Mr. Johnson’s students: You rock for sending us that eye report. Thanks so much for that. Hello everyone. My name is Carl Azus. This is CNN student news. First up today we are going to Washington DC and the event where president Obama was speaking. Dedication of the national memorial for civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Junior, you heard the president mention delays from an earthquake and from a hurricane. This dedication was actually supposed to happen back in August on the anniversary of the historic march on Washington, that’s when Dr. King gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. During yesterday’s ceremony President Obama talked about how Americans today can draw inspiration from King’s work. And how “we can’t be discouraged by what is, we’ve got to keep pushing for what ought to be”. The dedication included musical performances and speeches by a wide range of people from Dr. King’s children to other leaders of the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King Junior was from Atlanta and some students from the city had planned to head up to DC for the dedication. They talked about why they were looking forward to the event.

 

I am excited because not only will I be able to get to meet stars in civil rights XXX, but I’ll be able to stand and see everything that Dr. Martin Luther King work for. He was not just about helping blacks, he was about all races no matter what color, no matter what you did to him, he was about forgiveness, he wasn’t just about ok well this is my race and we don’t have this. He was about equality to all mankind and everybody deserves equal rights. I’m glad to witness something that actually goes down in history like it’s very, it’s very emotional for me because since I wasn’t there when Martin Luther King was alive, is it to witness something like this and be able to come back and tell everyone about it.

 

The Occupy Wall Street Movement seems to be going global. These protests started several weeks ago in New York, different people who were involved said they protest against a lot of different things but anger at the US financial industry has been a consistent theme with this. The protests have spread to other cities in America, now to other cities worldwide: Rome, Berlin, London , Hong Kong, people all over talking about how world financial problems have hit them. Most of the protests were peaceful, some did turn violent. For example in Italy, a different group joined the occupy protest, they fought with police, set cars on fire and smash windows.