Moral Monday Comes to Wisconsin

(The Progressive) North Carolina Republicans hold the governor's mansion and a super-majority in the state legislature. They've used their power to ram through bill after bill to aid the wealthy at the expense of the poor.

But the remarkable Forward Together coalition, which has been staging weekly "Moral Monday" protests of as many as 80,000 people, has managed to worry Governor Pat McCrory and his fellow Republicans.

McCrory and his allies are increasingly isolated lately. Even many grassroots Republicans have denounced their policies, like turning down Medicaid health coverage for 500,000 people in one of the nation's most impoverished states. McCrory, a former Duke Power executive who has been reluctant to rein in Duke's pollution of state rivers with coal ash, has an approval rating of 39 percent, with 45 percent of voters saying they disapprove of their governor, according to a recent Public Policy Polling report.

The Reverend William Barber, the leading voice of the Forward Together coalition in North Carolina, found a very attentive audience when he spoke to more than 100 activists in Milwaukee last weekend. Rev. Barber, a key NAACP leader, forcefully underscored the clear common ground Wisconsin shares with North Carolina. ....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://progressive.org/news/2014/06/187746/moral-monday-comes-wisconsin#sthash.WNSR4wF4.dpuf