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80,000 At NC Protest–4 Times Last Year–Kochs Trying To Change Dialogue (video and pictures)
PHOTO CREDIT: Planned Parenthood
The NAACP estimates that 80,000 to 100,000 people gathered outside the North Carolina State Capitol Saturday morning for the Moral March in Raleigh (official attendance numbers have not been released yet). The march was the culmination of a year of Moral Monday protests at the State Capitol organized by The Forward Together Movement, a “fusion mov ement” of over 150 groups fighting for mostly progressive causes in North Carolina.” MOREHERE
Somewhere between 80 to 100,000 people from 32 states turned out to protest four years of drastic state Republican initiatives in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Saturday.
The “Moral March on Raleigh,” organized by Historic Thousands on Jones Street (HKonJ) and the North Carolina NAACP, marched from Shaw University to the state capitol to push back against the “immoral and unconstitutional policies” of Republican Gov. Pat McCrory during the 2013 NC General Assembly session. Since North Carolina Republicans took over both legislative chambers in 2010, legislators have eliminated a host of programs and raised taxes on the bottom 80 percent, repealed a tax credit for 900,000 working families, enforced voter suppression efforts, blocked Medicaid coverage, cut pre-Kindergarten funding, cut federal unemployment benefits, and gave itself the authority to intervene in abortion lawsuits. MOREHERE
Right wing millionaires trying to descredit vitong rights movement–posting mug shots and arrest records of protesters.
Divert, distract and divide–DON’T FALL FOR IT!
Yes the Protested the requirement that you need an ID to Vote! Saying it “restricts peoples ability to vote”. However they required those who were going to protest to bring their IDs with them so they could know who they are. (after all got to hit them up for money later).
But you do see the Irony, There protesting the requirement of having an ID to vote, but ask for you ID to protest. ROFLMAO ! ! ! ! !
I suspect that if it was a dem gov they would be happy happy… republicans raise taxes, but dems just remove tax cuts… same ol song.