NC student group uses the power of protest

[OneGrassRoot]

A single person doesn’t have the ability change his or her government, but as history shows, there is power in numbers.

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In 1963, more than 200,000 protesters marched on Washington D.C. demanding civil and economic rights for African-Americans, leading to the signing of the Civil Rights Act. While the words of Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Ghandi and other visionaries have been relegated to the history books, the spirit of activism and protest is alive, even in North Carolina.

However, activists in the state aren’t revolutionaries trying to stage a coup or overhaul the political system — they are students fighting back against cuts to public education.

The North Carolina Student Power Union was created by UNC System students in the summer of 2012 to organize students, promote their interests, and “take the power back from the administrators and the corporate interests that they represent,” according to the group’s website.

http://www.technicianonline.com/news/article_5461d906-b07b-11e2-9577-001a4bcf6878.html

[xchrom]

2. they're working closely with the naacp north carolina

http://www.naacpnc.org/Open letter to Governor McCrory and State Legislators

Dear Governor McCrory, President Pro Tempore Berger, and Speaker Tillis,

We are clergy members who have devoted our careers to serving the people of North Carolina. Many of us are natives, and have lived here all our lives. We care about the moral fabric of our State. We trust you also care about the people of North Carolina—all the people.

We have never doubted the good heart of the state and its people. North Carolina ranks high in the South. It is consistently characterized as a caring state, by observers across the nation.

At the core of North Carolina's good reputation is our ability to build bridges of democracy—not walls of division. We have earned the nation's respect because most of the time we govern for the common good—the hallmark of democracy. We take seriously our pledge that this is a nation with liberty and justice for all.

[xchrom]

3. and Rev. William Barber's page

http://www.revwilliambarber.com/


*** remember the roots to a lot of this goes back to the lgbtiq folks trying to fight amendment one.


the state is trying to take voting rights away from students who go to univerisities like duke in north carolina.

[OneGrassRoot]

4. Thanks for the other links and info, xchrom...

[rdharma]

5. Thanks for the info......

....... Having recently moved to NC, I was beginning to think there were no "like-thinking" people in the state.

[OneGrassRoot]

6. What area do you live in, rdharma?

You can message me if you'd like. I live in NC, too.

[OneGrassRoot]

8. I was going to say, Asheville is one of two liberal havens in NC...

and I would love to live in such a haven. I'm in an uber red area.

Well, if you can get to Asheville on a regular basis, maybe you can maintain sanity.

[rdharma]

9. That's where I go to pick up my yeast and copper line.