{"id":1393,"date":"2011-10-15T07:30:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T11:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/marching-for-rights-mario-bartoletti-mlk-monument-occupy-valdosta.html"},"modified":"2011-10-15T07:30:26","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T11:30:26","slug":"marching-for-rights-mario-bartoletti-mlk-monument-occupy-valdosta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/marching-for-rights-mario-bartoletti-mlk-monument-occupy-valdosta.html","title":{"rendered":"Marching for rights &mdash;Mario Bartoletti @ MLK Monument Occupy Valdosta"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FD7m5a7VuPI\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/FD7m5a7VuPI\/default.jpg\"><\/a>\nMario Bartoletti stood up at the Martin Luther King Jr. Monument in Valdosta and said to Occupy Valdosta:\n<blockquote>\nI&#8217;m just shy of 79\nand I&#8217;ve been out here marching all the way today,\nand I&#8217;ll tell you why.\n<\/blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/6245709963\/in\/photostream\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\"  src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6053\/6245709963_acdf054c2a.jpg\"><\/a>\n<blockquote>\nWhen I was your age, we were marching for civil rights.\nWe made it.\nNow we&#8217;re marching for another kind of rights,\nand I guarantee we&#8217;re going to make it!\nI want you to promise, when you&#8217;re my age,\nyou&#8217;re going to be leading a demonstration\nfor those who march for those kinds of rights.\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FD7m5a7VuPI\">\nthe video:<\/a>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FD7m5a7VuPI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<br>\n<small>\nMarching for rights &mdash;Mario Bartoletti @ MLK Monument Occupy Valdosta\n<br>\nWe are the 99%,\n<br>\nMarching to Occupy Valdosta, Occupy Valdosta,\n<br>\nValdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 14 October 2011.\n<br>\nVideos by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.\n<\/small>\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mario Bartoletti stood up at the Martin Luther King Jr. Monument in Valdosta and said to Occupy Valdosta: I&#8217;m just shy of 79 and I&#8217;ve been out here marching all the way today, and I&#8217;ll tell you why. 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