Thomas Franks, the Clintons and "phony" Democratic populists in the New Gilded Age

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329. Good Points.. NC is doing it with "Moral Mondays" with Marches, Sit In's and those going to jail...

Every Monday when NC Legislature is in session.

It's getting folks attention when Professors, Doctors, School Teachers and Ordinary Citizens are Protesting and ready to go to jail for it.

We shall see how it goes...but Reverend Barber has huge support. And it's ongoing and movement is spreading to SC and GA.

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In North Carolina, "Moral Monday Movement" Marches Forward

http://www.workers.org/articles/2014/06/10/north-carolina-moral-monday-movement-marches-forward/

By Workers World staff on June 10, 2014

By Ben C.

Raleigh, N.C. — It came on the heels of a powerful sit-in at the office of North Carolina’s Speaker of the House Thom Tillis on May 27, during which 11 fast food workers and four clerics were arrested after nearly 12 hours of sitting in at the speaker’s office. This time the Moral Monday movement rallied nearly 1,000 people at the North Carolina Legislature — called the General Assembly — on June 2 around the theme of environmental and health justice.

On the Sunday night before the rally, both houses of the legislature unexpectedly announced that they would be out of session on Monday — a clear move to avoid the growing resistance of the people of North Carolina, expressed through the Moral Monday movement.

Speakers at the rally addressed a broad range of topics: the long history of illegal dumping of waste on communities of color across the state; a bill to open the state to hydraulic fracking that was racing through the North Carolina General Assembly; the state’s coverup of numerous violations of environmental regulations by Duke Energy and other corporations, including Duke’s recent spill of tons of toxic coal ash, and the denial of Medicaid by the far-right cabal that has taken power in the state.

MUCH MORE ABOUT WHY North Carolina is Up In Arms over Republicans Take over CONTROL of State House and Senate for first time in over 200 Years.

http://www.workers.org/articles/2014/06/10/north-carolina-moral-monday-movement-marches-forward/