News Conference & Rally to Save Vidant Pungo Hospital

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

October 29, 2013

For More Information:  Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, President, 919-394-813

                     Atty. Jamie Phillips Cole, Public Policy Coordinator, 919-682-4700

For Media Assistance:  Laurel Ashton, Field Secretary, 828-713-3864

October 30, 2013

3:30 PM

315 E. Main St., Belhaven, NC

BELHAVEN - On Wednesday, October 30th, the Beaufort Co. NAACP and the NC State Conference of the NAACP will join with the Town of Belhaven to protest the closing of the Vidant Pungo Hospital. They will gather at 3:30 PM at the Belhaven Municipal Building at 315 E. Main St. in Belhaven, NC and call on Vidant Health to keep the hospital doors open.

Read More

News Conference Announcing Colonial Capital Moral Monday

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

17 October 2013 

For More Information:  Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, President, 919-394-813

                  Atty. Jamie Phillips Cole, Public Policy Coordinator, 919-682-4700 

For Media Assistance:   Albert Barron, Field Secretary, 252-521-6546 

Friday, October 18, 2013

11:00 AM

Tryon Palace, 610 Pollock St. New Bern, NC

NEW BERN - The Craven County NAACP Branch, the NC State Conference of Branches and some of its 150 coalition partners will hold a News Conference, Friday morning at 11:00 AM at Tryon Palace, 610 Pollock St., New Bern, NC.

Read More

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II State of Civil Rights Address

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

14 October 2013

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

                                        Atty. Irving Joyner, Legal Redress Chair, 919-682-4700

For Media Assistance:      Laurel Ashton, Field Secretary, 828-713-3864

Two days ago, on Saturday morning, to the largest civil rights gathering in Eastern North Carolina in decades, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II presented his annual "State of Civil Rights in North Carolina" report to the North Carolina NAACP. He heaped praise on the tens of thousands of North Carolinians who participated in the 13 Moral Mondays at the Peoples House on Jones Street in Raleigh to expose the tea party's extreme legislative policies.  He thanked the local peoples assemblies that brought the Forward Together Movement into every corner of the state, at simultaneous assemblies in the 13 U.S. Congressional Districts at the same hour, 50 years ago, that Dr. Martin Luther King urged the 1963 participants to take the March on Washington back home in the South, to accelerate the long, hard work of dismantling racism back home.  And he listed the dozen Moral Mondays that have been held around the state, and several that are planned in the near future--as well as Moral Monday groups becoming activated around the nation.

Read More

Tami Fitzgerald has her nickers in a knot

is foaming at the mouth, over the fact that NC’s Attorney General Roy Cooper will be giving the Keynote Speech at this year Equality NC Gala in Greensboro. She Feels that since he is the State Attorney who must defend  Amendment one shouldn’t be giving speech at this LGBT Gala.

See email from her below,

We need your help immediately.

Right now North Carolina's Marriage Amendment is under attack and the person charged with defending it in court is Democrat Attorney General Roy Cooper, who has made his opposition to the amendment clear in the past.

Now we have learned that Roy Cooper will headline a fundraising event for Equality NC - the very group that is working on the ground in North Carolina to overturn the Amendment we worked so hard to get passed!

This is outrageous!

How can an Attorney General charged with defending the definition of marriage contained in our Constitution also headline an event designed to overturn that very same Constitutional provision?

Clearly he is unwilling to stand up for the Amendment that over 60% of North Carolinians support!

We need your help immediately! We clearly cannot rely on the Attorney General to defend our Marriage Amendment!

Please make an emergency donation today to the NC Values Coalition.

With your donation today, we can make sure everyone in North Carolina knows the Attorney General is more interested in future political ambitions than performing the job he was elected to do.

There is no time to waste - please donate right now!

I feel this is a scam, since no matter how much money they get, thay can’t stop him for speaking at this event. Tami and her goons are just ripping people off, Period. I guess they need this month rent and light bill money…

in other news Cooper had said many time he has defended a law of NC, that he doesn’t agree with, cause it was his job to do. So Tami is just blowing smoke and asking for money to support her political ambitions and her life-style

photo credit (http://honestnc.com/tag/tami-l-fitzgerald/)

Read More

Hundreds To Protest Big Money in Politics As U.S. Supreme Court Hears McCutcheon v. FEC

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

6 October 2013 

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

Layne Amerikaner, 202-467-4999 

Blair Bowie, 202-546-0173

WASHINGTON - This Tuesday, as the Supreme Court hears McCutcheon v FEC, activists and leaders of grass-roots peoples organizations representing a wide spectrum of issues will protest the super-rich effort to further undermine the integrity of our democracy on the Court's front steps. Mr. McCutcheon, on behalf of all super-rich individuals, has asked the Court to left the caps on the amount an individual can directly contribute to a political campaign. 

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, North Carolina NAACP State President, and leader of the most exciting multi-racial progressive people's movement in the nation, will be a featured speaker on the Supreme Court Steps.

Read More

WTF: Kay Hagan? Gov’t close to a shut down, she asking for money.

We're coming down to the wire -- there's just under 8 hours left to reach our $90,000 goal before the FEC deadline.
The special interests certainly spared no expense in North Carolina this month. And we can't spare any expense in building the grassroots network we need to fight back.
The clock is ticking.
Chip in $5 or more right now to help us reach our $90,000 goal before the FEC deadline at midnight tonight.
Thank you for all of your hard work this month.
Kay

Paid for By Hagan for US Senate Inc.

Read More

NC NAACP Pleased the United States Is Asking U.S. Courts to Block the Recently-Passed Voter Law of North Carolina Legislators and Governor

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

30 September 2013 

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

Atty. Jamie Phillips Cole, Public Policy Coordinator, 919-682-4700 

For Media Assistance:          Laurel Ashton, Field Secretary, 828-713-3864 

DURHAM: US Attorney General Eric Holder will announce today that the U.S. Attorneys
from the three North Carolina Federal Districts in North Carolina will file a lawsuit on Monday, September 30, asking the Federal Courts to stop the law the majority of the NC General Assembly passed and Governor McCrory recently signed--a law many voting rights experts call the 'Worst Voter Suppression law in the nation.'

Following Attorney General Eric Holder's news conference today announcing the lawsuit, the North Carolina NAACP will hold a news conference in response at 1:00 PM at the NC NAACP state office, 114 W. Parrish St. Durham, NC 27702.

Read More

A Statement from the North Carolina NAACP

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

18 September 2013 

 

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

Atty. Jamie Phillips Cole, Public Policy Coordinator, 919-682-4700 

For Media Assistance:          Laurel Ashton, Field Secretary, 828-713-3864 

 

A Statement from the North Carolina NAACP

 

North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Claude Pope held a news conference on Tuesday, in which he criticized the Forward Together Movement and the continuing Moral Monday rallies. The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, President of the North Carolina NAACP, issued the following statement.

 

"We pray for Mr. Pope, his family and his Party. It is difficult, when you find yourself on the wrong side of history, to face truth.  

 

But let us be clear: the North Carolina NAACP's dispute and critique is not with Mr. Claude Pope. We are highly critical of Gov. McCrory, Mr. Tillis and Mr. Berger and other elected officials, who put their hands on the Holy Bible, and swore to uphold the Constitutions of North Carolina and the United States, to govern for the good of the whole.  

 

They have not done so. Until they do, the broad, deep diversity of the Forward Together Movement will continue to challenge their immoral, unconstitutional policies."  

 

###

 

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 the more the 150 members of the Historic Thousands on Jones Street (HKonJ) Peoples Assembly Coalition, and is the architect of the Moral Monday & Forward Together Movement.   

Read More