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Moral Mondays: 700 Arrested in North Carolina Civil Disobedience Campaign Against GOP Lawmakers
And what weve been seeing since January in this Legislature is that to cut 500,000 people from Medicaid and fromMedicaiddisabled childrenis immoral, its extreme, and its bad policy. To deny 170,000 people unemployment, who lost their jobs with no fault of their own, is extreme, its immoral, and its bad policy. To attack the poor by undoing the earned income tax credit, that even Ronald Reagan said was good900,000 people, so that you can give 23 families, wealthy families, a tax cutis immoral, extreme and bad policy. To attack womens rights, to attack voting rights, to try to engage in voter suppression, to undermine public educationall of these are part of what this extreme LegislatureI dont even call them Republican, Democratbut extreme Legislature is doing. We believe its immoral.
And were forcing a new conversation in the public arena thats not Republican and Democrat, thats not liberal versus conservative, but really is talking about whats moral and immoral, whats extreme and whats bad policy. We say it like this: Its constitutionally inconsistent, its morally indefensible, and its economically insane, what theyre doing.
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/7/12/moral_mondays_700_arrested_in_north
Transcript at the link. Please read it if you have time.
For weeks, thousands of people have been gathering at the North Carolina State Legislative Building for the weekly "Moral Monday" protest called by the NAACP to protest the agenda of the Republican-led state Legislature. Over the past 10 Mondays, 700 people have been arrested, including the Rev. William Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP. "If you want to change the nation, you have to change the South," Barber says. "If you want to change the South, you have to change the state capitals, and we believe that this extreme ideological group understands that their narrow minded agenda doesn't have much longer in the public arena."
Triana
(22,666 posts)This is why I like this Rev. Barber. He knows where the bull shit in the buckwheat and calls the dirtbags on it.
Catherina
(35,568 posts)questionseverything
(9,660 posts)i am fairly new to du and i have a question
this OP http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023232440 has 120 recs,this one has 111 but this one shows on my greatest page and the first seems to not be on the list anywhr
can any1 explain that to me?
DearAbby
(12,461 posts)it's the cruelty in which they seem to gain such pleasure from.
Triana
(22,666 posts)Seriously. Mostly wealthy and completely out of touch with the common citizen, but backed by Koch's AFP, ALEC, and other wealthy factions, they (think they) are forcing the rest of us to silently take a back seat while extreme and damaging policies are imposed that primarily benefit them at everyone else's expense.
People need to sit in the FRONT of the bus and get NOISY and disobedient if necessary. What they're doing simply can't stand.
WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)covering Rev. Barber and the Moral Monday protests.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)I think it is a common issue, many Republicans think when Democrats win it is rigged, Democrats vica-versa. We all know that the politicians do what their biggest contributors want, why not protest for publicly funded elections and outlaw campaign contributions? This would mean that when 90% of us want background checks for assault weapons it would pass easily instead of dying a slow death like it did.
I think Moral Mondays is a good way to start the discussion. I hope they will look for the root of the problem, which is the almost total corruption of our political system. The solution is to fight like hell for CCFR. Patriotic Americans should be part of this movement since what is going on now is unconstitutional and criminal!
dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)for putting the focus on the right point. These Moral Mondays are awesome, great to see the people standing up for their needs.
The real fix to all of this is CCFR, which is also where I focus my own puny efforts.
Here's a thought, what chance do we have of succeeding in getting the money out of politics? Serious question. I wouldn't ask anyone to quit focusing on their particular issues, even though CCFR is the fix to enable all fixes, because I can't say for sure that we'll ever get CCFR. I know that's not an option, we absolutely have to find a way to get it done, but you can bet it will be one of the greatest struggles ever against the monied elite. They won't let it happen without putting up fierce resistance.
I've been somewhat involved with Move To Amend, went to one of their "convergences", which honestly was mostly a waste of a weekend. I'll keep fighting on this issue somehow, whether through them or through someone else. But so far I don't see enough momentum building up, the populace is kept distracted from the real issues, fighting against each other left and right, and the ubiquitous "free market" arguments rot the brains of most of those glued to their TV.
So I don't know if I see it getting done. Which is tragic. And that's why I thank you here, we desperately need to amplify this struggle, not just from the progressive left (which is Move To Amend's focus, and my own ideological home) but from the ground up including everybody. The south would be a good test for this, getting the Fox viewers to join this struggle won't be easy but will be necessary. edit to add: The redefining of our struggles from left-right to moral-immoral is a great attempt to do just that, and I hope it helps, seems like a great approach.
chervilant
(8,267 posts)they can spend so much money to arrest these peaceful protesters, but they can't feed our children, the poor, and the elderly...
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)ReRe
(10,597 posts)The issue we face is morality v immorality. Right v wrong.
Start changing the morality in the Capitals> Continue on to change the morality in the South> and you will eventually change the morality in the Nation!
Sounds like a plan.
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)Since they think they are the moral party for supporting the Bible stuff of abortion and gay marriage etc.
enlightenment
(8,830 posts)"Moral" has a religious connotation that makes it open to interpretation depending on what faith one holds.
My granny used to say that she had no morals, because morals are something someone tells you that you should have. Ethics are things that you decide you need to hold.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)As long as they can keep us divided up with our own special interest they can deal with it....but united they have a problem.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)Rebellious Republican
(5,029 posts)I think I have heard of Bill Hicks not sure? But I like
RIP George Carlin, my generation.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)George is from our generation and Bill came a little after and didn't stay long.
- But I think both were cut from the same piece of cloth, they just have different designs....
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)marions ghost
(19,841 posts)sounds good to me!
merrily
(45,251 posts)thinking otherwise.
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)We have witnessed forty years of government by actual Republicans and the Republican Lite, and this combo has entrenched the nation in endless wars, including the Coming War on Ourselves to help the One Percent secure the profits off those Surveillance State Monies.
Over the last five years, we have set in motion the perpetual "Too Big To Fail, and Too Big To Jail," crowd. Geithner remains a free man despite his immoral and quasi legal legal maneuvering of the financial players during the Autumn 2008 Bailout Swindle. (He has also lied to Congress, a felony, and one that should have had him impeached from being head of the US Treasury. But now I guess, doesn't every official lie to Congress?) It is becoming the "New Normal."
Meanwhile the poor sap who put forth countless hours of effort on the behalf of sick people in Calif.'s Central Valley is starting out his prison sentence of ten years, as Obama's DOJ goes after the medical marijuana providers and yet avoids prosecuting the executives at banks that launder the violent cartel monies.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Rebellious Republican
(5,029 posts)" Its constitutionally inconsistent, its morally indefensible, and its economically insane, what theyre doing."
Those words rank right up there with these spoken by the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King.....
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
onethatcares
(16,185 posts)changing to the Human Rights struggle when he was murdered. The ptbs understood this, they couldn't afford to have
unity in the masses, so they cut him down.
Fight the good fight.
Rebellious Republican
(5,029 posts)xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)In every position they have.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)CrispyQ
(36,518 posts)Thanks for posting.
MineralMan
(146,331 posts)Nevernose
(13,081 posts)Powerful and honest.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Rec number 111. That's kind of cool.
felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)Human rights is not a partisan issue! I've written that countless times here.
To rob people of all their dignity and humanity is evidence they have given up theirs.