Friend --

"...we have been forced to a point where we're going to have to grapple with the problems that men have been trying to grapple with through history, but the demand didn't force them to do it. Survival demands that we grapple with them. Men, for years now, have been talking about war and peace. But now, no longer can they just talk about it. It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence."

—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Yesterday marked the anniversary of Dr. King's "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech in Memphis, the final public speech he would deliver before being assassinated the following day.

In it, Dr. King linked the evils of war and colonialism abroad to racist oppression and the exploitation of workers in the U.S. Conversely, he also linked global uprisings for liberation to the struggle of local sanitation workers striking for "fair and honest treatment."

Dr. King remarked on how high the stakes were and, as the world confronts nuclear brinksmanship at a level we have not seen in decades, we cannot deny similar stakes exist today. The duopoly parties of war and Wall Street have brought us back to the brink, even as they attempt to sanitize Dr. King's radical legacy and the lessons he taught us with his life.

Will you give to the Green Party today so that our candidates and organizers can continue to put into practice what Dr. King taught? Greens understand the necessity of Non-Violence, the imperative of dismantling the war machine to have any hope of building a society capable of a just and ecologically-sustainable peace.

“Today the necessity to stand with the oppressed and oppose war and violence of all kinds has never been more urgent. But that stand cannot be just as individuals. Individual commitment is important, but what Dr. King’s life reaffirmed was the power of movement — of organized and determined people moving in a common direction. That is why the government so desperately attempts to disconnect Dr. King from the people and the movement that produced him and to silence any opposition to its colonialist violence. The example of movement building and struggle is an example that has to be brutally suppressed..."

—Ajamu Baraka

Our 2016 nominee for Vice President, Ajamu Baraka, highlighted in that passage the necessity of working in an organized movement. The Green Party exists to bring the demands of peoples' movements into the electoral arena, through political and financial independence from the billionaires and their dark money PACs. That means we rely on grassroots support from everyday people like you. Please give today and, if you have not already, consider signing up to give every month as a Green Party Monthly Sustainer. 

In solidarity,
The Green Party of the United States
http://www.gp.org/

P.S. You can read and listen to Dr. King's "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech in its entirety online.