Episode 33 :: Voices for a Just Economy: Richard Lawrence, ML King, Other African-Americans & Our Planet

Re-reading Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, speech "Where Do We Go from Here?" gives inspiration to give voice to what others are remaining silent about. African-Americans have repeatedly raised their voices and marched their feet for right relationships in America when America's too-white leadership kept silent, retaining their positions of power unfairly. Richard Lawrence, who grew up in an African-American family of 15, tells us in this podcast of his experiences giving voice with King and others to how the economic system was ruled by whites in ways that acutely excluded blacks. Richard was present in Selma (1965) and led clergy in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood in an important business and bank boycott which King joined in. (Richard was guest on an earlier podcast.) In 2013, the quest for right relationships throughout a new economy must include our planet who is herself speaking ever more loudly about how the current economy dumps its waste while extracting what it wants without paying the true environmental cost. Leaders of wealthy nations remain silent. The Common Good Podcast resolves to add our voice to the Earth's, along with other organizations like 350.org. Also, learn about a new resource co-host Jerry Iversen has prepared to help us focus daily on living toward a new economy. He calls it a calendar of daily inspiration for every year. (Read more in a recent JEM blog.) Ways to Listen and Download To listen to this episode, click the player at the bottom right of this page. The player also appears on the JEM home page or the top of the podcast main page.  To download this episode, subscribe using Feedburner, where you can choose your preferred subscription method including iTunes, email, or any other reader/podcatcher. To listen to other episodes, click Feedburner or click Menu on the main podcast page player. Feedback Call 858-480-6855 and leave up to a three minute message. Or, you can use recorder on our web site and leave up to a ten minute message (Flash Player required). Leave a written message in the sidebar form, or email [email protected]. Please rate us and leave a comment in iTunes Music Store. Donate to JEM JEM invites you to show your appreciation of our web outreach by a donation—either one time or as often as you like. Help us with hosting costs, software, and other incidentals that allow us to create our educational and inspirational content. Thank you. TO PLAY, click the next line.