On Democracy Now! West set the protests in the context of a democratic nation unable to reform itself or come to terms with African-American poverty, unemployment, and lack of decent housing and health care. Recalling the legacies of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X, he urged people to make a connection between justice and compassion in their organizing: “What we need is a nonviolent revolutionary project of full-scale democratic sharing — power, wealth, resources, respect, organizing — and a fundamental transformation of this American Empire.”

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