This just in, via email from Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, President of the NC NAACP:
I invite all Moral Monday Arrestees, HKonJ Partners, NC NAACP members, and supporters of the Forward Together Moral Movement to join us on a conference call this Friday to discuss the upcoming event Moral Monday Reunites on Wednesday, April 29th.With this announcement, Rev. Barber and the NAACP signal that Year 3 of NC's famed Moral Mondays movement will be returning to its roots in principled and well-behaved (but by no means cowed) civil disobedience. Over 1,000 progressive supporters of equality and justice were arrested with Rev. Barber in Year 1's demonstrations at the NC General Assembly building in Raleigh, but last year's Moral Monday demonstrations were more genteel affairs, with no further sit-ins and no arrests.Moral Monday Returns Conference Call
Friday, April 24, 2015
8:00 PM
Phone Number: (530) 881-1212
Meeting ID: 762-504-921#You are especially encouraged to join the call if you or someone you know is interested in engaging in civil disobedience this summer.
The reasons for NC progressives to hold out our hands for nice shiny sets of zip ties and a free bus ride to the hoosegow, by the thousands, are many: the voter ID law, fracking, gerrymandered districts, 'religious freedom' laws, legislated discrimination against same-sex couples, unending racial discrimination, coal ash pollution, welfare for the rich, destruction of a once-proud public education system, and much, much more. This year's kick-off event, the HKonJ Moral March on Raleigh, was an inspirational affair (see my photo diary of this wonderful event). If you haven't put your body into the Moral Movement yet, you don't know what you're missing.
I'll be there. Won't you join me? As a senior citizen I feel a special responsibility; I can remember how grateful I was, back in the Vietnam War protest era, for the oldsters who stood beside us young pups. Their gentle presence was a powerful shield of invincibility.
Time to pay it forward to a new generation.