Showing posts with label civil rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label civil rights. Show all posts
10/10/2009
8/23/2009
Guns of August vs. Democracy
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/22/frank-rich-guns-of-august_n_266235.html
7/15/2009
6/25/2009
We Knew It Was Bad, But. . .
CEO vs. Average Worker Pay - Major Economies
Japan 11 times more
Germany 12 times
France 15 times
Italy 20 times
Canada 20 times
South Africa 21 times
Britain 22 times
Hong Kong 41 times
Mexico 47 times
America 475 times
Japan 11 times more
Germany 12 times
France 15 times
Italy 20 times
Canada 20 times
South Africa 21 times
Britain 22 times
Hong Kong 41 times
Mexico 47 times
America 475 times
5/11/2009
1/27/2009
Civil Disobedience in Climate Change Fight
In Climate Fight, a Time For Civil Disobedience?
By Patty Henetz, Salt Lake Tribune, January 23, 2009.
"Al Gore... in September called for moral lawbreaking.
'If you're a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration,' Gore told the Clinton Global Initiative gathering to loud applause, according to Reuters news service.
Since then, author and environmentalist Bill McKibben and poet Wendell Berry have chimed in. Last month, they wrote an open letter, which has circulated widely on the Web, urging mass civil disobedience against coal in March...
Heeding such calls, organizers are mobilizing for a mass act of nonviolent civil disobedience March 2 to protest coal-fired power plants and the damage industrial pollution has caused to the planet's climate.
'We're hoping and preparing for thousands,' said Matt Leonard, the Greenpeace coordinator for the event. 'It will certainly be the largest such action on climate change in U.S. history. We hope it will be the first of many.'
Protesters will gather at the [coal-fired] Capital Power Plant in Washington -- source of heat and refrigeration for the entire Capitol complex -- walk on to the property, sit down and thereby break the law." For more info go to CapitolClimateAction.com.
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"Let’s all of us make sure that when we look back, in decades to come, we can say:
We saw the threat.
We responded to the challenge.
We did our bit."
Ed Milliband
By Patty Henetz, Salt Lake Tribune, January 23, 2009.
"Al Gore... in September called for moral lawbreaking.
'If you're a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration,' Gore told the Clinton Global Initiative gathering to loud applause, according to Reuters news service.
Since then, author and environmentalist Bill McKibben and poet Wendell Berry have chimed in. Last month, they wrote an open letter, which has circulated widely on the Web, urging mass civil disobedience against coal in March...
Heeding such calls, organizers are mobilizing for a mass act of nonviolent civil disobedience March 2 to protest coal-fired power plants and the damage industrial pollution has caused to the planet's climate.
'We're hoping and preparing for thousands,' said Matt Leonard, the Greenpeace coordinator for the event. 'It will certainly be the largest such action on climate change in U.S. history. We hope it will be the first of many.'
Protesters will gather at the [coal-fired] Capital Power Plant in Washington -- source of heat and refrigeration for the entire Capitol complex -- walk on to the property, sit down and thereby break the law." For more info go to CapitolClimateAction.com.
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"Let’s all of us make sure that when we look back, in decades to come, we can say:
We saw the threat.
We responded to the challenge.
We did our bit."
Ed Milliband
8/26/2008
8/21/2008
2/04/2007
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
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
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