad
and unfounded claim that trans people are waging a war against
Christians.
"Why are some trans people so angry, and why do they seem to be mad specifically at traditional Christians?" Carlson asked.
What is FOX "NEWS" to do? Haters in poverty and struggling
watch FOX NEWS over the airwaves -- a low income group which effects
advertising rates. And when FOX NEWS owned FOX entertainment, that was
good for the bottom line. But ABC-DISNEY-et all now owns FOX
entertainment. So the free viewers continue. But advertising alone's
not making it these days. Which is why they started FOX NATION. But,
bit of a problem, the people who signed up for it -- a two week trial or
even for a full month? They're leaving. And they're not leaving
silently. The feedback FOX NATION is getting -- and they do ask for
feedback when you cancel your subscription -- is that there are too many
hateful attacks on LGBTQ+. They're getting comments like that. Some
of the comments include statements such as "I'm not a supporter of gay
people but even for me it's too much with the attacks."
Tucker
brings in the freeloaders, no surprise there. But FOX "NEWS" is going
to have to figure out another way to get people to pay for content
because those who sampled the for-pay service are not impressed with
Mother Tucker.
In the real world, people have to live
with the hate Mother Tucker stokes. QUEER NEWS TONIGHT notes Nebraska
state senator John Fredrickson.
It
takes a lot of courage on the part of the LGBTQ+ community in this
country as elements of the right-wing push for a holy war -- that's the
only term for it -- against LGBTQ+ persons.
Meanwhile,
Josselyn Berry has resigned. Who? The press secretary for Arizona's
governor. Monday the shooting in Tennessee took place. Monday night,
Hobbs Tweeted with a gif of Gena Rowlands in GLORIA, gun in each hand,
adding "Us when we see transphobes." There's not a defense for it. It
was a dumb Tweet. It also wasn't the end of the world. She was right
to resign because she would have been a distraction to the governor's
work. But it's also true that those whining that she was threatening
them -- huh?
People can be stupid. That includes HUFFINGTON POST which (mis)covered this.
Right-wingers, she wasn't talking about you. It was in a thread about
how harmful transphobes on the left are. Oh, right-wingers, did you not
know you could break bread with the left on this topic? I've got an
elderly, one-foot-in-the-grave, self-identified Communist just waiting
to meet you! (See Betty's "Shut your bigoted ass, Dr. Anthony Monteiro"
for more on that fool.) It had nothing to do with the right-wingers,
but you know how they love to play the victim, you know how they're
always playing the victim and always running for a Mommy or Daddy to
tattle because they're just victims (Mother Tucker Carlson projects
victimhood onto others), so they got butt hurt over something that had
nothing to do with them as usual.
Or maybe they were just whoring -- as usual.
Megyn
Kelly knows she has to whore. She's got no career at FOX and no career
at NBC and no one else will touch her so YOUTUBE's all she got.
Remember that when she Tweets:
Thank God for the heroes at . Never ceases to amaze when you see courage like that on these tapes (of them taking out the shooter). Professionalism, bravery, respect for one another, honor.
The heroes?
I believe the police department did a very poor job.
A
friend of the shooter's called the police department and was palmed
off. Hours after the shooting ended, they finally showed up to take
the woman's story. That's not good police work. Now I know Megyn's not
very smart. But, let me repeat, that's not good police work.
Just
reading the first Tweet she received over the phone to the first
point-of-contact with the Nashville police should have been enough. The
statement indicates the person texting has plans to harm someone and is
about to act on that plan.
This should not have been fobbed off.
The Nashville Police Department needs to figure out how they failed.
Megyn appears to be praising those who shot the shooter.
I
know that a certain Texas school shooting lowered everyone's
expectations regarding law enforcement but that is the police's job. I
don't know that those at the location did it well. I don't know that
they didn't. But I know the Nashville police department failed
Nashville when they treated the friend calling as something to push off
and ignore.
Megyn's whoring
isn't helping anyone and it won't make the people of Nashville any
safer. But, hey, maybe it'll get some right-wing crazies to embrace
Megyn again? For Megyn, it was either that or endorsing Blackface again
-- she had to do something to rally her base.
Repeating,
the first call should have addressed reality and done so immediately,
then there was a second call and it didn't address the issue either.
This is not a time for praise. A tragedy took place and Nashville
Police needs to look at their actions and ensure more training so that
they're not ignoring an impending shooting again when presented with
clear information that someone's about to harm someone else in the city.
Related, "You are supposed to be a feminist! Trans 'women' are erasing women!" So claims an e-mail.
Uh,
no, they're not. A lot of straight, cis gender women are erasing
women. It's not your industry probably but I don't understand why, for
example, actresses -- a noble profession -- are expected to want to be
called "actors." I don't get it. Singer is an inclusive term.
Songstress is not, but singer is. So fine and dandy. But if we're
really worried about women being erased -- and our society never has
been -- then I'd worry more about women being forced to adopt male terms
than about people misgendered by birth. And then take a moment to
grasp that this is happening in 21st century -- this notion that women
should be happy with a male term. If we're going to rename the
profession why not go with "actresses" for all? Why do we have to
reward the male norm all the time? That's a better worry if you're
worried about erasure. Then again, if you were worried about actual
erasure, you'd be promoting Merlin Stone's WHEN GOD WAS A WOMAN and
other books that deal with the actual erasure of women from history.
If
Erica is transitioning or has transitioned, how is
her being a woman erasing me? Help me with that because I don't see it.
The
e-mail continues, "They are doing this just to win races!" Really?
Most of the transgender people I know are over college age and not
running or competing in any sport, first off. And while there probably
could be economic incentive for someone born physically female to switch
to male, there's no benefit to the reverse. Transitioning to male
could allow an athlete to make a lot more money if they have talent at
the sport. Anyone who transitioned to female to make money in sports
had bigger problems than greed because society ignores women's sports in
this country. The WNBA is mentioned most often to mock it. (That's
not me saying they deserve to be mocked. They don't. But if, for
example, FAMILY GUY mentions the WNBA, it's to mock it. And, no, the
same thing does not happen with the NBA.)
Riley
Gaines? Isn't that the loser's name. As Marcia's documented
repeatedly, that woman has changed her story repeatedly. Maybe now that
her sports career is over, she feels she can be honest? Here's some
honesty, it's over because she wasn't that good. More reality, Marcia's
right, she came in sixth in that race she keeps whining about which is
why she didn't get the fifth place trophy at the swim meet. They had to
send her a trophy. They were being kind to her and letting her have a
fifth place tie -- when she actually came in sixth. No good deed goes
unpunished which is how Riley ends up degrading us all today. And,
dear, with those tiny breasts, I don't think you need to be insulting
Lia Thomas. And maybe don't talk about others because, Riley, your
shoulders and arms do not look normal for a woman. They don't look like
normal swimmers shoulders, no. And look at the bulky arms and then the
chest that looks like it has pecs and not breasts.
I
get it, I really do. Lia didn't just beat you in the water, she also
beats you in front of any mirror. Rachel McLish is a body builder who
won many competitions and she never looked like she was juicing so I
really don't get 'swimmer' Riley and all the testosterone that appears
to be racing through her own system while she's attacking Lia. Same
with Cory Everson. I started working out in the 80s -- like many, led
there by Jane Fonda. I knew what I wanted my body to look like and what
I didn't want it to look like. I wasn't going for Rachel or Cory's
look but I didn't feel they lost any part of what made them a woman.
They looked like women with muscles. Riley Gaines' body really doesn't
look like a woman's body. Again, that might account for her
bitterness.
As we wind down, let's note this in Michigan:
South Central Michigan Greens
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Calhoun, Hillsdale, and Jackson Counties Local
People and planet over profit.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 18, 2023
For more information:
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Monika Dittmann Schwab, Local Contact/SCMiGreens
John Anthony La Pietra, Organizer/SCMiGreens
South Central Michigan Greens to Hold Public Reading
of Dr. King's "Beyond Vietnam" Speech Sunday, April 2
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Take "Time to Break Silence", Honor the "Other MLK Day";
Register on Zoom to Listen or Help Read Starting at 4pm
The South Central Michigan Greens local will hold a public reading of
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break
Silence" starting at 4pm EDT on Sunday, April 2 on the Green Party of
Michigan Zoom account.
Dr. King delivered the speech at Riverside Church in New York City on
April 4, 1967 -- a year to the day before he was assassinated in Memphis
while supporting a strike of local sanitation workers.
Local Greens celebrate April 4 as "the Other MLK Day", breaking the
silence about Dr. King's recognition that "the greatest purveyor of
violence in the world today" was "my own government."
Since April 4 is a Tuesday, the celebration is being shifted to the
previous Sunday and will start at 4pm EDT to make it easier for people
across the country to take part -- by being in the audience or by
joining in the reading.
To register for the event, visit this link:
The reading is also a post on Facebook at:
Recordings and scripts of the original speech, made to a meeting of
Clergy and Laity Concerned About Vietnam, can be found online.
Organizer John Anthony La Pietra has taken an online transcript
(possibly of the prepared text) and adjusted it to match the speech as
Dr. King actually delivered it. A copy of this script will be made
available for the event.
To discuss details and news about the South Central Michigan Greens
local, please visit its Facebook page:
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