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  • Environmental Justice Requires MLK’s Fierce Urgency of Now

    More than 50 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke about race in America and invoked the imagery of this nation’s natural beauty to inspire and encourage collective action and to implore our sense of justice to “roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.” Five years later, in 1968, just hours…

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    Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Rev. Oscar Tillman






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    May 26, 2014
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Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Rev. Oscar Tillman






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