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Has MLK's dream been realized?
Over the weekend, tens of thousands of people marched on Washington to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Rev Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. During the event, called the “Realize the Dream March and Rally," civil rights leaders ranging from Reverend Al Sharpton to Martin Luther King III spoke to the crowd about the continued fight for equality, and focused heavily on voting rights.
Representative John Lewis of Georgia – who was the youngest speaker at the original March on Washington 50 years ago – said, “You cannot stand by. You cannot sit down. You have to stand up, speak up, speak out and get in the way. Make some noise. The vote is precious. It is almost sacred. It's the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democratic society and we've got to use it.”
This coming Wednesday, on the August 28th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King's original “I have a Dream” speech, President Obama will give a speech from the very spot at the Lincoln Memorial where those powerful words were originally spoken. The event will be called the "Let Freedom Ring Commemoration and Call to Action Ceremony." Just Obama's presence says something.
According to the NYT - The election of America's first black president is a testament to America's sometimes halting progress toward what Dr King that day envisioned as an "invigorating autumn of freedom and equality." We have come a long way towards real equality, but we still have a long fight ahead.
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Trade Unions...jobs promised, jobs lost (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
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Need to Know: Trade Unions...jobs promised, jobs lost- James Hoffa, International Brotherhood of Teamsters 
Daily Take: Climate change is happening faster than you think
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Friday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Crash of 2016
Hour Two: A victory for our privacy!- Mark Rumold, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Letter: " Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane", 6 Sept. 1819 " The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist, and shape into any form they please."
Hour Three: Anything Goes Friday
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Monday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Wealth Shift in America- Farron Cousins, Trial Lawyer magazine
Hour Two: The new shady dealers in Wall Street greed- David Dayen
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Hour Three: America's wealth hoarding problem- Cliff Schecter, Libertas LLC
And, Voter Suppression...what the GOP doesn't want you to know- Brad Friedman, The Brad Blog
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Thom's Poll
Will Congress accomplish anything when they return next month?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Conversations w/ Great Minds P1 Michael Lind - The Great Forgetting...
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Full Show 8/23/13: North Carolina Republicans Don't Want Anyone to Vote
Tonight's "Big Picture Rumble" discusses the continued efforts by North Carolina Republicans to prevent people from voting, whether the U.S. Military should pay for Chelsea Manning's hormone therapy and the growing wealth inequality in America. In tonight's "Conversations with Great Minds" Thom talks with New America Foundation's Michael Lind, author of the new book "Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States."
Thom Hartmann on the news August 23, 2013
Have you been fooled by 'Free the Food Trucks?'
We need another Church Commission!
The problem with a fiat currency...
Republicans don't want a middle class!
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