Given the kind of year we've had, celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King's memory and purpose this weekend in Oakland, CA seems like a pretty good idea.  Deep in the middle of a tough economy, city budget cuts,  a disaster in Haiti, and many local folks having a tough time getting by, celebrating King's purpose and spirit--and our own understanding of his work, might be just the thing.  Oakland Local takes a look at what's happening around town and hopes that at least one of these events can rock your world enough to get you out and into the spirit of the day.

Amid rising threats of another war on the Korean peninsula, local activists gathered to call for peace Monday evening in San Francisco.

More than 100 people protested the escalation of hostilities in Korea, including a sizable East Bay Korean-American contingent. Protesters wanted the U.S. to engage in direct talks with North Korea and begin negotiating a formal peace treaty to end the Korean War.