Historic K, Feb. 10

Historic K on Jones Street
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Arrival at 11:00 a.m., Program at 12 p.m. followed by a March to the State Legislature Building. Progress Energy Center (Old Raleigh Memorial Auditorium), 2 East South Street, Raleigh, North Carolina

HK on J: The People’s General Assembly

HK [thousands] on [Jones Street, Raleigh] is a call by the North Carolina NAACP to the progressive and civil rights community to come together to support 14-point public policy strategy that will begin to shift North Carolina political action in a way that will more clearly match our rhetoric with reality.

February 12, 2007 is the 98th birthday of the NAACP, in commemoration of a time when progressive whites and blacks came together to fight racial injustice and social inequality.

Today, our challenges revolve around the issues of education, health, labor rights, economic empowerment, civic engagement, and criminal justice.

The goals of HK on J are to:
• Gather 50-100 people from each North Carolina county to meet in Raleigh before the General Assembly to embrace a 14-point agenda that we demand the legislature to act upon. We will insert the 14-point agenda in every political debate and discussion until they become a reality.

• Remind North Carolina that the General Assembly belongs to the people, not the powerful; to everyday folk, not just those with the money and the influence.

• Create a statewide network of the progressive and civil rights community which we will build in order to promote a progressive agenda and civil rights in North Carolina.

HK on J will not be a moment, but a movement. This event will bring hardworking, everyday people together, and on March 28, 2007, the Second Annual People of Color Legislative Day, when we bring hundreds of people together to lobby the General Assembly, will be held.
For more information: http://naacp.ubernc.com/ or call 1-(866)-586-6544 today!

THE PEOPLE’S AGENDA: 14 POINTS
1. All Children Need High Quality, Well Funded, Diverse Schools.
2. Livable Wages and Support for Low Income People.
3. Health Care for All.
4. Redress Two Ugly Chapters in N.C.’s Racist History: The overthrow of the bi-racial 1898 Wilmington Government and the sterilization of poor, mainly Black, women from 1947- 1977.
5. Same Day Registration and Public Financing of Elections.
6. Lift Every Historically Black College and University.
7. Document and Redress 200 years of State Discrimination in Hiring and Contracting.
8. Provide Affordable Housing and Stop Consumer Abuse.
9. Abolish Racially Biased Death Penalty and Mandatory Sentencing Laws; Reform our Prisons.
10. Put Young People to Work to Save the Environment and Fight for Environmental Justice.
11. Collective Bargaining for Public Employees.
12. Protect the Rights of Immigrants from Latin America and other Nations.
13. Organize, Strengthen and Provide Funding For Our Civil Rights Enforcement Agencies and Statutes Now.
14. Bring Our Troops Home from Iraq Now.

Growing List of HKonJ Coalition Partners
• ACORN• AFL-CIO• Black Workers for Justice• Carolina Justice Policy Center• Democracy NC• El Pueblo• General Baptist State Convention• Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation• NC Association of CDC’s• NC Black Leadership Caucus• NC Community Development Initiative• NC Council of Churches• NC Fair Share• NC Institute for Minority Econ Development• NC Justice Center• NC WARN• Old North State Medical Society• Opportunities Industrialization Center• People of Color Day Coalition Members• People of Faith Against the Death Penalty• Prince Hall Grand Lodge of North Carolina• Southern Faith, Labor and Community Alliance• Southerners for Economic Justice• The AME Zion Church• Triangle Lost Generation Task Force• Triangle Urban League• UE Local 150• UFCW

If your organization would like to endorse this event please contact the NC NAACP. Email HKonJ@gmail.com or visit http://naacp.ubernc.com/ or call 1-(866)-586-6544 today!
For grassroots organizations that wish to sign-up for this event contact Curtis Gatewood at 919-939-3401 or curtisgatewood@minister.com

“OUR servants meet in OUR House. They decide how to spend OUR taxes. But their decisions have been corrupted. Rich corporations pay to play in our House. We can’t match their money, but with God’s Grace and your hard work, we can sure out-number them! Please join me on February 10, 2007 in Raleigh.”
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, President of the North Carolina State NAACP