‘We shall be heard’

The Rev. William J. Barber, the state NAACP chairman whose powerful speeches have galvanized many concerns into one cause, spoke to the crowd Saturday, his amplified voice echoing along the towers of Fayetteville Street. Barber said, “Now is the time, here is the place, here are the people and we shall be heard.”

And so Saturday there was a collision between involvement and indifference, between the chants and speeches of those who care and the silence of those who couldn’t care less about what that rabble cares about.

It’s a gulf that reflects a polarized politics based on rifts between races and gaps between the wealthy and the rest. So far that gulf has led to gridlock in Congress and stunning movement on a right-wing agenda in North Carolina.

But on Saturday there was evidence that many grievances are becoming one. The neglected and the denied are standing up. And if their anger boils all the way to the polls, they will, at last, be heard.

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/02/08/3602861/saturdays-big-protest-in-raleigh.html#storylink=cpy

Do their votes count for the state legislature? Or are they Gerrymandered like we are in Ohio where Gerrymandering determined 106 out of 109 legislators. Good luck North Carolina. I wish you well and will help some way. If you want to help democracy elsewhere then sign our petition on Moveon to eliminate Gerrymandering in Ohio.

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Dear Lord save us from the Bush family. They have put us through hell, and we have yet to dig ourselves out.

I read Molly Ivans book Shrub. One despicable family from start to....well we aren't finished yet.

Sorry that you can't see them.

I only signed up for twitter when it was announced that PBO was going to be on answering question. LOL, I was not able to keep up.

Beyond my expertise, fresh.

Makes going to TOD difficult as they seem to use a lot of Twitter. Can you see it when you're not signed on, or are you always on?

Signed on or not I can see it. I think you have to be a member too. I may be wrong on that.

Try it anyway.

Try this: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/02/09/3268901/moral-monday-north-carolina-gop/

Not to mention malcontented.

Thanks for posting this

It gives me hope too, arthritisR_US.

Thank you, she!

They rock!

Together we can damn well do this.

GOTV 2014!

Vote Vote Vote!

I can't stand that Patrick McHenry (Karl Rove's protege) is now my representative

Pissed off, philosophically aligned, well-organized and effective.

Gives me hope.

Bingo! You nailed it!

Thanks TheMathieu.

you stop the Gerrymandering that allows it. Fight for democracy anywhere and we fight for it everywhere. Sign our moveon petition and we can start to fight together strategically all across the USA. The link is http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/gerrymandering-in-ohio?source=c.fwd&r_by=99591. If we win this battle in Ohio, the whole country will win. Although our voters voted for democrats and republicans in the same quantities, we have 9 republicans in the US House and only 3 democrats, Help us and we will help the country. We have no democracy in Ohio. Help us get it back.

Solid post, thanks, daybranch