The North Carolina NAACP seeks to place 50 highly-trained paid Moral Freedom Summer organizers in pairs in local communities across the state to deepen and strengthen the Forward Together Moral Movement. The program will last approximately 12 weeks, from May 15th to August 2nd.
“We have people dying every day just because they don’t have access to health care,” one protester, Shayna Adelman, 32, said in an interview before she was jailed. “It’s morally repugnant to me. Sometimes you have to take dramatic action to get people’s attention.”
"Moral Mondays" movement spreads in South as a coalition of the NAACP, other activist organizations, including unions, rallied Monday in Tallahassee, one day ahead of the opening of Florida's 2014 legislative session.
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Tens of thousands of people attended the Feb. 8, 2014 Moral March on Raleigh.
Melissa Harris-Perry reports on the spread of Moral Monday's to other states.
Thankfully, there is ample evidence of activists around the nation celebrating King’s legacy in ways that expose ongoing racial and economic inequalities. The Dream Defenders, the Moral Monday protests,and the Fight For 15 all exemplifiy King’s legacy.
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NC MUSIC LOVE ARMY releases We Are Not For Sale: Songs of Protest on November 26, 2013, on vinyl, CD and for download with worldwide distribution through Redeye Distribution. NC Music Love Army are a united force composed of your favorite musicians set to battle against the regressive legislation of the current North Carolina administration. We are outraged. We fight with songs. We win with your ears and with your help. More information and donations toward this crowdfunded record can be made at: http://ncmusiclovearmy.org. Proceeds from album sales and live performances benefit Progress NC and Planned Parenthood of Central NC, two groups on the front lines of our fight to return sane governance to our beloved state.
This is a movement, not a moment...Moral Mondays have really caught fire. It took several months last spring and early summer for the Moral Monday protests to reach a crescendo. While early statehouse rallies in North Carolina started by attracting about 50 protesters, by July thousands of people from around the state were swarming the state capitol. After three consecutive months of action, there had been around 920 arrests for civil disobedience at the weekly rallies.
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