News Alert - NC A&T and Winston-Salem State University Invite NC NAACP President to Speak at Campus Rallies Today

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

April 17, 2012

For More Information:           Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, President, 919-394-8137

Mrs. Amina J. Turner, Executive Drector, 919-682-4700

For Media Assistance:            Rob Stephens, 336-577-9335

(DURHAM) -  Two Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU's) are holding rallies today against Voter Suppression, Amendment One and the rightwing attack on African-Americans, Latinos, the elderly, women, students, the poor, and other minorities. The campus groups, led by NAACP college chapters on the campuses of Winston-Salem State University and North Carolina A&T University are helping to lead these efforts and have invited Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, President of the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, to speak.

Both events are scheduled for today, Tuesday, April 17, 2012. The "Rally for a Revolution" on the campus of Winston-Salem State University will take place at 2:30 PM at the Clock Tower.  Please contact Brandon Singletary for on-site coordination - 910-581-9864.  

The "Join the Revolution Rally" at NC A&T University is organized in conjunction with five campuses in Greensboro: Bennett College, UNC-Greensboro, Guilford College and Greensboro College. It will take place at 5:15 PM behind the Student Union on the Quad, 1405 John Mitchell Drive, Greensboro, NC. Please contact William Robinson for on-site coordination - 828-261-5552.    

"Young people are not being fooled by the rightwing's attempt to divide and conquer the current day Civil Rights Movement," said Rev. Barber. "They know passing the first amendment that codifies discrimination into the North Carolina Constitution is part of a strategic plan to strip the rights of a new, more diverse North Carolina in order to maintain power in the hands of the few. As students on campuses where sit-ins sparked a wave of student movements across the country against all forms of discrimination, they know it is especially concerning in a Southern State for powers to set a precedent whereby a majority votes on the rights of a minority in an attempt to move toward a limited states rights agenda as a way of undermining the broad protections of our Constitution."

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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, conducting voter mobilization and monitoring equal opportunity in the public and private sectors.

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Rocky Mount Speakers Bureau | April 15th

April 15, 2012 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Church of the Good Shepherd

231 N. Church Street

Rocky Mount, NC 27804

See map: Google Maps

Rocky Mount Speakers Bureau

Learn how to talk to friends, family and the broader community about the harms of Amendment One.

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New Bern: to support Amendment 1

Tuesday April 17 at 7PM City Hall: New Bern Aldermen take up resolution in support of Amendment One. Join me in speaking up against this. Here's info on the meetings http://www.newbern-nc.org/C_Hall/index.php If you can't attend: email or call City Hall.

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Victoria Jackson: On Climate Change

Its clear as day that Victoria has no brains at all. That she just a blonde Joke waiting to Happen. That she need attention so bad that she will lower her self to any standard to get it.

Now she claims only Fascists and Communist believe in Climate Change.

"This is the opposite of capitalism. It is the opposite of free enterprise and what made America the greatest nation in the world. This bill would be supported by the occupiers, Valerie Jarett, Van Jones, Obama, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Communists, Fascists, Socialists, whatever you want to call it, it’s the government taking over. It’s the government picking the winners and losers. Even though it looks pretty on the outside it’s the way our country is being destroyed right now." - Victoria Jackson

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Brian Brown Twitter Account Hacked

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Amendment 1: Wrong for NC Families: Perdue Speaks

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NC NAACP: Zimmerman is Arrested today, but the work to Arrest racial profiling and racial injustice in the legal system continues tomorrow

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

April 11, 2012

For More Information:     Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, President, 919-394-8137

                                         Mrs. Amina J. Turner,  Executive Director, 919-682-4700

Zimmerman is Arrested today, but the work to Arrest racial profiling and racial injustice in the legal system continues tomorrow

Tonight was an important beginning with the arrest and second degree murder charge against George Zimmerman for the death of Trayvon Martin. It begins what we have wanted in the Civil Rights Community: an arrest and a fair and open trial based on the facts. It begins the process of restoring some faith and hope that justice will be blind and our legal system will be impartial.  

But while it is a beginning, it is not an end. It should not be an end to our prayers for Trayvon's family. It should not be an end to us remembering that an innocent teenager was racially profiled for wearing a hoodie and "carrying skittles while black" with deadly consequences. Trayvon, who could have been any of our sons, is dead. It should not be an end to our following or monitoring this case. While Zimmerman has been arrested, it certainly doesn't put an end to the racial profiling and racial application of arrests, prosecutions and imprisonment in our communities. Rather, now more than ever, racial profiling must be challenged by an ongoing Movement that demands respect, raises a moral outcry and registers our position politically through the electoral process in ways that continue to challenge systemic injustice.

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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, conducting voter mobilization and monitoring equal opportunity in the public and private sectors.

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A Bit of this and a Bit of that

Well it would seem that someone has pissed in Brian Brown, (head of NOM) Coffee sometime this week. It would seem that HRC has some tax returns from NOM with a list of their donors..

Brown, personal take:

It appears that someone with either the IRS or the HRC may have committed a federal crime by illegally obtaining and then releasing a confidential tax return of the National Organization for Marriage.
It's clear that the tax return was stolen, either from NOM or from the government. The Huffington Post article says that HRC claimed they received the document from a ‘whistleblower.' But the term ‘whistleblower' is completely inapt. We're talking about a criminal who has stolen confidential tax return information. We demand to know who this criminal is, whether they work for the HRC or the IRS, and how they obtained confidential tax information filed only with the US government."
I would like to know what the HRC knew and when did they know it. It certainly appears that either the HRC was involved in illegally obtaining this tax return themselves, or they worked with a criminal who stole it from NOM or the IRS. Either way, it appears that a federal crime may have been committed

in the very stupid files,

Green tea and Olympic doping: "Olympic doping officials are considering whether to tweak their tests after a recent British study showed green tea might hide testosterone from the standard test used to spot it."

Now she is so sorry for it. Bitch Please.. Mary J Blige full of shit

Mary J. Blige is sorry for participating in a controversial Burger King ad.

“I agreed to be a part of a fun and creative campaign that was supposed to feature a dream sequence. Unfortunately, that's not what was happening in that clip.

I understand my fans being upset by what they saw. But, if you’re a Mary fan, you have to know I would never allow an unfinished spot like the one you saw go out."

And at home here in NC in the matters of Amendment 1 it would seem that our fundies have billboards up Supporting Amendment 1.

Advocate, Bitch Please,

LA Gay Center Slams TV Station for Humiliating Gay Men | News

www.advocate.com

A local Los Angeles TV broadcaster published the names, birthdates, and pictures of 18 men recently arrested for public sex at a Manhattan Beach restroom, and the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center is livid over that decision.

I’m sorry, If these men can’t take the sex elsewhere they need to be busted and shamed, shit like this give us a bad name..

Also today the Exec’s of Starbuck received a very large Thank You Card,activists from the Sum Of Us delivered a giant "Thank You" card noting the almost 650,000 people who have shown their gratitude for supporting LGBT civil equality.

Nichelle Nichols, aka Uhura from Star Trek Visits the White House

 

A Fullerton, California high school senior was dismissed from a campus competition after  a pro-gay comment. Asked where he saw himself in ten years, he said “he hoped to have found the love of his life and married him.” The Superintendent has stepped in, said the guy did nothing wrong, and forced the offending assistant principal to apologize publicly.

Cleve Jones makes a statement,

In an interview with Edge Boston longtime gay activist Cleve Jones, a close friend of Harvey Milk,  claimed that he fears the LGBT movement may be losing its way and that corporate money has too strong an influence.

I think Cleve is on something here. There just to much Corp in our Activist’s groups.

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