First NC Moral Monday arrestees due in Wake court
Source: AP
Posted: 10:23 a.m. today
First NC Moral Monday arrestees due in Wake court
By CHRIS KARDISH, Associated Press; MICHAEL BIESECKER, Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. The first Moral Monday protesters arrested at the North Carolina General Assembly are set to appear in a Wake County courtroom and are expected to plead not guilty.
Among the 17 scheduled for a hearing Monday is NAACP North Carolina president Rev. William Barber, who was arrested April 29 on misdemeanor counts of second-degree trespassing, failure to disperse on command and violating building rules. Barber, 49, said he'll appear in person.
Another five protesters, ages 21 to 24, from a May Day demonstration are also due in court, though they're not being represented by NAACP lawyers.
More than 450* people have been arrested so far as part of what have become weekly Monday evening protests against the policies championed by Gov. Pat McCrory and the Republican-controlled legislature. Republicans seized the General Assembly in 2010, and with McCrory's successful 2012 campaign, the GOP controls the legislative and executive branches simultaneously for the first time since 1870. Since taking control, Republicans have pushed a conservative makeover on economic, education and social policy that protesters call out of step with the electorate overall.
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* (the number is closer to 500)
mountain grammy
(26,646 posts)donate to the defense fund here:
http://www.naacpnc.org/
I'm planning a road trip to NC in the near future to join this protest. May they their numbers reach a million and may they live forever.
G_j
(40,370 posts)two full size busses from Asheville already filled..
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)And signs misspelled but at least phonetically correct. They wouldn't have been arrested then.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Ash_F
(5,861 posts)Now sleep. Sleeeeeeep.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)is so important ....and we should all be proud. NC isn't some Backwater State...it went for Obama in 2008 and how and why we've slipped back into Jesse Helms days...is complicated...and Dem Party is not faultless in this.
BUT...we are working hard and harder to turn it back. Gonna take lots of us pulling together...but, I think we can do it eventually.
We need Obama to push back to help us in the Court System. We need much more intervention to get rid of Citizens United that allows Art Pope and Koch to INFILTRATE our STATES all over the USA!
Obama needs to "Unchain Eric Holder"....or Eric H. needs to GO!