1/19/2004

On April 3, 1968 Dr. King declared: We just need to go around to these stores, and to these massive industries in our country, and say "God sent us here, to say to you that you're not treating his children right. And we've come by here to ask you to make the first item on your agenda fair treatment, where God's children are concerned. Now if you are not prepared to do that, we do have an agenda that we must follow. And our agenda calls for withdrawing economic support from you. This morning, following a righteous service at First and Summerfield Church, hundreds of New Haveners of all backgrounds marched to the New Haven Savings Bank to declare their plans to withdraw their savings unless the Bank changes its current destructive course. Afterwards clergy and community members joined undergraduates in Yale's Woolsey Rotunda, where a year ago students were threatened with arrest for leafletting, and spoke our about Dr. King's vision for progressive radical social change and the work ahead of us to realize it. Because it's not enough to have a dream - you have to be willing to fight for it.

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