Thousands attend Mountain Moral Monday, protests spread to Chicago and Oakland

[octoberlib]

Asheville police estimate 10,000 people attended Mountain Moral Monday, the first of a series of regional Moral Monday demonstrations.

In other Moral Monday news, protests were held in Chicago and Oakland this week. Six people were arrested for civil disobedience at an anti-ALEC ‘Moral Monday’ sit-in in Chicago, while Oakland protesters held the first of a series of monthly ‘Moral Monday’ peace and justice rallies.

Via eNews Park Forest:

The Chicago Moral Monday Coalition takes its name from the series of ongoing weekly protests in North Carolina.

“Over the last three months, more than 900 North Carolinians have been arrested, and thousands upon thousands more have rallied to support them. Our brothers and sisters in Raleigh have been protesting cuts to public education and assaults on labor, attacks on Medicaid, unemployment and other social programs, and disenfranchisement through restrictive voter ID laws,” said Chicago Moral Monday Coalition member Rev Marilyn Pagán-Banks, United Church of Christ.

“While Moral Monday activists and community members have been targeting their state legislators, most of these new laws were originally written by ALEC. As North Carolinians take their protest to Ashville today to follow their congresspeople home after the end of the legislative session, we join them in solidarity as we take the Moral Monday protest to the authors of these and other immoral laws in Chicago,” said Rev Pagán-Banks.

http://www.carolinamercury.com/2013/08/thousands-attend-mountain-moral-monday-protests-spread-to-chicago-and-oakland/

[JimDandy]

1. K & R. Moral Monday and Occupy... Gotta support them. n/t

[WorseBeforeBetter]

3. Yep!

Many sounded the alarm back in the fall of 2010 (including Occupy Raleigh and the NC NAACP), and here we are, summer of 2013. People didn't listen. They're listening now...

[blkmusclmachine]

2. .

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[WorseBeforeBetter]

4. Wow. This will go nationwide...

and I'm proud to be a part of where it originated.

A number of high-profile DUers like to poo-poo activism, suggesting GOTV is enough. It's not. Raise awareness...let those "job creators" know the havoc that can be wreaked on a state in a matter of MONTHS, thanks to careless, punitive Republicans. Raise awareness so the Malleable Middle understands what's going on, and don't let up. We need their votes, especially with gerrymandered districts.

[mmonk]

5. Yep. GOTV doesn't work as it is supposed to when you add

gerrymandering and voter suppression.

[octoberlib]

6. +1 .I agree with you. GOTV isn't enough.

I think MLK and the people living under authoritarian regimes who are trying to transition their countries into democracy would agree too.