JAM74 said almost 100 people had committed themselves to non-violent direct action within hours of Thursday's announcement that the project had received the green light.
All across the world planting fruit and vegetables is becoming a new form of non-violent direct action for a diverse group of environmentalists and food campaigners.
As King followed a path of non-violent direct action he transformed himself from a bourgeois intellectual into the King we remember today, a man who reached across class and color lines to call America to justice.