The honoring of Martin Luther King, Jr. today is a time for those of us within the activist movements he energized to pause to reflect on Dr. King's vision of universal freedom and opportunity for all.
His dream is no less than the American dream, a dream that lives on and impels us to constantly ask ourselves the question:
does freedom ring in America today?
We all know Dr. King because of his historic impact on civil rights, but many don't realize that later in life he fought just as passionately for the rights of workers and against the entrenched institutions of injustice.
"Equality means dignity. And dignity demands a job and a paycheck that lasts through the week."
The War on Greed is exactly this kind of fight. The livelihoods of families have been directly attacked by the actions of buyout billionaires like Henry Kravis putting Wall Street's special interests ahead of his 800,000 employees... and pocketing $51,000 an hour in the process.
The first step must be taxing these buyout billionaires at a fair tax rate.
It will not solve all the problems, but it is a strong and forceful beginning.
With the presidential campaigns underway, it is the perfect time to force this issue into the campaigns the way Robert Greenwald did with his other movies "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of a Low Price" and "Iraq for Sale."
People are hurting, badly, and we must take beginning steps to bring the issue of corporate greed and economic equality to the nation's attention.
The days of slave ownership are over and the slave owning corporations and even small business owners need to realize that. It is the American worker that makes them their money.
Its time to hold them accountable and every business owner in America needs to realize that just because you work for them, for the small scaprs they give you each week, they DO NOT own you.
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