A Quiet Corporate Coup - Instead of lobbying, lobbyists are now becoming congressional staff

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35. that's how they want you to feel; that's why they spread fud daily. don't buy into it.

a bit of goodness for your morning:

How the Moral Mondays ‘Fusion Coalition’ Is Taking North Carolina Back

The state’s rightward lurch mobilized thousands, but the progressive movement behind Moral Mondays has deep, enduring roots.

That synthesis is working in North Carolina. The Moral Monday movement has brought tens of thousands of people into the streets and offered them a way to express their values so that elected officials are forced to take notice. And the majority of those participants would not have identified themselves as being part of any political movement prior to the last few years, Barber says. He points to further evidence of the movement’s effectiveness: the crowds in Raleigh are multiracial but predominantly white. When Barber visits a western part of the state—like Mitchell County, which is more than 60 percent Republican and 97 percent white—the residents come out to see him in droves, drawn by the movement’s inclusive message. Moral Mondays and the Forward Together movement are not only multiracial and intergenerational; they also don’t just involve the usual suspects—and that’s helped attract massive media coverage, Barber says. “The history of the white ‘Southern strategy’ is to keep people divided,” he adds. “This movement directly challenges that.”

http://www.thenation.com/article/180491/how-moral-mondays-fusion-coalition-taking-north-carolina-back?page=0,1