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N.C. Moral Monday #4: 57 arrests at N.C. General Assembly today; 153 arrests...
Members of the N.C. Legislative Black Caucus show their support for protesters and those arrested for walking into "The People's House" (N.C. General Assembly) and refusing to leave.First busload of...
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N.C. Moral Mondays: Happy birthday arrest, MsSpentyouth!
Hundreds of protesters witness the arrests fellow protesters engaged in acts of peaceful civil disobedience at the N.C. General Assembly. With the arrests of 151 people on "Mega Moral Monday" (June 3)...
View ArticleN.C. Sen. Thom Goolsby, you SERVE N.C.; you do not RULE its people
Quick update: I'm off to get arrested for asserting my constitutional right to assembly peaceably at the N.C. General Assembly and may not be back for quite a while. Y'all just carry on without me,...
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N.C. Moral Monday #6: 89 arrested; Charlotte Observer reporter detained
Hundreds of supporters crowded the third-story balcony above the 89 participants in civil disobedience plus media covering the prohibited peaceful gathering at the NCGA on June 10, 2013. The start to...
View ArticlePlease, read this diary on N.C. bill to eliminate gun permits
Take a moment to read Christian Dem in NC's diary on N.C. House Bill 937, "Proposed NC law would do away with handgun permits." Today in committee at the N.C. General Assembly, the bill was ... well...
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N.C. Moral Monday/Witness Wednesday #6.5: 8 arrests on first Witness Wednesday
You've probably heard about Moral Monday at the N.C. General Assembly. We're in our sixth wave of Moral Mondays and have added a Witness Wednesday to our calendar. Moral Monday and Witness Wednesday...
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N.C. Moral Monday Wave #7: est. 84 arrested tonight; total arrests now 485
Moral Monday at the N.C. General Assembly in Raleigh is gaining traction throughout North Carolina and in the national media. And last week, we added Witness Wednesday to our calendar of protests and...
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N.C. Moral Monday/Witness Wednesday: Join Witness Wednesday at NC Capitol...
Been keeping up with the Moral Monday movement in North Carolina? If you're in the area, join the movement today as a witness to the odious raft of ALEC-sponsored bills being ramrodded through the...
View ArticleN.C. Art Pope creates database of Moral Monday arrestees, including several...
Pardon the brief diary; I just got to my hotel room after a long day volunteering at Netroots Nation and learned that the John W. Pope Civitas Institute has created an online database and a "Pick the...
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N.C. - Moral Monday #9: 72 arrested; 682 so far
(My apologies for not writing about Moral Monday #8; I made it back home to Raleigh after NN13 and caught a bus from the airport directly to the N.C. General Assembly just in time for the Moral Monday...
View ArticleMy own private abortion
I will be leaving very soon to take part in the 10th wave of Moral Mondays here in North Carolina. I was arrested June 10 for taking part in civil disobedience at the N.C. General Assembly; I won't be...
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N.C. Moral Monday #10: at least 64 arrested, 746 unique arrests so far
Rev. Frederick Battle is all too familiar with civil disobedience and what spurs people to fight power with peaceful assembly. The mild-mannered minister was arrested 51 years ago in Greensboro, N.C.,...
View ArticleAsk me anything about a Kossack Moral Monday meetup at the N.C. General Assembly
Interested in taking part in one of the upcoming Moral Monday protests and rallies at the N.C. General Assembly? Want to participate in a Kossack meetup?We have many fine qualities in Raleigh, North...
View ArticleN.C. -- Tweeting the NC Tealiban for permission about ... anything and...
"“If you want to make decisions about my uterus and my reproductive life, you get to make all the decisions about my life. You don’t get to cherry pick.” -- Bethany Erickson That's how Texas mom...
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N.C. Moral Monday #11: 101 unique arrests, things heat up
Hundreds of observers crowded onto the third-floor balcony of the N.C. General Assembly to peacefully support the 101 civil-disobedience volunteers being arrested one floor below. Amid sweltering July...
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BREAKING: N.C. Moral Monday #12: Spontaneous sit-in shuts down Gen. Assembly...
When NAACP-NC President Rev. William Barber suggested from the N.C. General Assembly building's second floor (where civil-disobedience arrests were beginning to take place) that people sit down if they...
View ArticleTakeover of NC Speaker Thom Tillis' office
Moments ago, a group of students and other North Carolinians moved into the office of N.C. Speaker of the House Thom Tillis and initiated a sit-in a la Wisconsin and Florida.Those of us not at the NC...
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UPDATED: North Carolina Gen. Assembly takes back 100 years of voters' rights
Democratic members of the N.C. House of Representatives joined hands and bowed their heads in an emotional show of unity as votes on HB 589 were counted in a late-night session on July 25. It is done....
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N.C. Moral Monday #13: What happens now?
As many as 10,000 protesters took to the streets of downtown Raleigh to protest the repressive bills that made their way through the NC General Assembly this legislative session. Protesters wore red to...
View ArticleN.C.'s new voter-suppression and guns-evrawhere laws take a dark turn
With the July 26 passage of HB937 ("gun omnibus" bill) and passage of HB589 ("VIVA/election reform" bill), the election circumstances in North Carolina have changed from omnibus to ominous.HB937...
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