Martin Luther King Jr.: A TIME Forum

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Jesse Jackson
Founder and president of Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Inc. and former presidential candidate He would be challenging the war in Iraq. The war has no moral foundation. It's built upon a lie, built upon imminent threat, weapons of mass destruction, an al-Qaeda connection. He'd focus on that. Second, of course, he'd protest vehemently that we've gone from lying about the war to spying on people protesting the war. He was on the anti-Vietnam war list. He would be protesting this violation of constitutional rights. Third, his last mission was to build a working poor people's campaign, declaring that there should be a job and income for every American, a floor beneath which no American would fall. So I'm convinced that today he would be focusing on this issue of building multiracial, multicultural coalitions, fighting to end the war in Iraq, challenging the unconstitutional moves.