Children to deliver petitions to McCrory's office ahead of 'Moral Monday'

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13. From The Guardian, UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/10/north-carolina-gop-moral-mondays

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Week after week, North Carolinians from all walks of life have come to Raleigh to exercise their constitutional right to "instruct" their representatives. Instead, they were arrested for trespassing in the "people's house". To date, over 300 people have been arrested and thousands have lifted their voices in opposition to the avalanche of extreme public policies. The measures include:

• Cutting the payroll tax credit for over 900,000 poor and working people

• Slashing state unemployment benefits and rejecting federally-funded Emergency Unemployment Compensation to 170,000 laid-off workers

• Rejecting federal funds to expand Medicaid to cover 500,000 North Carolinians without health insurance

In sum, the NC general assembly is making it harder for those who are sick to get healthcare; for children to get an education; for the incarcerated to be redeemed; for people to vote. At the same time, they make it easier for the rich to get richer; for the sick to get sicker; for private schools to profit while cutting funds for public schools; to implement the flawed death penalty; and to get guns.

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