Rev. Lowery: Merge civil rights, Latino rights, gay rights, & peace groups

[MelissaB]

Lowry is brilliant and a powerful speaker. Watch is speech at Camp Casey at Truth Out here. It's at the top right now.

http://www.truthout.org/multimedia.htm

This is from proud2Blib's post last night here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x945931

That evening, Rev. Lowry arrived. He is the co-founder with Dr. Martin Luther King, of the SCLC. http://www.sclcmagazine.com / He is also the brilliant man who gave Coretta Scott King's eulogy. Wow is all I can say after listening to him speak for 2 days. He is 84 years old and sharp as a tack. One important thing he said is that we need to merge the civil rights group and the Latino rights group and the gay rights group and the peace movement. He said if we all worked together, bush would be gone. We have similar if not identical agendas; we all are working for human rights.

Here is a snip of his speech that I transcribed.

"The same folks who are against progress for black folks are the folks who are against progress for women and gays and farmers and young people and peace activists. We have to understand it's one struggle. This is ONE AMERICA, and the sooner we learn that the more effective our world would be."

[Catherine Vincent]

1. Yes, he is a very powerful speaker.

Isn't he the one that spoke at Corretta Scott King's memorial?

[KingFlorez]

2. Yes

[MelissaB]

3. Here he is.