[Vision2020] White Supremacists Stage Rally in Coeur d'Alene

[keely emerinemix]

If it's one of those days when I can travel, healthwise, I think I'll try to be there.  It's not enough to applaud Dr. King's work; in fact, you can't really applaud it without standing up in opposition to bigotry, hate, patriarchy and oppression.  Whether I'm there or not, I hope to remember that, as others have said before, MLK Day is NOT just "a day off," but a day to use whatever tools we have to combat evil.

So if I can't march, I'll write and generally try to continue my outside-agitator ways.  God bless Tony Stewart, and God bless all who work and walk with him --

Keely
www.keely-prevailingwinds.com


From: thansen at moscow.com
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 06:44:52 -0800
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] White Supremacists Stage Rally in Coeur d'Alene

Courtesy of today's (January 14, 2012) Spokesman-Review.
------------------------------White supremacists stage rally in CdAA dozen white supremacists demonstrated on Northwest Boulevard in Coeur d’Alene on Friday, waving Ku Klux Klan flags and signs supporting segregation.Among the demonstrators was Shaun Winkler, who calls himself the Imperial Wizard of the White Knights of the KKK. Winkler said his group plans another demonstration Monday – Martin Luther King Jr. Day – outside the human relations task force’s annual gala.About 1,300 students from the Coeur d’Alene and Post Falls school districts who attended a Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration Friday at North Idaho College saw the demonstration as their buses passed it en route back to school.To Tony Stewart, co-founder of the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations, it was a teachable moment.The students had just been learning about King and the civil rights movement in the 1960s, Stewart said.“What the young minds saw,” he said, “is that we’re still not free from bigotry and prejudice in this country or any other country. … They didn’t leave thinking that there are no problems.”The gala is the organization’s annual fundraiser, Stewart said. It raises money for programs such as the students’ MLK celebration, which has been held the last 27 years.------------------------------
Tony Stewart at the Northwest Committee on Human Relation's "Finding the Center" conference on November 5, 2011.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrI-eg6pPisSeeya later, Moscow.Tom HansenSpokane, Washington
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