GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee
Circa 1969, Dick Gregory , was listed as a sponsor of the Socialist Workers Party led GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee .[1]
National Anti-Imperialist Conference in Solidarity With African Liberation
Dick Gregory of Chicago, Illinois was named as a sponsor of the Communist Party USA dominated National Anti-Imperialist Conference in Solidarity With African Liberation held at Dunbar Vocational High School, Martin Luther King Drive, Chicago, October 19 to 21 1973.[2]
All-Peoples Congress National Advisory Board
In 1983, the Workers World Party influenced All-Peoples Congress National Advisory Board, included;
Bella Abzug WOMEN. U.S.A.
Isaiah Bennett President. A. Philip Randolph Institute. South Carolina President, Local J5A., Retail.Wholesale and Department Store Employees Union.
Josephine D. Butler Chairperson. D.C. Statehood Party
Reverend Victor Carpenter , Senior Minister, Arlington Street Church
Ramsey Clark, Former U.S: Attorney General
Lynda Clendenning, Vice President; AFSÇME Maryland State Employees Council
Emile DAntonio, Film Director
Dick Gregory
Dr. Michio Kaku Prfessor of Nuclear Physics. City College, of New York.
Corita Kent, Artist
Paul ODwyer Former President. New York City Council
Margaret Ratner, Attorney
Jewel Ryan White, President, National Black Communications Coalition President. Local 5011, Communications Workers of America
Wilard Uphaus, World Fellowship of Faiths
George Wald, Nobel Prize Laureate, Harvard University
Quentin Young, M.D.[3]
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Millions More Movement
The Millions More Movement held an important all-day rally Oct. 15, 2005 on the National Mall that attracted an overwhelmingly African-American crowd numbering more than 1 million, according to organizers. The main demand put forth by the rally organizers and supported by the masses there was Black power!
Not one U.S. flag was prominent in the crowd, but the colors of the flag for U.S. Black liberationred, black and greencould be seen everywhere.
This MMM rally was first announced in 2004 as a commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the Million Man March on Oct. 16, 1995, held at the same site. That event attracted at least 1 million, mainly Black men, and was initiated by the Nation of Islam.
The speeches were focused on a variety of issues: the prison system and the plight of political prisonersespecially Mumia Abu-Jamal, Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown) and Leonard Peltier-police brutality, reparations, voter disenfranchisement, LGBT oppression, immigrant rights, economic and political empowerment, education and health, the role of art and culture in the struggle for social justice, and much more.
The main presentation at this rally was given by the MMMs national convener and NOI leader, the Hon. Minister Louis Farrakhan.
Among the many other speakers were Clarence Thomas and Chris Silvera from the Million Worker March Movement; Dr. Dorothy Height of the National Council of Negro Women; Indigenous leaders Russell Means and Vernon Bellecourt; Congress woman Sheila Jackson; Haitian singer Wyclef Jean; Reverends Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson; Viola Plummer of the Dec. 12 Movement; Damu Smith, Black Voices for Peace; and comedian and social activist Dick Gregory.
In a videotaped message played to the crowd, the president of Cubas National Assembly, Ricardo Alarcón, expressed the Cuban peoples solidarity with Katrina survivors and all the poor in the U.S. He also spoke about the case of the Cuban 5, who were imprisoned for fighting against terrorism while the U.S. aids and shelters real terrorists like Luis Posada Carriles. [5]
http://www.keywiki.org/Dick_Gregory#Millions_More_Movement
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Millions More Movement rally
Washington D.C., October 15, 2005
Louis Farrakhan speech
Louis Farrakhan, at the Millions More Movement rally in DC, Oct 15, 2005: "...what Mao Tse Tung did was, he went to the cultural community, and they [Farrakhan spreads his arms beneficently] accepted his idea."... "Mao Tse Tung ... had a billion people whose lives he had to transform."..."the idea of Mao Tse Tung became the idea of a billion people, and China became a world power on the base of the culture and the arts community. If we had a ministry of art and culture in every city we'd create this movement [in the U.S.]."
Source: http://thedrunkablog.blogspot.com/2005/10/communist-plot-noted.html
Or,
Original source:
Source: FinalCall.com
This is Farrakhan's own "Nation Of Islam" website
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_4328.shtml
Backup link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080720031254/http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_4328.shtml