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The Creatives Episode 3 - Adriana Sparkuhl from Jake Wiens.

that's an actual quote from the man himself

Being Heralds of Change’s 1st appearance in SF, you will not want to miss this epic one of a kind event.
also view their website: www.thisisluckyme.com


dubstep, grime, hiphop, crunkness, psychedeliatic madness and more glitch alongside:

LL of Lazersword (myspace.com/lowestlayer)


DNAE Beats (myspace.com/dnae)


Dj Centipede


BoggL (of Symbiosis) vs Dj Dials (of the Projects)


Art!!!! =

Sasquatch


Chris Jehly - chrisjehly.blogspot.com


Sparkuhl

Lana Nichols

Kelly Koehler


Micah Weiss


Club Six 60 6th St. SF

'Hudson Mohawke was first brought to everyone’s attention when, alongside Mike Slott and Oddisee, he dropped the Herald’s Of Change ‘Show You’ 12” on Ireland’s much loved All City Records. Selling out in an instant, it marked the arrival of a prodigal talent and set him on a path of global success and notoriety. Continuing to butter us all up with some of the freshest and finest off kilter hip hop since Dilla, Heralds Of Change brought more heat with a series of releases on All City, each selling faster than the last and each garnering more and more praise from all quarters.

Hudson Mohawke is following up those early ripples with a big splash. His solo productions have $$$$$ed the ears of LA’s Ubiquity label, Holland’s Rush Hour and London’s Werk Discs – all of which have been quick to enlist Hudson’s remarkable remix capabilities. His potent unmistakable mesh of bionic beats and future grooves has struck a chord with music heads the world over with Gilles Peterson and Mary Anne Hobbs both giving Hudson serious air time on their BBC Radio 1 shows as well as Benji B’s Radio 6 Music slot giving support. A forthcoming album and a series of singles, due out on world renowned Warp Records, are sure to keep his star in the ascendancy.

Having battled under the name DJ Itchy until 2005, Hudson can add the fact that he is current Scottish ITF Champion youngest ever UK DMC finalist (at the age of 15) to his CV. Having left his battling days behind and now concentrating on production and party rocking in the clubs all over the UK, Europe and beyond, Hudson Mohawke is crafting a sound that is distinctly his own.....' -Mixed Bizness



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this is the kind of stuff that makes you just love your life.. i love my homies!!! you're all so awesome!! especially James Christopher for putting it all together and making such an amazing video back drop

make your voice heard at projecthotseat.org

A recent report report by the Center for American Progress estimates that investing just $100 billion in the green economy (one-seventh the amount contemplated in the administration's proposed Wall Street bailout) would create 2 million new jobs, with a significant percentage of those coming in the struggling manufacturing and construction sectors. In contrast, investing that much money in the financial services sector would generate just 1.1 million jobs, according to an analysis conducted by the study's authors, Robert Pollin and Heidi Garrett-Peltier of the University of Massachusetts. In other words, Wall Street's offering about half the jobs for the same money: hardly a smart bet for the taxpayer.

A green investment on the level of the Wall Street bailout could create growth on a much larger scale, almost entirely eliminating unemployment and significantly raising middle-class incomes. Instead of golden parachutes for CEOs, the government could finance America's transition from an oil- and fossil-fuel-dependent economy into one run completely on clean energy. Instead of buying up bad McMansion mortgages, we could pay people to retrofit their houses with high-efficiency appliances and green roofs.

The green stimulus could reach far beyond the energy sector to provide income and employment for rural America as well. It could finance the conservation of tens or hundreds of millions of acres of wildlands, providing income to farmers and other landowners--and make possible a whole new generation of national parks. (Many of those lands are now under threat exactly because of too-easy credit: without limits on lending, it's been all too easy for real estate developers to find the cash to pave over back-country wilderness for sprawl and ranchettes).

"In 1996, electric cars began to appear on roads all over California. They were quiet and fast, produced no exhaust and ran without gasoline...........Ten years later, these cars were destroyed."

Movie: Who Killed the Electric Car

WATCH IT NOW, for FREE:
http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/who_killed_the_electric_car.php

I thought we are in an "energy crisis"... I will be 45 when we will supposedly begin impacting our oil dependence

after doing alternative studies of oil reports and an interesting interview of an arctic oil explorer of the 80's, it has become EXTREMELY OBVIOUS, offshore drilling will do NOTHING for our problems TODAY!

we are in a critical time of environmental issues that we are all aware of and opinionated about. One thing that is known for sure is that alternative energy has already begun to answer our problems.

The amount of money that will be spent for offshore drilling could be spent to change our energy dependence. WHY ISNT THIS PART OF THE AGENDA??

DO NOT DESTROY
DO NOT KILL
OIL IS THE DEVIL..
IT IS CONTINUOUSLY SEPARATING THE CIVIL!
haven't we figured that out yet??

NO MORE OIL DEPENDENCE BY 2030, PLEASE!!!!

UNITE FOR SUSTAINABILITY!

READ the Annual Energy Outlook 2007:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/archive/aeo07/pdf/0383(2007).pdf#page=59






read more about arctic drilling:
Geologist Robert Meneley knows all about visions of fabulous Arctic oil and gas treasure. He tried to make the dreams come true for Panarctic Oils, Petro-Canada and industry partners.

"It was brutal," he said in an interview, recalling lessons taught by polar drilling campaigns he led in the 1970s and '80s. "We never got a good surprise."

In retirement as a consultant and member of the Canadian Gas Potential Committee, the Canadian Petroleum Hall of Fame and learned technical societies, the former exploration vice-president has a new mission as he turns 75.

He roves an international lecture circuit, where he puts reality checks on today's born-again romance with northern bonanzas.

He does not mince words about new Arctic visionaries.

They range from politicians looking for reasons to spend taxpayer fortunes on asserting national sovereignty over polar regions to theorists in Calgary's Arctic Institute of North America and Las Vegas investors selling shares in Arctic Oil & Gas Corp.

"These guys love to promote Arctic programs and spend summer holidays in the Arctic. They don't really understand the process of exploration," Meneley said.

"It wasn't easy. It was expensive like nobody ever imagined," he recalled.

From the late 1960s to mid-'80s, Alberta-based business teams part-owned by Ottawa spent an estimated $900 million employing thousands of professionals on ice- and airborne drilling projects.

Rigs spread out to geological targets beyond the North Magnetic Pole, beneath barren islands and frozen seas where safety precautions included polar bear guard dogs.

"Prospects of giant Middle East oilfields danced in the heads of promoters. The presence of giant oilfields was viewed to be an absolute certainty," Meneley recalled.

"The group quit because they ran out of prospects, not because they ran out of money," he reported.

Successes among the campaign's 176 wells were modest by international, Alberta and Alaska industry standards. Discoveries -- totalling 1.9 billion barrels of oil and 19.8 trillion cubic feet of gas (equivalent to 3.3 billion barrels of crude) -- were scattered.

None of the finds could support multibillion-dollar production and transportation schemes required to put Arctic supplies on energy markets.

"It's a total mistake to make any kind of analogy with the U.S. Gulf Coast. It's an amateur's gimmick to try and make any comparison like that," Meneley said, adding that full records of the northern campaign's results are publicly available.

Oil- and gas-prone northern sedimentary rock layers are much older, and eons of earth crust movements left a legacy of fractured formations far more complex than the geological reservoirs of the Gulf of Mexico, he said.

"What you're dealing with is a leaky system," he said. In the Arctic, the tops of salt domes that elsewhere trap oil and gas deposits are exposed on the planet's surface and broken. They let their contents drain or evaporate away long ago.

Global warming, now seen as melting barriers to development by opening up frozen seas to ships, does not change the geology, he said. Nor is a thinner polar icecap a potential silver lining to southern greenhouse gas emissions, he warned.

"Climate change isn't making it any easier to explore in the North," Meneley said.

Ice was his crews' friend when fashioned into essentials from roads and runways to artificial drilling islands made like big outdoor skating rinks.

But Arctic ice was also an enemy in its natural forms because currents and wind kept the sea pack in constant motion.

"Even in the 1970s it wasn't safe to go out offshore and shoot seismic surveys. The ice was just too mobile. It's even more mobile now," Meneley said.

"The Northwest Passage is well to the south. That's a potential transportation corridor. It's got nothing to do with oil and gas exploration," he said.

"Somebody who wanted to go back and start drilling up there would also face a very substantial hurdle getting the infrastructure in place."

Panarctic faded away in the early 1990s. Northern exploration landing strips, work camps, weather forecasting networks, aircraft-portable equipment and expert crews were dismantled or disbanded.

As heir to the discoveries, Petro-Canada is studying possibilities for an economy-model production project using liquefied natural gas tankers. But the firm takes care not to raise expectations, saying it is impossible to predict whether or when development might happen.

Fledgling Arctic Oil & Gas Corp. has attracted North America-wide attention, including coverage on CNN, by firing off a barrage of publicity releases predicting it will find the world's last great energy bonanza.

But compulsory disclosure reports in public files maintained by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission make it plain the Las Vegas firm's shares are not safe bets for widows and orphans.
© The Edmonton Journal 2008






It is our duty as human beings to open the minds of our brothers and sisters to see the realities of our existence. Be one, be open, be true.

No More Wilderness:
The Interior Department's Attack on Wilderness Protection
from http://www.calwild.org/campaigns/nowild.php

A full-scale assault on America's wilderness heritage is underway, re-opening many of California's last wild lands to wilderness-destroying activities. The Bush Administration is seeking to wipe out wilderness protections and short-circuit the responsible multiple-use planning process used by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on our public lands. This concerted effort was quietly developed and implemented at the highest levels of the Department of the Interior with very little paper trail and no input from the American people who own these lands.

If the administration's radical policies are not reversed, tens of millions of acres of public lands in the West and Alaska will be open to drilling, mining, logging, road construction, and off-road vehicle abuses–without ever properly considering whether these areas merit wilderness protection by Congress.

Specifically, the Department of Interior has:

1. Revoked existing protections for wilderness quality BLM lands, renounced its legal authority for conducting new inventories and wilderness reviews of BLM lands in the lower 48 states, and rescinded the BLM Wilderness Inventory and Study Procedures Handbook -- which outlines criteria for considering wilderness on a level playing field with other uses for public lands. (Settlement with State of Utah, April 2003)

In California, 35,000 acres of existing Wilderness Study Areas will immediately be stripped of protection, opening them to road construction, oil and gas leasing, logging, power line development, and off-road vehicles. These include Case Mountain with its giant sequoia trees, and Big Butte, a proposed addition to the Yolla Bolly-Middle Eel Wilderness in legislation currently before Congress. Click here for a complete list of existing California WSAs losing their protection.

In addition, 113,000 acres of potential new WSAs in California will be canceled as BLM ceases wilderness reviews it has been conducting in the Headwaters Forest Reserve, Carrizo Plain National Monument, Santa Rosa-San Jacinto National Monument, and threatened wild lands like Walker Ridge, where Enron and General Electric have proposed to build wind turbines in wilderness. Click here for a complete list of new WSAs canceled in California.

2. DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL
No More Wilderness Inventories

Interior Secretary Gale Norton says it's illegal to check for new Wilderness Study Areas in California's Carrizo Plain National Monument -- or anywhere else. Click here for a list and photos of new WSA reviews canceled in California.


Further, citizens will be unable to press the BLM to inventory our last wild lands before it develops them. In California, conservation groups have inventoried 1.8 million acres of wilderness-quality BLM land; more than 900,000 acres of unprotected wilderness were never properly inventoried by the agency and are currently at risk. The BLM's Wilderness Inventory Handbook previously required BLM to inventory wilderness before allowing development; now this safeguard has been revoked. (See the citizens' inventory California's Last Wild Places to learn more about BLM's unprotected wilderness.)

The California Wilderness Coalition has joined other state and national conservation groups to challenge this illegal settlement in court.


3. Established a process to facilitate the giveaway and development of thousands of miles of unsubstantiated rights-of-ways across our national parks, monuments, wildlife refuges, BLM lands, national forests, and wilderness areas, under the antiquated "R.S. 2477" mining law of 1866. (Federal Rule regarding Recordable Disclaimers of Interest, January 2003)

In California, more than 5,000 miles of these so-called "highway" right-of-way claims crisscross the Mojave National Preserve, Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks, the Siskiyou Wilderness, the King Range National Conservation Area, and other national lands managed by the BLM and the Forest Service. Many are nothing more than abandoned jeep ruts, cow paths, and hiking trails, which off-road vehicle interests want to permanently pry open for ORV use, claiming that they are "highways" in order to disqualify the areas for wilderness protection. Click here to learn how these RS 2477 road giveaways threaten California's National Parks and wilderness.

CWC is organizing volunteers to hike and field-check bogus highway claims in national parks, wilderness, and proposed wilderness areas, and we are monitoring all such claims for potential challenge as they are submitted to the BLM.


4. Instructed the BLM in Alaska specifically to cease consideration of any public lands in that state for wilderness protection.

No more wilderness in the wildest state in the union — what more can we say?


5. Asked the Supreme Court to overturn a 10th Circuit Court of Appeals decision that held that the public has the right to sue public land management agencies when they don't protect wild lands from damage.

If the Supreme Court agrees to hear the case, and overturns the lower court's decision, the public's right to participate in the day-to-day management of public lands could be abruptly terminated.



These actions by the Bush Administration are part of a deliberate effort to end wilderness as we know it on the public lands — and they are illegal. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) requires the Secretary of the Interior to maintain current, continual inventories — that includes wilderness inventories — and to establish and revise resource management plans for public lands. Additionally, the public's voice in land management decisions, guaranteed under the Wilderness Act, FLPMA, and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), has been completely undercut by these actions.

The Interior Department oversees a quarter of a billion acres of federal lands administered by the BLM in 12 Western states, including Alaska. This is amazingly beautiful and ecologically diverse land -- deserts, mountains, forests, redrock canyon country, sweeping grasslands, icy peaks and tundra. Of this vast amount of BLM land, only about 6.5 million acres are permanently designated as wilderness by Congress, with another 15 million acres temporarily protected in Wilderness Study Areas not yet touched by this anti-wilderness assault. With the Department of the Interior's new policy, all the rest will receive no BLM study that could lead to congressional action. The bottom line: wilderness values that could exist on as much as 220 million acres of BLM lands (much of which has obvious and spectacular wilderness qualities) can no longer even be "studied," the long-used process that precedes the agency's recommendation that Congress designate additional wilderness areas.

California's existing and potential Wilderness Study Areas are some of the last wild places owned by the American public, and should be safeguarded until Congress can consider them for permanent protection as wilderness areas. Instead, the Bush Administration has hung out the "Open for Business" sign inviting energy companies, timber companies, and other developers to exploit the last remaining wilderness.

For more information please contact:
Ryan Henson at (530) 246-3087

News and politics are very similar. News is a business like any other. There is a lot of anti this anti that...

One thing that I can be sure of, I will not be influenced by slander and opinion; and that my vote will be decided based on the facts I have researched myself. I will watch debates between McCain & Obama, but any other arguments from here on out will be regarded as useless information.

NO ARGUMENTS, NO OPINIONS, NO INTERVIEWS AND NO SLANDER WILL BE OBSERVED AS WORTHY DECISION-MAKING MATERIAL.

The first place I am going is wikipedia, going beyond the website and reading the citations. I reserve my right to understand the facts of history, what has really happened and not just what people, even news anchors, say has happened.

It is my advice to keep your head strong and pay attention to what these candidates have done and are capable of doing. To not get angry at the opinions or lies of the media or your peers, but to wonder where the true information is and actually look it up.

If you have any suggestions, good resource tools, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!


Love and Respect

Yours Truly

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interview!

There will be a magnificent collaborative installation with my art and speakers!
at 210 Studios on Clara St this friday with:

Adriana Sparkühl
Chore Boogie
Eon75
and several others whose all names i have forgotten..

this is a mural done there a year ago at the same space that chore boogie worked on!


here is a video that my speaker installation was featured in


Eon75:


please come!

210 Clara St
2nd floor
(between 5th St & 6th St)
San Francisco, CA 94107
7pm??

I do believe that racism is trait of ignorance, we all should know better. Dr. King is an acclaimed philosopher, please read his work. One problem i found in his "I have a Dream" speech is he claims the US Constitution was written for all men, black or white; which unfortunately it wasn’t, for women either.. at the time the constitution was written, slavery was still prominent and blacks weren’t even considered 100% human (disgusting) while women were considered owned by their husbands. Fortunately our society has evolved and all persons are considered in the US Constitution.

Thanks to MLK we have progressed as a species, it takes people like him to wake up our consciousness. racism is genetic! (look it up) we must never hate because none of us will ever truly understand the perspective of the next. Be stronger than your instincts!! Be stronger than the ignorant!

the speech:


I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Martin Luther King, Jr., delivering his ’I Have a Dream’ speech from the steps of Lincoln Memorial. (photo: National Park Service)

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

In a sense we have come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check — a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. They have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.

As we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied, as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating "For Whites Only". We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim’s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."

And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!

Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!

But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"



This is a letter i received from color of change:

" On this date, 40 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. It’s a day when many of us will celebrate his legacy, the values he espoused, and his vision for a better America. Some will talk about the King who challenged America’s unlawful war in Vietnam, who found common ground with Malcolm X, and who became more aggressive in his push for improving America. But the media will likely focus a great deal on politicians who give speeches where they try to align themselves with his legacy.

We wanted to make sure that today when Senator McCain speaks, you and your friends and family know who’s talking.

McCain will bring his "Service to America" tour to Memphis on Friday, but many people don’t know the service he touts includes voting against the federal holiday honoring Dr. King. In August 1983 he fought the holiday, voting to block a piece of bipartisan legislation honoring him that was supported by even conservative Republicans--including Dick Cheney--and signed into law by President Reagan.

McCain went on to resist recognizing a King holiday in his home state of Arizona. When Arizona’s state legislature failed to pass a bill recognizing a holiday honoring Dr. King, the governor at the time, Bruce Babbit, created the holiday by executive order. Babbit’s successor, Gov. Evan Mecham rescinded the order as his first act in office, doing away with the holiday. John McCain’s response? He defended the governor, not Dr. King. (After undoing the holiday, the same governor went on to publicly support referring to Black people as "pickaninnies").

In 1990, seven years after his initial vote, McCain went along with establishing a King holiday. On the campaign trail in 2000, facing questions about his history on this issue, McCain declared he had "evolved."

Looking at the rest of McCain’s public record, even recently, it’s hard to see much evidence of an "evolution". In fact, McCain has consistently opposed a civil rights agenda:

* He voted an amazing FOUR times against the Civil Rights Act of 1990--a bill designed to make it easier for employees to prove job discrimination and imposing harsher penalties on bosses who discriminated.
* In 2004 he opposed affirmative action in college admissions--a key component of the 1964 Civil Rights Act that is among King’s key legislative victories.
* He has voted at least 8 times against raising the minimum wage.
* And as recently as last month, he argued against federal intervention to help Americans, disproportionately Black Americans, who have faced foreclosure during the housing crisis.

If John McCain has evolved, he hasn’t evolved much. Instead, we see a consistent and troubling pattern. From campaigning against Dr. King’s holiday to undermining important civil rights laws, John McCain has not stood side by side with King’s vision, he has stood in its way.

Today, we hope that everyone will take a moment to pause and remember Dr. King’s legacy, recognizing his contributions of words, deeds and ultimately his life. And we hope that all can see past political posturing (regardless of who it comes from) and embrace the bold, challenging vision that King actually projected. We believe that in doing so, we honor both his legacy and his sacrifice.

-- James, Van, Gabriel, Clarissa, Mervyn, Andre, and the rest of the ColorOfChange.org team
April 4th, 2008 "