Friday, March 28, 2014

FEDERAL MAGISTRATE DECLARES NORTH CAROLINA LEGISLATORS DO NOT HAVE BLANKET IMMUNITY

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                     Contact: Jennifer Farmer, 202-487-0967

March 28, 2014                                               Email: jfarmer@advancementproject.org

FEDERAL MAGISTRATE DECLARES NORTH CAROLINA LEGISLATORS DO NOT HAVE BLANKET IMMUNITY TO CONCEAL INFORMATION PERTAINING TO VOTER SUPPRESSION MEASURE, WHICH STANDS TO BLOCK MILLIONS FROM THE POLLS

Magistrate's Order Means Legislators Cannot Throw Rocks, Then Hide their Hands

RALEIGH, NC - Yesterday, U.S. Magistrate J. Elizabeth Peake declared North Carolina lawmakers could not assert blanket legislative privilege to conceal their communications and motives for passing the most discriminatory and regressive voter suppression law in the country. The North Carolina NAACP State Conference, which is represented by lawyers with the national civil-rights group Advancement Project, as well as North Carolina Attorney Irv Joyner and others, issued the following statement in response:

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

UNC Center for Civil Rights to Hold a National Commission on Voting Rights Fact-Finding Hearing

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 26, 2014

For more information: Atty. Jamie Phillips Cole, Public Policy Coordinator, 919.682.4700

Sarah Bufkin, Media Coordinator, 404.285.3413

The NC NAACP and the Forward Together Moral Movement Join with the Lawyers' Committee and the UNC Center for Civil Rights to Hold a National Commission on Voting Rights Fact-Finding Hearing March 28 to Examine North Carolina's Voting Rights Record

Friday, March 28, 2014

9 am - 5:30 pm

OIC of Rocky Mount

402 East Virginia St., Rocky Mount, NC 27802

ROCKY MOUNT - To further understand and document instances of voter suppression and inequities in electoral administration, the North Carolina NAACP, the UNC Center for Civil Rights, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and other coalition partners will organize a National Commission on Voting Rights fact-finding hearing on Friday, March 28 in Rocky Mount, NC. Advocates for simplified, unfettered voting, community leaders, voters, scholars and NAACP members from across the state will testify about voter discrimination and election administration issues in North Carolina.

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

National Commission on Voting Rights

- Fact-Finding Hearing-

Friday, March 28

9 am - 5:30 pm

OIC of Rocky Mount

402 East Virginia St.

Rocky Mount, NC 27802

Last year, extremists in the General Assembly passed HB 589, a blatant attempt to suppress the vote of minorities, the poor, women, students and the elderly.

Tillis Claim the Liberal media is distorting his Records

From Tillis Facebook page,

The liberal media, national Democrats, and my political opponents continue to launch false attacks and distortions of my conservative record to try to slow down our building momentum. Please be sure to sign up here and learn the facts without the media filter: http://thomtillis.com/learn-the-facts-without-the-media-filter/

The get this info you have to sign up for it.. I.E newsletter..

His Voting Record,

GetEqual Statement on the Passing of Fred Phelps Sr.

For Immediate Release: March 20, 2014

Media Contact: Heather Cronk, heather@getequal.org, 202-491-7240

GetEQUAL Statement on Passing of Fred Phelps, Sr.

WASHINGTON, DC — Early this morning, Fred Phelps Sr., founder of Westboro Baptist Church, died in hospice care. GetEQUAL — a national social justice organization working toward the full equality of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) Americans — issued the following statement in response to this news:

Fred Phelps Sr. passed away this morning, and we lift up his humanity especially as we know that his family is grieving his loss. Mr. Phelps caused very real pain and trauma for thousands of Americans, especially for those in the LGBTQ community but also for the families of fallen service members. It is our hope that those hurt by his words and actions will find healing. It is our hope that his family will one day find space in their hearts to recognize the humanity of LGBTQ individuals. And it is our hope that people across the United States commit or re-commit themselves to working toward equality and justice for all as a lasting legacy of Mr. Phelps’ life.

There will always be those who are so in pain themselves that they feel compelled to inflict pain on others. We re-commit ourselves today to loving those who hate us. We re-commit ourselves today to seeing the humanity in those who cannot or will not see it in us. And we re-commit ourselves today to working toward an America that is free of that pain — an America in which LGBTQ folks can live and love openly. On this day, we stand with our LGBTQ sisters and brothers across the country to say, with certainty, that we see that day over the horizon and that we will work until our hands bleed to bring about that day with a deep and abiding urgency.

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Burr, Casey: Leaders Reid and McConnell Sign On As Cosponsors of ABLE Act

March 24, 2014 - 5:06 PM

 

Senate Leaders sign on, greatly increasing the chance for passage

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Richard Burr (R-NC) and Bob Casey (D-PA) announced that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) have cosponsored their bill, the Achieving a Better Life Experience Act (ABLE Act – S. 313/H.R. 647).  This legislation would provide an improved quality of life for individuals with disabilities through tax-advantaged savings accounts. The legislation now has the support of 68 Senators and 345 members of the House, making it one of the most widely supported bills in all of Congress. Having leaders Reid and McConnell back this bill adds to the growing momentum to pass the legislation this year.

Saturday, March 22, 2014

Ken Spaulding for NC Governor

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Raleigh-Apex NAACP to Hold Community Forum

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE,

March 19, 2014

For more information, contact: Rev. Dr. Portia W. Rochelle, Raleigh-Apex NAACP President,

919.662.5006

For media assistance, contact: Sarah Bufkin, NC NAACP Media Coordinator, 404.285.3413

Raleigh-Apex NAACP to Hold Community Forum on Sunday, March 23 to Educate about Traumatic Rollback of Voting Rights Both in North Carolina and Nationally

Sunday, March 23

4 pm

Martin St. Baptist Church - Johnson Building

1001 E. Martin St., Raleigh, NC 27601

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Staged Reading of Out in Left Field

A Staged Reading of Out in Left Field, a play by Lela Chesson, will be directed by Marilynn Anselmi on Saturday, March 29, 7 p.m., at Nash Arts Center in Nashville. Donations to PFLAG-RM ($5 suggested) will fund scholarships for area youth. The public is invited.
Please invite your friends and family!

News Conference Wednesday Morning to Announce Moral Monday Protest

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 18, 2014

 

For more information: William Jones, Statesville NAACP President, (925) 989-8619

  

For media assistance: Gay Shaver, (704) 876-6784

 

 

The Statesville and the South Iredell NAACP Branches and Their Partners Will Hold a News Conference Wednesday Morning to Announce Moral Monday Protest

 

Wed., March 19, 2014

11:00 am

Steps of Statesville City Hall

227 South Center St,

Statesville, NC 28687

 

STATESVILLE - The Statesville and South Iredell NAACP branches and their Iredell County partners will hold a news conference Wednesday to announce the Forward Together Movement's Moral Monday demonstration on Monday, March 24 in Statesville to protest Gov. Pat McCrory's and our local legislators' policies, which are hurting our state's most vulnerable people.

 

Gov. McCrory is slated to speak at the Iredell County Chamber of Commerce's annual awards dinner at the Statesville Civic Center on March 24. The event is sponsored in part by Duke Energy, which employed the Governor for 29 years before he took office last year. Duke Energy is responsible for the toxic coal ash spill in the Dan River last month.

 

In front of the Civic Center, where the Chamber Awards Banquet will be held, the NC NAACP and Forward Together Movement has called together North Carolinians of all colors, classes, creeds, sexual identities, ages and political parties to protest the deluge of extremist policies that Gov. McCrory, Speaker Thom Tillis, Senate Leader Phil Berger and their extremist colleagues have promoted in the past 14 months. In particular, the demonstration will examine the records of the Iredell County legislators to make the people aware of how their elected representatives are voting on these destructive bills.

 

On Wednesday, March 19, leaders from the NC NAACP along with the South Iredell and Statesville branches will meet with news media at 11 a.m. on the Statesville City Hall steps to describe the purpose and plan of this Moral Monday protest.

 

WHO:             The Statesville NAACP, South Iredell NAACP and coalition partners

 

WHAT:          News conference

 

WHEN:          Wednesday, March 19 at 11 am

 

WHERE:       Steps of the Statesville City Hall

                       227 South Center St

                       Statesville, NC 28687

 

 

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Rocky Mount Pflag to host meeting

Join Pflag for their regularly schedule monthly meeting at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 516 N Church St.

Tonight meeting will feature two special guests,

Jaide D and Jen Jones.

Jaide  was a contestant in Martin Luther King Jr Oratorical Contest and spoke on LGBT Rights.

Jen, Pflag longtime friend from Equality NC,will give an update on what’s happening in NC to Advance equality.

Meeting Starts at 6pm. !

Sunday, March 16, 2014

Fred Phelps near death via (@tlrd)

Towleroad (@tlrd)
Westboro Baptist Church Pastor Fred Phelps 'on the Edge of Death' According to Son http://t.co/5Ledfihjp7 http://t.co/1qWuCAHC5U

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Thursday, March 13, 2014

Moral Monday Town Hall Next Monday to Highlight Dangers Present in Coal Ash

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 13, 2014

For more information: Atty. Jamie Phillips Cole, Public Policy Coordinator, 919.682.4700

Sarah Bufkin, Media Coordinator, 404.285.3413

The North Carolina NAACP and the Forward Together Moral Movement to Hold a Moral Monday Town Hall Next Monday to Highlight Dangers Present in Coal Ash

Monday, March 17

6 pm - 7:30 pm

United Church Ministries

211 N. Oakland St, Eden, NC 27288

EDEN, NC - Recognizing the grave risks that coal ash poses to our health and our environment, the NC NAACP and Forward Together Moral Movement will join with environmental and health experts to better understand and educate ourselves about the harm caused by the Dan River spill and by Duke Energy's other coal ash ponds at a Moral Monday Town Hall held next Monday, March 17 in Eden, NC.

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Reps. Guthrie, Butterfield and Young introduce bipartisan bill to increase access to medical care

03/11/14

WASHINGTON, DC -- In a bipartisan effort, Reps. Brett Guthrie (R-KY), G.K. Butterfield (D-NC) and Todd Young (R-IN) today introduced legislation (H.R. 4190) that will allow Medicare reimbursement for certain pharmacist services in medically underserved communities.

Call for Federal Voter Protections and to Celebrate a Common Commitment to Voting Rights

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 12, 2014

For more information: Atty. Jamie Phillips Cole, Public Policy Coordinator, 919.682.4700

Sarah Bufkin, Media Coordinator, 404.285.3413

The North Carolina NAACP and the Forward Together Movement Joined the Alabama-Based Saving OurSelves Coalition Today in Raleigh Yesterday to Call for Federal Voter Protections and to Celebrate a Common Commitment to Voting Rights

RALEIGH - The North Carolina NAACP and the Forward Together Moral Movement joined together with the Alabama-based Saving OurSelves Coalition to hold a rally and press conference yesterday in Raleigh calling upon Congress to restore the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to its full strength.

The Forward Together Movement welcomed the SOS Coalition yesterday afternoon as its Caravan for Democracy makes its way from Selma, Ala. to Washington DC, leaving 49 years almost to the day after civil rights leaders were beaten for daring to organize for voting rights in the Jim Crow South. Many of the assembled carried signs that memorialized the efforts and sacrifices made at Bloody Sunday in March 1965, sacrifices that spurred Congress to act on the mass disenfranchisement of African Americans by passing the Voting Rights Act later that summer.

Monday, March 10, 2014

Voting Rights Rally Tomorrow in Raleigh

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 10, 2014

For more information: Atty. Jamie Phillips Cole, Public Policy Coordinator, 919.682.4700

Sarah Bufkin, Media Coordinator, 404.285.3413

REMINDER:

The North Carolina NAACP and the Forward Together Moral Movement to Co-Host Voting Rights Rally Tomorrow in Raleigh with the Saving OurSelves Coalition

Tomorrow at 4 pm

State Capitol Grounds, South Side

One Edenton St, Raleigh, NC

A version of this release was sent out on March 7.

RALEIGH - The NC NAACP-led Forward Together Moral Movement will rally outside the state capitol building in Raleigh, N.C., on Tuesday, March 11 to draw attention to the massive rollback of voting rights pushed by state lawmakers, including extremists in the North Carolina General Assembly, in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to gut the Voting Rights Act as well as to challenge the bill recently introduced that would reinstate the federal voter protections available under the VRA for some states but not all.

Saturday, March 8, 2014

Bobi Gregory for North Carolina House

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

February 28, 2014

Barbara D. “Bobi” Gregory, a retired art teacher from Wilson County Schools and a minister’s wife, filed today for the North Carolina House in District 8.  As of the end of the candidate filing period at 12pm noon, Mrs. Gregory was the only Democratic candidate and, thus, the Democratic Nominee for the North Carolina House in District 8.  Gregory’s nearly 40 year career as an educator in public schools around the nation led her to the decision to file for office today.

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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

ICYMI: 27 Dems support GOP bill to delay ObamaCare Penalty

By Pete Kasperowicz

The House voted Wednesday to delay tax penalties for failing to buy health insurance this year under ObamaCare, a vote that reflects growing Republican frustration with President Obama's selective implementation of the law.

Members voted 250-160 in favor of the bill, which attracted the support of 27 Democrats.

Read the story here.

Thom Tillis need to get a clue..

tillis-right-hereFrom Thom’s Facebook page,

Kay Hagan refuses to say no to the President. Today, despite several of her Democratic colleagues abandoning Obama, Kay Hagan voted to confirm one of his nominees to the Department of Justice who was a vocal advocate for a convicted cop killer. This is reprehensible and a clear sign that North Carolina needs a new Senator.

Yes, we might need a new Senator, yes Kay has made some huge mistakes, however at least she doesn’t that we should do away with a minimum wage for workers, and she not in the pockets of ALEC or POPE..

Thom voted to restrict voting rights for all NC citizens. restrict a women rights to Abortions. He voted yes to Repeal the Racial justice Act. Voted to Prohibit Medicaid Expansion.

Since 2011-2014 going by Ballopedia Tillis hasn’t been appointed to any standing committee.

Let’s not forget how he feels about Moral Monday’s

"Moral Mondays" are for whining losers who oppose GOP agenda. (Dec 2013)

So just who does Thom Tillis Serve??? It surely isn’t the citizens of NC

Tillis has not been getting a lot of great press lately:

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/...

It was that pressure that brought him to Charlotte last month for a fundraiser at Myers Park Country Club. While he was on the road to Charlotte, the House he presides over was vigorously debating an abortion-related bill.

Besides missing important House business, Tillis’ moonlighting has the look of the pay-to-play politics that Republicans decried among Democrats for so long. A superPAC for Tillis raised $70,000 from George A. Sywassink, R. Doyle Parrish and W.G. Champion Mitchell, newly released records show. Tillis’ House named all three to the UNC Board of Governors recently, including Sywassink after declaring there had been a vote-tallying error the first time around.

State law bars legislators from raising money from lobbyists during the legislative session, but the ban doesn’t apply to federal candidates like Tillis. So he can attend a fundraiser hosted by Royce Everette, a major consumer finance lender, days after the legislature approved a bill raising interest rates and fees for Everette’s industry.

He has shown he can’t give his undivided attention to the N.C. House and the U.S. Senate at the same time. He should give up his Speaker’s gavel, resign from his House seat and give his full energy to his Senate bid, unencumbered by such distractions as running the state. - Charlotte Observer, 7/18/13

 

So it's no wonder analysts would consider Tillis a weak candidate.  But as vulnerable of a candidate Tillis might be, he will still be heavily finance by Pope, ALEC, the Koch Brothers and every other right-wing Super PAC.  The GOP wants Hagan's seat and they'll spend big to lie and distort her image.  But while Tillis is off focusing on a higher office, Hagan is looking out for homeless veterans:

North Carolina NAACP Joins with Environmental Justice Partners Call on Gov. Pat McCrory and Duke Energy to Come Clean on Coal Ash

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 5, 2014

 

For more information: Atty. Jamie Phillips Cole, Public Policy Coordinator, 919.682.4700 

Sarah Bufkin, Media Coordinator, 404.285.3413

  

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North Carolina NAACP Joins with Environmental Justice Partners Call on Gov. Pat McCrory and Duke Energy to Come Clean on Coal Ash

Rally and Press Conference

Today at 4:45 pm

Across from the Governor's Mansion

200 N. Blount St, Raleigh

 

RALEIGH - Toxic coal ash from one of Duke Energy's 32 coal-ash lagoons in North Carolina has poisoned the Dan River, coating the riverbed with sludge and threatening wildlife and drinking water alike. The arsenic-laced coal ash ponds, like many other heavily polluted sites, disproportionately affect poor and minority communities across our state who have less resources to oppose them. Now the North Carolina NAACP and its environmental partners in the Forward Together Moral Movement have declared that enough is enough - it is the time to finally come clean.

 

 Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, president of the NC NAACP, will join speakers from the Forward Together coalition partners at a rally and press conference today outside the Governor's Mansion in Raleigh to call for Gov. McCrory and his administration to meaningfully demonstrate their commitment to our environment, to our health and to transparent government.

 

 

WHO:            Sponsored by the NC NAACP, NC WARN, Greenpeace, ProgressNC                              Action, Action NC, Clean Water NC, North Carolina Students for Climate                          Action, the Roger-Eubanks Neighborhood Assocation and a coalition of                                concerned environmental, social justice and good government activists

 

WHAT:          Rally and press conference

 

WHERE:        Across the street from the Governor's Mansion

                        200 N. Blount St.

                        Raleigh, NC 27601

 

WHEN:          Wed., March 5

                        Rally at 4:45 pm

                        Press conference at 5pm

 

  

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Founded in 1909, the NAACP is the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization. Its members throughout the United States and the world are the premier advocates for civil rights in their communities. The NC Conference of NAACP Branches is 70 years old this year and is made up of over 100 Adult, Youth and College NAACP units across the state, convenes more than 160 members of the Historic Thousands on Jones Street (HKonJ) People's Assembly Coalition, and is the architect of the Moral Monday & Forward Together Movement.   

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Why hunters, why?

If you must hunt and kill, please dispose of the remains correctly,, Just don’t dump them along the roadside..

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Abandoned Barn in Wilson County NC

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I can only guess Climate change is real.

Cause the snakes are COMING OUT to play..

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However this one got ran over..

(photo taken today 3/2/2014)

Saturday, March 1, 2014

Bobi Gregory for North Carolina House

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 28, 2014

Barbara D. “Bobi” Gregory, a retired art teacher from Wilson County Schools and a minister’s wife, filed today for the North Carolina House in District 8. As of the end of the candidate filing period at 12pm noon, Mrs. Gregory was the only Democratic candidate and, thus, the Democratic Nominee for the North Carolina House in District 8. Gregory’s nearly 40 year career as an educator in public schools around the nation led her to the decision to file for office today.

Gregory has called Wilson, North Carolina home since June of 1990, when her husband, the Rev. Henry Duval “Greg” Gregory IV answered a call to serve Covenant Presbyterian Church on Tilghman Road. Mrs. Gregory settled into the educator community quickly, becoming not once, but twice both Vice-President and President of the Wilson County NCAE (North Carolina Association of Educators). Gregory retired from Beddingfield High School in June of 2007 after having a career filled with celebration of her students winning awards for their artwork at the local, state and national levels.

Aside from her dedication to the educational success of all students in her classes, Gregory has remained involved in the greater Wilson Community. She has trained as a Guardian ad Litem to stand with troubled youth in courts in Nash & Wilson counties. She has taught photography in the evening at Wilson Community College. She has also taught Art to students at the Wilson Arts Council. She serves as a Sunday School teacher at her husband’s Macclesfield Presbyterian Church, while still maintaining her membership at First Presbyterian Church of Wilson. Finally, she is currently serving as President of the Democratic Women of Wilson County, having previously served as 1st Vice-President.

To explain the motivation for her run for the North Carolina House, challenging incumbent Representative Susan Martin, Bobi Gregory has released the following statement:

We cannot continue to let someone represent both Pitt and Wilson counties who consistently votes to weaken the exemplary public education system on every level, including the University of North Carolina system. Article 9 of our North Carolina Constitution requires a public education “for all able-bodied children” and requires the existence of a strong public university system. Representative Susan Martin has proven her unconstitutional approach to voting on education by following in lock step with her Republican Party’s leadership in the General Assembly.

In addition to her votes on education, Martin voted with the radical right-wing GOP leadership on repealing the Racial Justice Act, limiting the unemployment assistance for hard-working families trying to make ends meet and refusing federal funds for Medicaid expansion to more than 500, 000 North Carolinians. Thank God Rep. Susan Martin and her radical right-wing GOP colleagues in the North Carolina General Assembly were not successful in threatening our religious freedoms as well.

There is no denying who funds my opponent’s stay in the General Assembly. The Koch Brothers, ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council), Art Pope and conservative super-PACs have a vested interest in a North Carolina representative who will consistently vote against the working families and middle class of North Carolina, while giving unnecessary tax breaks to the top North Carolina wage earners.

I decided to get in this race for North Carolina House to give the people of District 8 a better voice. I ask the voters of Pitt and Wilson counties to take a look at my candidacy and give me the honor of being that better voice. I ask you all for your vote.



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