FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
31 December 2012
For More Information: Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, President, 919-394-8137
Mrs. Amina J. Turner, Executive Director, 919-682-4700
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Monday, December 31, 2012
Saturday, December 29, 2012
The Wilmington Ten Are Innocent and Should be Pardoned
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 29 December 2012 For More Information: Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, President, 919-394-8137 Mrs. Amina J. Turner, Executive Director, 919-682-4700 ...
Friday, December 28, 2012
One of NC new stupid Laws, which helps Big Oil
Did you know that stealing used restaurant grease will be a felony starting Jan. 1? I ask what idiot wrote this bill? Torbett said that grease haulers and restaurants came to him with the grease theft problem addressed in HB 512. But law enforcement hasn't always taken the crime seriously, he said. Really, just who was doing the bitching about lost of used grease?? In North Carolina, small bio fuels producers used leftover grease to create biodiesel...
Friday, December 21, 2012
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi nothing more than a two-faced bitch
Yes - she actually said this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/19/nancy-pelosi-social-security_n_2333285.html.It's time to give Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi a call: http://bit.ly/callpelosiIt's time to send your Congressperson a message: http://bit.ly/pledgetoprimary time for her to go.....
Friday, December 14, 2012
Something to Think About
If roads were collapsing all across the United States, killing dozens of drivers, we would surely see that as a moment to talk about what we could do to keep roads from collapsing. If terrorists were detonating bombs in port after port, you can be sure Congress would be working to upgrade the nation’s security measures. If a plague was ripping through communities, public-health officials would be working feverishly to contain it.Only with gun violence do we respond to repeated tragedies by saying that mourning is acceptable but discussing how to...
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Fake Subs for Ads.. for Subway
as a once employee of Subway, that only way you get a Steak sub to look alike the photo is by getting double meat, which cost more.....
Friday, November 30, 2012
WTF: TeaBagger Congresswoman Renee Ellmers want's to Honor NC biggest Bigot and Complete Asshole Jessie Helms
Can you actually believe this shit, Honoring Senator Jesse Helms This week, I was proud to submit H.R. 6607 - a bill to name the Century Post Office in Raleigh as the 'Jesse Helms Federal Building and United States Courthouse'. Senator Helms was an important advocate and representative of North Carolina throughout his 20 years of service in the United States Senate. This bill will ensure that the work he accomplished for the people of North Carolina...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
New Law Criminalizing Online Student Speech Takes Effect Dec. 1
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASENOVEMBER 28, 2012 ACLU-NC Says the First-in-the-Nation Law is Misguided and Chills Free Speech Group Calls on Students Charged Under the Law to Contact ACLU-NC Office RALEIGH – A new state law, the 2012 School Violence Prevention Act, that will be the first in the nation to impose criminal sanctions on public school students who use computers with the “intent to intimidate or torment” school employees will go into effect Dec. 1. The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina opposes this law because it is too broad,...
HRC's New Municipal Equality Index Details the State of LGBT Equality in U.S. Cities
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 27, 2012HRC's New Municipal Equality Index Details the State of LGBT Equality in U.S. CitiesFirst of its kind nationwide evaluation of LGBT inclusion in municipal law and policy finds cities need to do more to protect LGBT employees and citizensWASHINGTON — Many U.S. cities lack sufficient protections for LGBT people, even in some the “bluest” states with progressive reputations. That's according to a new report by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the educational arm of the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
It had to be a Senator Family member to get a investigation in to who TSA threat people who fly..
From Facebook, Filming Cops,
TEXAS -- TSA pulled down a 17-yr-old girl's dress to expose her breasts. Since she is a relative of a U.S. Congressman, a federal investigation has begun into t
he incident.Representative Ralph Hall of Texas said his gran-niece, 17, was 'badly mistreated' when she had her dress pulled down during security screening at an airport.TSA agent pulls down dress to expose the breasts of 17-year-old niece of Congressman...
News Flash, Illinois Supreme Court Rules on Recording Police
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal of a controversial Illinois law prohibiting people from recording police officers on the job. By passing on the issue, the justices left in place a federal appeals court ruling that found that the state's anti-eavesdropping law violates free-speech rights when used against people who audiotape police officers. Court Rules You Can Keep Using Your SmartPhone to Record Police Abuses. -Common DreamsThe Supreme Court has blocked enforcement of an Illinois law that prohibited people from recording...
Monday, November 26, 2012
Equality Federation Announces Fran Hutchins Hire
Dear Friends,
Equality Federation is extremely pleased to announce the hiring of Fran Hutchins as the Director of Member and State Services effective December 1st. Fran brings to the Federation more than ten years of experience with progressive non-profit organizations in the fields of LGBT rights, poverty, homelessness, and other social issues, as well as extensive academic research and writing experience.
Fran has worked on several state-level ballot measure campaigns in California and Maine. Most recently, she served as Regional Field Director...
Evidence of Racist Jury Profiling by Wilmington 10
UPDATED ADDRESS CONFIRMED, NC NAACP News Conference Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 10:00 AM State Capitol - Morgan Street Side Raleigh, NC FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 26 November 2012 For ore information: Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, President, 919-394-8137 ...
Tar Heel Worker Campaign
Progress NC is reporting that a behind closed door deal concerning a plan to cut a deal on reforming NC Unemployment Insurance System is underway in the NCGA. The deal is being worked out between legislators and Chamber of Commerce with out any input form Worker Advocates (which mean the employee will get the short end of the stick). Length of time and amount of unemployment in on the chopping block. If you feel that this discussion belongs in the OPEN Forum Please sign the Petition at Tarheelworkers.org, (see below for links) Petition | I am...
Just because they have a badge doesn’t mean they know Everything.
Via Photography isn’t a Crime, Just another Ignorant asshole with a badge who thinks he knows everything, and when that don’t work, just claim the 9/11 law.. Video Description On Thursday, November 14th when filming near the Valero refinery in Manchester TSB organizers were stopped and approached by two officers of the notoriously violent and corrupt Houston Police Department. E.T. Ramirez, badge number 8407 and D. Jimenez, badge number 8105, claimed that it was against the law to film near Valero, but when questioned about which law that...
Monday, November 19, 2012
The Anti-Protest Bill: How Congress Just Took Our Rights Away
HR 347 limits our ability to protest by making "disruptive" behavior a felony. Help us stop it now!
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Friday, November 16, 2012
I think McCain needs to see a Doctor..
Angry White Man needs another job! He clearly is failing in the one he was elected to do....
Email Share, ThinkProgress
By ThinkProgress War Room Today’s Top Three The Progress Report is on hiatus for the rest of November. In the meantime, check out three important posts from ThinkProgress you don’t want to miss today: 1. GOP Rep Admits CIA Approved U.N. Ambassador’s Talking Points On Libya 2. Republican Poll Worker Complains About High Turnout Among ‘People Of Color’ 3. Hostess Blames Union For Bankruptcy After Tripling CEO’s Pay Follow ThinkProgress on Facebook and Twitter...
NC NAACP Post-Election News Conference To Issue Call For Collaboration and Challenge to Govern for the Good of the Whole
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 16 November 2012 For More Information: Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, President, (919) 394-8137 Mrs. Amina J. Turner, Executive Director, (919) 682-4700 For Media Assistance: ...
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Supreme Court Pushes Back DOMA & Prop 8 Cases By Ten Days
An update from AFER: AFER just received word from the U.S. Supreme Court that it will discuss whether to hear AFER’s federal constitutional challenge to California’s Proposition 8 at its private Conference on Friday, November 30. The Court will also consider on that date whether it will hear one or more challenges to the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Both the Prop. 8 case and the DOMA cases had previously been distributed for discussion at the Justices’ November 20 Conference.The updated timeline suggests that we will likely find out...
Saturday, November 10, 2012
It all makes sense now!!!!
Gay marriage and marijuana being legalized on the same day. Leviticus
20:13 - "if a man lays with another man he should be stoned." We've
just be interpreting it wrong all of these years!
from Facebook...
Friday, November 9, 2012
How smart do you have to be to work at Wal-mart
going by the following photos, you don’t have to be smart or able to read as long you can stock items fast.. also by the way, new types of fruits have arrived at Walmart.. (all photos copyrighted to the owner of this blog. come on guys you know you stock these items in the wrong bins.....
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Brian Brown still Claim Americans are still in Favor of one man and one woman marriage.
National Organization for Marriage is having a very bad week. The anti-marriage equality organization poured funds and resources into all four states with same-sex marriage ballot measures - and lost every one fucking one of them. "Our opponents and some in the media will attempt to portray the election results as a changing point in how Americans view gay marriage, but that is not the case. Americans remain strongly in favor of marriage as the...
Ann Coulter on the Election,
"If Mitt Romney cannot win in this economy, then the tipping point has been reached. We have more takers than makers and it’s over. There is no hope. Mitt Romney was the president we needed right now, and I think it is so sad that we are going to be deprived of his brain power, of his skills in turning companies around, turning the Olympics around, his kindness for being able to push conservative ideas on a country that no longer is interested...
Karl Rove Claims Obama Was Suppressed the Votes..
Yea Right, the only folks that were trying to suppressed the Votes were the Bigoted Tea Partiers and the GOP.. Hey Karl get over it.. I’m sure this isn’t the first time you wasted so much money and didn’t get want you wanted.. Mitt Romney lost the election because President Barack Obama engaged in voter suppression, according to Republican political strategist Karl Rove. "He succeeded by suppressing the vote," Rove said in an interview on Fox News with anchor Megyn Kelly on Thursday afternoon, "by saying to people, 'You may not like who I am...
Monday, October 29, 2012
The President On Hurricane Sandy (official transcript)
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ______________________ For Immediate Release October 28, 2012 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON HURRICANE SANDY FEMA Headquarters Washington, D.C. 1:55 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Well, good afternoon, everybody. Obviously, all of us across the country are concerned about the potential impact of Hurricane Sandy. This is a serious and big storm. And my first message is to all the people across the Eastern seaboard, Mid-Atlantic, going north, that you need to take this...
Reselling your stuff make become illegal thanks to the Federal Court and the Supreme Court
Read about the case here, click
Are you in? More than 3,000 sites -- including prominent allies like the Electronic Frontier Foundation -- have signed up to take part in today's day of action. The Supreme Court is hearing that case that will decide if you have the right to resell the things you own.
Ebay, Craigslist, and even the old-fashioned garage sale are under threat.
Sites will be using our ribbons and ball-and-chain icons to sound the alarm about the Kirtsaeng vs John Wiley & Sons case:
The Supreme Court might side with...
Big Oil Buys a Congressman for the rock bottom price of 2.5 mil
On Friday, it was learned that Big Oil giant Chevron wrote a $2.5 million check directly to Speaker Boehner’s Super PAC. It’s likely the largest corporate donation in the history of Super PACs! So I wonder what special requests come tried to the donation.....
Dennis Morgan demands Ann Coulter to apologize for using the R-word (retarded).. Also Please Sign Petition
As the father of a special needs son, I can't tell you how angry it makes me when people use the word "retard" in a derogatory manner. One of the worst offenders is Ann Coulter, who this week referred to President Obama as "the retard" on Twitter. I'm a Republican, and I'm not voting for President Obama, but that doesn't matter. This isn't about Democrats or Republicans, it's about right and wrong. And calling anyone a "retard" or "retarded" is...
Friday, October 26, 2012
Brian Brown full of crap as usual.
Brain Obama doesn’t have the sole power to change or rewrite our Constitution.. You damn dumb ass.. "In just 10 days, you can change history. You could wake up the morning after the election to watch the shocked expression on the faces of all the pundits, the politicians, the out of control judges, and see the headlines: HISTORIC NATIONAL VICTORY FOR MARRIAGE! Just 10 days until the polls close, when America will choose. The future of our country—and also the future of marriage—could be decided for generations to come. Nationally, Americans...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Palin hits the books, and come up with this racist tweet..
I still have to wonder if it was Palin are some poor intern work for her sorry butt.. Over at her Facebook page, they are fast blocking those who don’t agree with statements.. Palin comments about recently release emails. We now know that the State Department sent an email to the White House, the Pentagon, the FBI and others in the intelligence community about this Islamist group claiming responsibility. And yet for days afterwards the White House...
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Look what lying Ryan has done this time
A charity that operates a soup kitchen in northeastern Ohio has faced an exodus of donors ever since vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan staged a photo-op on the premises. “It appears to be a substantial amount,” Brian Antal, president of the Mahoning County St. Vincent De Paul Society in Youngstown, told The Huffington Post. “You can rest assured there has been a substantial backlash.” however if you like you can help to fix this, If you're interested, you can make a donation here: Mahoning County St. Vincent De Paul SocietyP.O. Box 224Youngstown,...
Press Release: Defend our Water
October 18, 2012 For immediate release DEFEND OUR WATER: BCGOP URGES CITY VOTES TO VOTE NO ON WATER REFERENDUM Asheville, NC-With early voting upon us and a referendum about the regional water system on the ballot for Asheville city voters, the Buncombe County Republican Party releases the following statement: "In the wake of Asheville City Council's move to privatize the Asheville Municipal Golf Course, we do not see it as wise for them to also attempt to privatize an asset they do not own and which roughly half of its customers reside outside...
DOMA Unconstitutional
Via press release from the ACLU: A federal appeals court ruled today that the so-called “Defense of Marriage Act” (DOMA) unconstitutionally discriminates against married same-sex couples. In striking down DOMA, the court held that government discrimination against lesbians and gay men now is assumed to be unconstitutional and that DOMA’s defenders could not offer any good reason for treating married same-sex couples differently from all other married couples. This is the first federal appeals court decision to decide that government discrimination...
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Chris Barron on Ann Coulter comments about being disowned for being gay
GLAAD denounced Ann Coulter's tweet making fun of gay kids who get disowned by their parents. Today, as he does every time GLAAD is mentioned, GOProud's Chris Barron responded. Via the Advocate: GOProud cofounder Christopher Barron, however, told The Advocate on Wednesday, that GLAAD was overreacting to the author's joke. He added that he knows Coulter personally, and that she "has been a strong ally of gay conservatives. Indeed, Ann...
Monday, October 15, 2012
Paul Ryan Fake Wishing Dishes for Photo OP.
Paul Ryan showed up at an Ohio soup kitchen where he posed for the cameras by scrubbing already-cleaned pots. Dan Amira snarks at New York Magazine: I can only guess he didn’t want to get dishpan hands. He was only really to wash clean pans instead of dirty one.. What a user…...
Saturday, October 13, 2012
It’s about Racist, Period.
man showed his racist pride by wearing a shirt that read "Put the white back in the White House" at a Mitt Romney campaign rally ...
Thursday, October 11, 2012
ORANGE COUNTY TO HOST HALLOWEEN ACTIVITIES FOR ALL AGES
ORANGE COUNTY GOVERNMENT Media Contact Ginger Holler, Children's Programs: 919.245.2532 Jessica Arnold, Teen/Adult Programs: 919.245.2537 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ORANGE COUNTY TO HOST HALLOWEEN ACTIVITIES FOR ALL AGES ORANGE COUNTY, NC (October 11, 2012)—The Orange County Main Library will host the following Halloween activities throughout October: Thursday, October 25: Halloween Movie Double Feature Families can arrive at 5:30 p.m. to watch a short Halloween cartoon classic followed by the feature...
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Gay men Body Standards, so true
Duke student Jacob Tobia has wrote a great commentary about Gay men body image and self-esteem. this is a great read.. Here is an interesting piece: Isn’t it ironic that in the course of my life, the most traumatic factors affecting my self-esteem have been the standards imposed on my body by the gay community? It’s no wonder that a study at Columbia University found that gay men are three times more likely to have an eating disorder than their heterosexual counterparts. to read the full commentary surf over to HuffPost …...
Monday, October 8, 2012
Press Release- ORANGE COUNTY TO HOST COMMUNITY READ: 150TH ANNIVERSARY EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
Media Contact Tara Fikes, DirectorHuman Relations Commission Phone: 919.245.2487 housingcd@orangecountync.gov FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ORANGE COUNTY TO HOST COMMUNITY READ:150TH ANNIVERSARY EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION ORANGE COUNTY, NC (October 8, 2012)—The Orange County Human Relations Commission is hosting a Community READ and inviting book clubs and reading groups in Orange County to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. The famous Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln...
