Schedule for Occupy Moore, Dec. 10
11:00 – 11:30 Drum Circle, Welcome, Reading by Rev. Don Welch
11:30 – 12:30 Education Panel
12:30 – 1:00 Music
1:00 – 1:15 Reading by Tim Maroney, Reading by NC NAACP 2011 Torch of Freedom Award Winner, Wilma Laney
1:15 – 2:00 A Look at The Moore County Poverty Study by Barbara Farr of League of Women Voters
2:00 – 2:45 Music by Tampa Blue
2:45 – 3:30 Jenn Frye of Democracy NC talks about Voter ID Laws with a Focus on Moore County
3:30 – 4:00 O'Linda Gillis of the Moore County NAACP
4:00 – 5:00 Featuring Fenton Wilkinson of Sandhills Farm to Table Cooperative on Empowerment
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Showing posts with label League of Women Voters. Show all posts
9/15/2009
Attacking Health Care Reform
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/8/26/772871/-Who-are-the-League-of-American-Voters-and-
[NOT TO BE CONFUSED with The League of Women Voters, a strongly non-partisan bastian of American political discourse]
[NOT TO BE CONFUSED with The League of Women Voters, a strongly non-partisan bastian of American political discourse]
7/02/2008
Recycle, July 12, Sou. Pines
Mixed paper--shredded office, junk mail, phone books, greeting cards, gift-wrap, newspapers, mags, shiny ads, cardboard, cereal boxes, batteries
Saturday, July 12
9:00 - 3:00
Gas station at Fresh Market
sponsors: Keep Moore Co. Beautiful and League of Women Voters of MC
Saturday, July 12
9:00 - 3:00
Gas station at Fresh Market
sponsors: Keep Moore Co. Beautiful and League of Women Voters of MC
6/27/2008
4/18/2008
Horrible Night in Philly
An Open Letter to Charlie Gibson and George Stephanapoulos
By Will Bunch
The Philadelphia Daily News
Thursday 17 April 2008
Dear Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos,
It's hard to know where to begin with this, less than an hour after you signed off from your Democratic presidential debate here in my hometown of Philadelphia, a televised train wreck that my friend and colleague Greg Mitchell has already called, quite accurately, "a shameful night for the U.S. media." It's hard because - like many other Americans - I am still angry at what I just witnesses, so angry that it's hard to even type accurately because my hands are shaking. Look, I know that "media criticism" - especially when it's one journalist speaking to another - tends to be a genteel, colleagial thing, but there's no genteel way to say this.
With your performance tonight - your focus on issues that were at best trivial wastes of valuable airtime and at worst restatements of right-wing falsehoods, punctuated by inane "issue" questions that in no way resembled the real world concerns of American voters - you disgraced my profession of journalism, and, by association, me and a lot of hard-working colleagues who do still try to ferret out the truth, rather than worry about who can give us the best deal on our capital gains taxes. But it's even worse than that. By so badly botching arguably the most critical debate of such an important election, in a time of both war and economic misery, you disgraced the American voters, and in fact even disgraced democracy itself. Indeed, if I were a citizen of one of those nations where America is seeking to "export democracy," and I had watched the debate, I probably would have said, "no thank you." Because that was no way to promote democracy.
You implied throughout the broadcast that you wanted to reflect the concerns of voters in Pennsylvania. Well, I'm a Pennsylvanian voter, and so are my neighbors and most of my friends and co-workers. You asked virtually nothing that reflected our everyday issues - trying to fill our gas tanks and save for college at the same time, our crumbling bridges and inadequate mass transit, or the root causes of crime here in Philadelphia. In fact, there almost isn't enough space - and this is cyberspace, where room is unlimited - to list all the things you could have asked about but did not, from health care to climate change to alternative energy to our policy toward China to the deterioration of Afghanistan to veterans' benefits to improving education. You ignored virtually everything that just happened in what most historians agree is one of the worst presidencies in American history, including the condoning of torture and the trashing of the Constitution, although to be fair you also ignored the policy concerns of people on the right, like immigration issues. You asked about gun control - phrased to try for a "gotcha" in a state where that's such a divisive issue - but not about what we really care about, which is how to reduce crime. You pressed and pressed on those capital gains taxes, but Senators Clinton and Obama were forced to bring up the housing crisis on their own initiative.
Instead, you wasted more than half of the debate - a full hour - on tabloid trivia that for the most part wasn't even that interesting, because most of it was infertile ground that has already been covered again and again and again. I'm not saying that Rev. Wright and Bosnia sniper fire and "bitter" were never newsworthy - I myself wrote about all of these for the Philadelphia Daily News or my Attytood blog, back when they were more relevant - but the questions were stale yet clearly intended to gin up controversy (they didn't, by the way, other than the controversy over you.) The final questions of that section, asking Obama whether he thought Rev. Wright "loved America" and then suggesting that Obama himself is somehow a hater of the American flag, or worse, were flat-out repulsive.
Are you even thinking when simply echo some of the vilest talking points from far-right talk radio? What are actually getting at - do you honestly believe that someone with a solid track record as a lawmaker in a Heartland state which elected him to the U.S. Senate, who is now seeking to make some positive American history as our first black president, is somehow un-American, or unpatriotic? Does that even make any sense? Question his policies, or question his leadership. Because that is your job as a journalist. But don't insult our intelligence by questioning his patriotism.
Here's a question for you, George. Is it true that yesterday you appeared on the radio with conservative talk radio host Sean Hannity, and that you said you were "taking notes" when he urged you to ask a question about Obama's supposed ties to a former member of the Weather Underground - which in fact you did. With all the fabulous resources of ABC News at your disposal, is that an appropriate way for a supposed journalist to come up with debate questions, by pandering to divisive radio shows?
And Charlie...could you be any more out of touch with your viewers? Most people aren't millionaires like you, and if Pennsylvanians are losing sleep over economic matters, it is not over whether the capital gains tax will go back up again. I was a little shocked when you pressed and pressed on that back-burner issue and left almost no time for high gas prices, but then I learned tonight that you did the same thing in the last debate, that you fretted over that middle-class family that made $200,000 a year. Charlie, the nicest way that I can put this is that you need to get out more.
But I'm not ready to make nice. What I just watched was an outrage. As a journalist, you appeared to confirm all of the worst qualities that cause people to hold our profession in such low esteem, especially your obsession with cornering the candidates with lame "trick" questions and your complete lack of interest or concern about substance - or about the American people, or the state of our nation. You embarassed some good people who work at ABC News - for example, the journalists who worked hard to break this story just last week - and you embarassed yourselves. The millions of people who watched the debate were embarassed, too - at the state of our political discourse, and what it has finally become, at long last.
Quickly, a word to any and all of my fellow journalists who happen to read this open letter. This. Must . Stop. Tonight, if possible. I thought that we had hit rock bottom in March 2003, when we failed to ask the tough questions in the run-up to the Iraq war. But this feels even lower. We need to pick ourselves up, right now, and start doing our job - to take a deep breath and remind ourselves of what voters really need to know, and how we get there, that's it's not all horserace and "gotcha." Although, to be blunt, I would also urge the major candidates in 2012 to agree only to debates that are organized by the League of Women Voters, with citizen moderators and questioners. Because we have proven without a doubt in 2008 that working journalists don't deserve to be the debate "deciders."
Charlie, I'm going to sign off this letter the way that you always sign off the news, that "I hope you had a great day."
Because America just had a horrible night.
By Will Bunch
The Philadelphia Daily News
Thursday 17 April 2008
Dear Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos,
It's hard to know where to begin with this, less than an hour after you signed off from your Democratic presidential debate here in my hometown of Philadelphia, a televised train wreck that my friend and colleague Greg Mitchell has already called, quite accurately, "a shameful night for the U.S. media." It's hard because - like many other Americans - I am still angry at what I just witnesses, so angry that it's hard to even type accurately because my hands are shaking. Look, I know that "media criticism" - especially when it's one journalist speaking to another - tends to be a genteel, colleagial thing, but there's no genteel way to say this.
With your performance tonight - your focus on issues that were at best trivial wastes of valuable airtime and at worst restatements of right-wing falsehoods, punctuated by inane "issue" questions that in no way resembled the real world concerns of American voters - you disgraced my profession of journalism, and, by association, me and a lot of hard-working colleagues who do still try to ferret out the truth, rather than worry about who can give us the best deal on our capital gains taxes. But it's even worse than that. By so badly botching arguably the most critical debate of such an important election, in a time of both war and economic misery, you disgraced the American voters, and in fact even disgraced democracy itself. Indeed, if I were a citizen of one of those nations where America is seeking to "export democracy," and I had watched the debate, I probably would have said, "no thank you." Because that was no way to promote democracy.
You implied throughout the broadcast that you wanted to reflect the concerns of voters in Pennsylvania. Well, I'm a Pennsylvanian voter, and so are my neighbors and most of my friends and co-workers. You asked virtually nothing that reflected our everyday issues - trying to fill our gas tanks and save for college at the same time, our crumbling bridges and inadequate mass transit, or the root causes of crime here in Philadelphia. In fact, there almost isn't enough space - and this is cyberspace, where room is unlimited - to list all the things you could have asked about but did not, from health care to climate change to alternative energy to our policy toward China to the deterioration of Afghanistan to veterans' benefits to improving education. You ignored virtually everything that just happened in what most historians agree is one of the worst presidencies in American history, including the condoning of torture and the trashing of the Constitution, although to be fair you also ignored the policy concerns of people on the right, like immigration issues. You asked about gun control - phrased to try for a "gotcha" in a state where that's such a divisive issue - but not about what we really care about, which is how to reduce crime. You pressed and pressed on those capital gains taxes, but Senators Clinton and Obama were forced to bring up the housing crisis on their own initiative.
Instead, you wasted more than half of the debate - a full hour - on tabloid trivia that for the most part wasn't even that interesting, because most of it was infertile ground that has already been covered again and again and again. I'm not saying that Rev. Wright and Bosnia sniper fire and "bitter" were never newsworthy - I myself wrote about all of these for the Philadelphia Daily News or my Attytood blog, back when they were more relevant - but the questions were stale yet clearly intended to gin up controversy (they didn't, by the way, other than the controversy over you.) The final questions of that section, asking Obama whether he thought Rev. Wright "loved America" and then suggesting that Obama himself is somehow a hater of the American flag, or worse, were flat-out repulsive.
Are you even thinking when simply echo some of the vilest talking points from far-right talk radio? What are actually getting at - do you honestly believe that someone with a solid track record as a lawmaker in a Heartland state which elected him to the U.S. Senate, who is now seeking to make some positive American history as our first black president, is somehow un-American, or unpatriotic? Does that even make any sense? Question his policies, or question his leadership. Because that is your job as a journalist. But don't insult our intelligence by questioning his patriotism.
Here's a question for you, George. Is it true that yesterday you appeared on the radio with conservative talk radio host Sean Hannity, and that you said you were "taking notes" when he urged you to ask a question about Obama's supposed ties to a former member of the Weather Underground - which in fact you did. With all the fabulous resources of ABC News at your disposal, is that an appropriate way for a supposed journalist to come up with debate questions, by pandering to divisive radio shows?
And Charlie...could you be any more out of touch with your viewers? Most people aren't millionaires like you, and if Pennsylvanians are losing sleep over economic matters, it is not over whether the capital gains tax will go back up again. I was a little shocked when you pressed and pressed on that back-burner issue and left almost no time for high gas prices, but then I learned tonight that you did the same thing in the last debate, that you fretted over that middle-class family that made $200,000 a year. Charlie, the nicest way that I can put this is that you need to get out more.
But I'm not ready to make nice. What I just watched was an outrage. As a journalist, you appeared to confirm all of the worst qualities that cause people to hold our profession in such low esteem, especially your obsession with cornering the candidates with lame "trick" questions and your complete lack of interest or concern about substance - or about the American people, or the state of our nation. You embarassed some good people who work at ABC News - for example, the journalists who worked hard to break this story just last week - and you embarassed yourselves. The millions of people who watched the debate were embarassed, too - at the state of our political discourse, and what it has finally become, at long last.
Quickly, a word to any and all of my fellow journalists who happen to read this open letter. This. Must . Stop. Tonight, if possible. I thought that we had hit rock bottom in March 2003, when we failed to ask the tough questions in the run-up to the Iraq war. But this feels even lower. We need to pick ourselves up, right now, and start doing our job - to take a deep breath and remind ourselves of what voters really need to know, and how we get there, that's it's not all horserace and "gotcha." Although, to be blunt, I would also urge the major candidates in 2012 to agree only to debates that are organized by the League of Women Voters, with citizen moderators and questioners. Because we have proven without a doubt in 2008 that working journalists don't deserve to be the debate "deciders."
Charlie, I'm going to sign off this letter the way that you always sign off the news, that "I hope you had a great day."
Because America just had a horrible night.
4/13/2008
Mark Our Calendars
Moore County Mixed Paper Recycle dates: May 3, July 12
Shredded paper,junk mail, phone books, Christmas cards, gift-wrap, newspapers, mags, shiny ads, cardboard, cereal boxes, AND batteries.
9--3:00, Gas Station near The Fresh Market
sponsors: Keep Moore County Beautiful, League of Women Voters of MC
Shredded paper,junk mail, phone books, Christmas cards, gift-wrap, newspapers, mags, shiny ads, cardboard, cereal boxes, AND batteries.
9--3:00, Gas Station near The Fresh Market
sponsors: Keep Moore County Beautiful, League of Women Voters of MC
10/01/2007
Three Candidate Forums
Here are the details on all three candidate forums that the League of
Women Voters of Moore County is organizing or playing a part in. As
you can see the forums are in Southern Pines on Oct. 2, Pinehurst on
Oct. 16 and Whispering Pines on Oct. 18. Election Day is Tuesday,
November 6. (Below are details about One Stop registration, which
is during the same schedule as One Stop voting.)
1. League of Women Voters, So. Pines Civic Club, Save our Sandhills,
So. Pines Business Association, So. Pines Neighborhood Assn. and West
So. Pines Civic Club is organizing a candidate forum for Southern
Pines Mayor and Town Council candidates and presentations on the
School and Community College bond issue. Tues., Oct 2, 6:30 to 9:15
at the So. Pines Elementary School, 255 S. May Street. The candidates
for Mayor of Southern Pines are Mike Haney, Greg L. (Manimal)
Prochaska, Jeffrey A. Sheer, Chris Smithson and David Woodruff. The
Mayor has a 4 year commitment. The Primary for Mayor Candidates is
Oct 9. The candidates for Town Council are Baxter L. Clement,
Marquita K. Daniels, Abigail R. Dowd, and Fred C. Walden. The public
will chose two Town Council candidates for a term of 4 years.
2. The League of Women Voters of Moore County will sponsor a candidate
forum, for the Pinehurst Mayor and Council positions. Date: Tuesday,
Oct. 16, 7 to 9 PM at the Pinehurst Village Hall Assembly room.
George P. Lane, Douglas A. Lapins, and John M. Marcum are candidates
for Mayor. The current mayor is not up for reelection. Judith L.
(Judy) Borden, Virginia F. (Ginsey) Fallon (incumbent), Andrew H.
(Andy) Thomas and Joan H. Thurman are running for two seats on the
Village Council. Both jobs are a four year commitment.
3. The League of Women Voters is sponsoring a candidate forum for two
seats on the Whispering Pines Village Council, in the Council Room, on
Thursday, Oct. 18 from 7 to 9 Pm. The candidates are Molly B. Boggis,
Lynn R. Crawford, Robert C. (Skip) Gebhardt and Carl E. Lanning. The
term of a Council member is four years.
Per the web site of Moore County Board of Elections: "A North Carolina
resident who is qualified to vote but who misses the 25-day deadline
for voter registration may register and vote at a One-Stop Site during
the One-Stop Absentee Voting period. The One-Stop Voting period begins
the 3rd Thursday before an Election and ends no later than 1:00pm on
the last Saturday (Nov. 3) before the Election (Nov. 6).
The process is sometimes referred to as "Same-Day Registration," but
it is important to recognize that it is NOT permitted on Election Day
itself.
To use this process, a citizen must (1) go to a One-Stop Voting Site
in the county of residence during the One Stop Absentee Voting period,
(2) fill out a voter registration application, and (3) provide proof
of residency by showing the elections official an appropriate form of
identification with the citizen's current name and current address.
The new registrant may vote ONLY at a One-Stop Absentee Voting Site in
the county of registration during One-Stop Absentee Voting period and
NOT on Election Day."
Women Voters of Moore County is organizing or playing a part in. As
you can see the forums are in Southern Pines on Oct. 2, Pinehurst on
Oct. 16 and Whispering Pines on Oct. 18. Election Day is Tuesday,
November 6. (Below are details about One Stop registration, which
is during the same schedule as One Stop voting.)
1. League of Women Voters, So. Pines Civic Club, Save our Sandhills,
So. Pines Business Association, So. Pines Neighborhood Assn. and West
So. Pines Civic Club is organizing a candidate forum for Southern
Pines Mayor and Town Council candidates and presentations on the
School and Community College bond issue. Tues., Oct 2, 6:30 to 9:15
at the So. Pines Elementary School, 255 S. May Street. The candidates
for Mayor of Southern Pines are Mike Haney, Greg L. (Manimal)
Prochaska, Jeffrey A. Sheer, Chris Smithson and David Woodruff. The
Mayor has a 4 year commitment. The Primary for Mayor Candidates is
Oct 9. The candidates for Town Council are Baxter L. Clement,
Marquita K. Daniels, Abigail R. Dowd, and Fred C. Walden. The public
will chose two Town Council candidates for a term of 4 years.
2. The League of Women Voters of Moore County will sponsor a candidate
forum, for the Pinehurst Mayor and Council positions. Date: Tuesday,
Oct. 16, 7 to 9 PM at the Pinehurst Village Hall Assembly room.
George P. Lane, Douglas A. Lapins, and John M. Marcum are candidates
for Mayor. The current mayor is not up for reelection. Judith L.
(Judy) Borden, Virginia F. (Ginsey) Fallon (incumbent), Andrew H.
(Andy) Thomas and Joan H. Thurman are running for two seats on the
Village Council. Both jobs are a four year commitment.
3. The League of Women Voters is sponsoring a candidate forum for two
seats on the Whispering Pines Village Council, in the Council Room, on
Thursday, Oct. 18 from 7 to 9 Pm. The candidates are Molly B. Boggis,
Lynn R. Crawford, Robert C. (Skip) Gebhardt and Carl E. Lanning. The
term of a Council member is four years.
Per the web site of Moore County Board of Elections: "A North Carolina
resident who is qualified to vote but who misses the 25-day deadline
for voter registration may register and vote at a One-Stop Site during
the One-Stop Absentee Voting period. The One-Stop Voting period begins
the 3rd Thursday before an Election and ends no later than 1:00pm on
the last Saturday (Nov. 3) before the Election (Nov. 6).
The process is sometimes referred to as "Same-Day Registration," but
it is important to recognize that it is NOT permitted on Election Day
itself.
To use this process, a citizen must (1) go to a One-Stop Voting Site
in the county of residence during the One Stop Absentee Voting period,
(2) fill out a voter registration application, and (3) provide proof
of residency by showing the elections official an appropriate form of
identification with the citizen's current name and current address.
The new registrant may vote ONLY at a One-Stop Absentee Voting Site in
the county of registration during One-Stop Absentee Voting period and
NOT on Election Day."
4/29/2007
Volunteer to Recyle at Women's Golf Tourney, Sou. Pines, NC
Keep Moore County Beautiful and League of Women Voters present
Big Recycling News!
For the first time ever, there will be recycling at the Women’s US Open – thanks to David Benne of Pinehurst Championship Management, and Betse Hamilton of the US Golf Association.
The Open runs from Monday, June 25 through Sunday July 1, at Pine Needles.
If you want to support recycling J or to see the golf, you can sign up to be a recycling volunteer –working 3 hours and receiving a full day’s pass to the golf for that day.
Help!! There are 88 slots to fill!
The Open runs from Monday, June 25 through Sunday July 1, at Pine Needles.
If you want to support recycling J or to see the golf, you can sign up to be a recycling volunteer –working 3 hours and receiving a full day’s pass to the golf for that day.
Help!! There are 88 slots to fill!
Sign up only if you feel sure that you can make the date- as we will not have a huge group to fall back on for substituting. Schedules will be determined by June 10. We will try to accommodate your requests.
Each person will be overseeing up to 6 recycle bins – removing anything put in other than plastic bottles and retrieving plastic bottles when practical from rubbish cans. If anything other than plastic bottles gets into the recycle bins—the whole container goes to the rubbish and to the landfill.
The job is to make sure that it goes to recycling.
It requires being on your feet for three hours. There are no uniforms.
There is no heavy lifting. Volunteers will wear a recycle sign to promote recycling and to help the public look for our containers. Remember, this is a first time, and we are not sure of what to expect.
By special arrangement with David White, Assistant Town Manager, Southern Pines will pick up all of the filled bags of recycle.
The three hour shifts are: A) 9-noon; B) noon to 3:00 p.m.; or C) 3:00-6:0 0 p.m.
Information about parking, ID, getting passes, etc. will be provided when assignments are made. Please email, call, or talk with one of the core community contacts listed below.
We are hoping to make this a real community effort of individuals and organizations.
Tell your friends, pass this along, and let us hear from you.
Contacts: Pat / Jon Bolles - 673-397
Yes, I will help RECYCLE David Klauder - 295-3191
At the US Women’s Open KMCB, Joan Neal - 947-3478
At Pine Needles LWV, Dot Greenwood -215-0443
Mon. June 25- Sun. July 1 dottom@pinehurst.net
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