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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt got loud. 20 arrests, and evidently the protesters are Bolsheviks and 1%ers...
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according to some of the Brain Trust commenting at the N&O.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/06/16/3941699/moral-monday-demonstrators-renew.html?sp=/99/100/&ihp=1#storylink=cpy
SMC22307
(8,090 posts)RADICALS!
G_j
(40,372 posts)it didn't deserve to fade into immediate oblivion.
This was last week.
WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)gets through to those who sit out midterms. Anything to get them to the polls!
G_j
(40,372 posts)92 Year-Old Moral Monday Arrestee Fired Up! | Rosa Nell Eaton
WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)We work hard, we organize, and despite news to the contrary, we are more united than ever racially and politically. We have some pockets of old hold outs that want to foment hatred, but mostly, we know who our friends and neighbors are - they aren't a scattering of meth heads and crack heads. We are just plain, ordinary Southern people that work together to build a better future for all of us.
WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)to NC, true Southern Democrats are hardcore!
Aerows
(39,961 posts)and anyone that tries to tell you differently, has never lived in the South.
Uncle Joe
(58,506 posts)WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)You are! I took it all for granted in my little blue bubble. NC has been a major dose of reality.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)but outgunned and out-classed? Not in a thousand lifetimes.
Uncle Joe
(58,506 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)Another MM thread that sunk... fast!
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Awesome pictures!
WCLinolVir
(951 posts)Said it was hard to live there, even when he worked in Raleigh. I really feel for you folks and am so proud of the effort there. It could have been us. Who is the guy with the shiny white skull?
WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)I don't remember his name, but think he's one of the higher-ups within the Capitol Police.
WCLinolVir
(951 posts)WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)from my *safe* distance. It's the little dude with the video camera who is rather annoying.