{"id":58,"date":"2012-03-22T15:48:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T15:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=58"},"modified":"2012-03-22T17:06:42","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T17:06:42","slug":"another-list-of-ideas-for-action-from-walter-mosley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"Another list of ideas for action from Walter Mosley"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Kevin Lynch\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-button-plugin\/images\/large-facebook-ico.png\" alt=\"Fb-Button\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like fcbkbttn_large_button\"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=58\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"large\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=58\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div><p>If you want a list of more (and related) suggestions for democratic citizen action, check out this column by Walter Mosley. He&#8217;s best known as the author of several\u00a0black detective book series, such as\u00a0the Easy Rawlins books (&#8220;Devil with the Blue Dress&#8221;) but he also authored\u00a0a wonderful series about an ex-con street\u00a0philosopher named Socrates Fortlow (the first Fortlow book, &#8220;Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned,&#8221; was also made into an excellent movie starring Laurence Fishburne [Morpheus in &#8220;The Matrix.&#8221;] ).\u00a0And those who saw Mosley\u00a0read in Milwaukee recently know he&#8217;s a\u00a0funny and brilliant guy. He&#8217;s been writing political commentary for quite a while.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/165117\/ten-things-you-can-do-sustain-occupy-movement\">http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/165117\/ten-things-you-can-do-sustain-occupy-movement<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also for a little musical inspiration, try this YouTube below of John Coltrane doing his beautiful dirge &#8220;Alabama,&#8221; in honor of the four young black girls killed in the Alabama fire Mosley alludes to at the top of his column.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t know, that&#8217;s McCoy Tyner on piano, and listen to the end to get the whole Martin Luther King Jr.-inspired effect the video caption refers to. Enjoy, remember, and act.\u00a0 &#8212; KL<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cOjxBuwBUEE\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cOjxBuwBUEE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t access these links, try my RESOURCES\u00a0page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want a list of more (and related) suggestions for democratic citizen action, check out this column by Walter Mosley. He&#8217;s best known as the author of several\u00a0black detective book series, such as\u00a0the Easy Rawlins books (&#8220;Devil with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=58\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-www-kevernacular-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hJWE-W","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}