On Saturday, March 8th, North Carolina’s Moral Monday movement held a massive "Moral March" in Raleigh.
Thousands of activists from all races and backgrounds marched from Shaw University to the North Carolina State Capitol. There they held a rally protesting the right-wing policies of the North Carolina government.
Since taking over the legislature in 2010 and the governor’s mansion in 2012, controlling state government for the first time in over a century, North Carolina Republicans eliminated the earned-income tax credit for 900,000, refused Medicaid coverage for 500,000, ended federal unemployment benefits for 170,000, cut pre-K for 30,000 kids while shifting $90 million from public education to voucher schools, slashed taxes for the top 5 percent while raising taxes on the bottom 95 percent, axed public financing of judicial races, prohibited death row inmates from challenging racially discriminatory verdicts, passed one of the country’s most draconian anti-choice laws, and cut early voting and eliminated same day registration.
For complete article visit http://www.thenation.com/blog/178291/north-carolinas-moral-monday-movement-kicks-2014-massive-rally-raleigh#
Thousands of activists from all races and backgrounds marched from Shaw University to the North Carolina State Capitol. There they held a rally protesting the right-wing policies of the North Carolina government.
Since taking over the legislature in 2010 and the governor’s mansion in 2012, controlling state government for the first time in over a century, North Carolina Republicans eliminated the earned-income tax credit for 900,000, refused Medicaid coverage for 500,000, ended federal unemployment benefits for 170,000, cut pre-K for 30,000 kids while shifting $90 million from public education to voucher schools, slashed taxes for the top 5 percent while raising taxes on the bottom 95 percent, axed public financing of judicial races, prohibited death row inmates from challenging racially discriminatory verdicts, passed one of the country’s most draconian anti-choice laws, and cut early voting and eliminated same day registration.
For complete article visit http://www.thenation.com/blog/178291/north-carolinas-moral-monday-movement-kicks-2014-massive-rally-raleigh#
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