Recently on GRITtv we spoke with Hamid Dabashi on the movement in Iran. Dabashi called it a civil rights movement, and today as we celebrate the life and legacy of U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. we take a look back at another recent discussion of one of the biggest civil rights struggles of our time: the fight to liberate the Palestinian people.

Not long ago, the UN Human Rights Council released a report, the Goldstone Report, sharply condemning Israel's actions in the recent fighting between Hamas and Israel in the Gaza strip. The report called Israel's actions "a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate, and terrorize a civilian population, radically diminish its local economic capacity both to work and to provide for itself, and to force upon it an ever increasing sense of dependency and vulnerability."

Today we rebroadcast our show from the day that report was released, with activists Diana Buttu, a former spokesperson for the Palestine Liberation Organization, Neve Gordon, senior lecturer at Ben-Gurion Univesity and the author of Israel's Occupation, and Phyllis Bennis, Director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, discussing the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement.

Then, Hasan Kwame Jeffries a professor of history at Ohio State University and the author of Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Beltir?t=lauraflanders-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0814743056, on the legacy of the African-American struggle for freedom. The roots of the civil rights movement are deep and Jeffries traces them back to the moment of emancipation.

We also looked at community banking, back in the news as the hearings start up over the financial crisis, and the fight over the health care bill still isn't over either.

Finally, author and poet Remi Kanazi performs some of his new work.

We can't say for certain what Martin Luther King would do were he still with us. There are struggles all over the world as well as here at home that would've required his attention, from the devastation in Haiti to the fight for jobs and health care.

Still, we thought it an appropriate acknowledgement of his legacy of concern and struggle for the rights of all people, while we take the day to honor his memory, to re-air this program.

Thanks to Sick For Profit for video in tonight’s show.