North Carolina Faculty Complain After Conservative Group Seeks Liberal Professor’s Email

By Jane Stancill Raleigh News & Observer
“Surveilling a professor’s communications is a really troubling approach to protecting liberty,” the law professors wrote in a letter published Tuesday on the Chapel Hill News website and in the paper’s Wednesday print edition. “We deeply admire Gene Nichol’s commitment to protecting and speaking for the state’s poor and disempowered. The only comfort we take from this sorry request by Civitas is our confidence that it will increase his passion.”

Friday Nite Videos -- November 22, 2013

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Stephen Colbert: Nuclear Option in the Senate. Woody -- All You Fascists Are Bound to Lose. Siats - A New Mega Dinosaur. Every Nuclear Test. Music Love Army: We Are Not for Sale.

Music Love Army: We Are Not for Sale

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.

North Carolina, Come On and Rise Up

Amy B Dean, Truthout Report Truthout
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.

NC Moral Monday Activists Call for Special Legislative Session

Sue Sturgis Facing South
"Our state's policies and practices are being weighed on the scales of justice," the letter states. "They, and all of us who stand on the sidelines and watch them go into effect without raising our voices, are judged on the criteria established in our faith traditions and the principles in our documents which first constituted our nation and state. No matter which measure of human decency is used, our moral profile is a scandal.

Don Yelton: Not So Out of Step With GOP

Brentin Mock
Former North Carolina GOP precinct chair Don Yelton stirred controversy with his racially charged interview on The Daily Show about the state's voter ID law, but are his views on the law really out of line with the party's?

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NC educators plan job action for Nov. 4

William Rogers Left Labor Reporter
Fed up with state cuts to public school budgets, a group of North Carolina educators are planning a job action on November 4 to protest the cuts.

McCutcheon and the Two-Pronged Attack on Voting Rights

Brentin Mock Facing South
A Supreme Court decision striking aggregate campaign contribution limits would allow wealthy donors to buy as many politicians as they can; those politicians could then move legislation suppressing the votes of those who might object.
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