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Michael Reynolds literally ( by passionate , unwavering dedication ) re-purposed trash into the treasure of a home / community-design & in a way so idealistic yet pragmatic. 

MR is a glyph for one who utilizes their creative talents & acquired accuman in a passionate, unwaveringly dedicated way on the struggley path towards changing the world to work towards the self empowerment of all ..to sacrifice , for to serve the materialization of an ideal made real, by mind , by body, by spirit, to give sound to MR’s vision ‘ to hear the earth sing like a jewell’ 

MLK was assassinated about 3 weeks before his poor people campaign was set to kick off .     (*CLICK THRU*)

“By the millions, people in America find themselves perishing on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.”-MLK

"When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty & shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide answers or justice, the people will rise up & express their anger & frustration if you refuse to hear their cries.  A riot is the language of the unheard.”-MLK

“ A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”-MLK “We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society.  When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, militarism and economic exploitation are incapable of being conquered.”-MLK

+ from this further article  (Click thru) “...Back in Oakland on Tuesday, as Democracy Now! was wrapping up at 6 a.m. Pacific time, Carroll Fife concluded: “We need to take speculation out of real estate, and we need to decommodify housing … we look forward to the fight.” Then they received a text message that the raid was underway, and rushed off to join the other mothers and their supporters on Magnolia Street. Police used a battering ram to break down the door of the house, terrifying the mothers inside before hauling them out.

Later that day, halfway across the country, six white candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination gathered in Iowa, one of the whitest states in the nation, for the final televised debate before the Iowa caucuses. Outside, Rev. William Barber was leading a “Moral March on the Debate.” 

Barber and his Poor People’s Campaign are demanding that the candidates participate in a nationally televised debate on poverty, including the crisis of homelessness. The movement continues Martin Luther King’s final campaign, the Poor People’s Movement ,which he was launching when he was assassinated. More than 50 years later, from Chicago to Oakland to Des Moines, the fight continues…”