HKonJ: Thousands march in downtown Raleigh
Source: Raleigh News & Observer
RALEIGH — State NAACP President William J. Barber II laid out goals for a diverse coalition of groups Saturday afternoon at a rally attended by thousands of people from all over the state and the nation who marched, sang, chanted, cheered and even danced through downtown Raleigh.
Organizers said the “Mass Moral March” was intended to push back against last year’s Republican-led legislation in North Carolina.
Barber called for well-funded public education, anti-poverty policies, affordable health care for all that includes the expansion of Medicaid, an end to disparities in the criminal justice system on the basis of class and race, the expansion of voting rights and “the fundamental principle of equality under the law for all people.”
“We will become the ‘trumpet of conscience’ that Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called upon us to be, echoing the God of our mothers and fathers in the faith,” he said. “Now is the time. Here is the place. We are the people. And we will be heard.”
Read more: http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/02/08/3602345/hkonj-thousands-march-in-downtown.html
More photos at link.
I wonder if this got ANY coverage on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, or FNC, who devoted plenty of resources to the Tea Party protests?
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If it's not on CNN or Fux the majority won't see it.
But...as opposed to the Bushcheney Dark Ages...there are some chinks of light.
yellers and supporters needed anytime
And to all those who are "there in spirit," never think that is not important.
This is going to be a hard fight this election year. The opposition is intense.
