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This posting was updated on 28 August 2023. First posted on 13 August 2013
Sixty years ago, at the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King changed America.
'The original March on Washington took place on 28 August 1963, a hundred years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which proclaimed the freedom of enslaved people in southern states. It was the biggest demonstration that Washington had ever seen.'
Martin Luther King Jr waves to supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, on 28 August 1963.
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This posting was updated on 20 August 2023
Slavery and Colonisation, Plunder and Pillage, Stealing and Thieving, Inhumanity and Cruelty:
The Beginning of the Age of Barbarity
Photo:Wellcome Images
Lest We Forget
‘We are a product of our history—even the history we don’t like to think about.’
Veritas vos liberabit (The truth will set you free)
One of the most effective ways to respond to the inhumanity and injustices of the past is to ensure that the current and future generations do not forget what happened, that we address the harrowing loss of liberty and life, cruelty, the stollen opportunities, as well as the loss of potential forgone earnings and income, racism, xenophobia, inequality, poverty, unfair and abusive trade practices which are totally formulated in the interest of the former colonisers and slave-traders/holders..., and the deprivation that reverberates across centuries to present time. Carpe diem!
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August 2023,78th Anniversary of the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Remembering the lives that were lost and the cities that were destroyed in egregious acts against humanity
August 6, 1945 8:15am Hiroshima
August 9, 1945 11.02am Nagasaki
In memory of the people who perished in the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I ask all the friends of the Globalisation for the Common Good Initiative to hold a one-minute silent prayer and to light a candle to remember the victims and to pray for the realisation of lasting world peace, free from the weapons of mass destruction.
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