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Walk for Change

Thursday January 21, 2010 - 09:05:00 AM
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Mark Coplan Berkeley’s second annual A Walk for Change in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday drew a modest crowd due to threatening weather. The group had planned to drive the mile route from Jefferson Elementary School to King Middle School this year, but a break in the rain allowed them to walk. At King, about 75 students, parents and school staff sat in the auditorium and listened to King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Organizers pointed to the empty chairs, where about 300 people had sat a year before, asking, “Where are you, on this special day of remembrance?” and encouraged the audience to go back to their communities and ask the same question.
Mark Coplan
Mark Coplan Berkeley’s second annual A Walk for Change in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday drew a modest crowd due to threatening weather. The group had planned to drive the mile route from Jefferson Elementary School to King Middle School this year, but a break in the rain allowed them to walk. At King, about 75 students, parents and school staff sat in the auditorium and listened to King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Organizers pointed to the empty chairs, where about 300 people had sat a year before, asking, “Where are you, on this special day of remembrance?” and encouraged the audience to go back to their communities and ask the same question.

Berkeley’s second annual A Walk for Change in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday drew a modest crowd due to threatening weather. The group had planned to drive the mile route from Jefferson Elementary School to King Middle School this year, but a break in the rain allowed them to walk. At King, about 75 students, parents and school staff sat in the auditorium and listened to King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Organizers pointed to the empty chairs, where about 300 people had sat a year before, asking, “Where are you, on this special day of remembrance?” and encouraged the audience to go back to their communities and ask the same question.