Moral Monday returns to Asheville! 1 Year later!

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Last edited Wed Jul 16, 2014, 04:48 PM - Edit history (1)

August 4, Moral Monday returns to Asheville!


http://www.880therevolution.com/onair/the-jeff-messer-show-50416/mountain-moral-monday-the-second-coming-12568116/



Well, we got it from www.ashevilleblade.com via Lesley Boyd's write up, published there yesterday afternoon, but we did (again) scoop the more major media here in town.

In fact, the Asheville Citizen Times only reported it online a few hours ago.

http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2014/07/15/mountain-moral-monday-event-returns-asheville/12668869/

To be fair, the Mountain Xpress, also released info online today, about an hour earlier than the A C-T: http://mountainx.com/news/mountain-moral-monday-rally-returns-to-asheville-aug-4/

Of course, as they point out, the Mountain People's Assemble did not announce it on their website until today: http://mountainmoralmonday.wordpress.com/

So, perhaps the cat was let out of the bag a little early by Lesley and David Forbes at the Blade. And, then, of course, by me on 880.

Regardless of who got it first, who said it first, it is the news that we've been waiting for here on 880!

Last year, on August 5, we had a huge day, broadcasting the entire show, plus an extra hour, live from the stage of the Mountain Moral Monday event that drew upward of 10,000 people (by official counts). You can see a great overview of most of the crowd, in the Mt Xpress story above.

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1. Good write up in the ACT

http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2014/07/28/asheville-host-nd-mountain-moral-monday-aug/13298649/

Asheville to host 2nd Mountain Moral Monday on Aug. 4
Casey Blake, [e-mail] 7:48 p.m. EDT July 28, 2014

ASHEVILLE – A year ago this week, organizers with the fledgling Mountain People's Assembly were scrambling to pull together flyers and T-shirts for a rally they thought might attract 1,000 people.

They optimistically estimated 2,000 in news releases and interviews, assuming that a few busloads of folks from surrounding counties would fill out the crowd.

But that Monday, an estimated 10,000 people filed in to Roger McGuire Green in Pack Square Park to hear to their message and see the charismatic leader who has since become a household name across the state: North Carolina NAACP president the Rev. William Barber.

The Mountain Moral Monday event will return Aug. 4, likely drawing thousands to downtown Asheville.


But a year after the first rally, which occurred at the height of the statewide movement that brought national attention to North Carolina lawmakers, little has changed in the General Assembly they've been petitioning.

In fact, organizers say, the policies they've been fighting "have only gotten worse."

"In some ways, everything has changed — everything is different," said Elaine Lite, one of the original organizers of the People's Assembly. "But in some ways, nothing has. Legislatively, things have probably become worse, and I think many lawmakers are even more averse to hearing the growing voices opposed to their decisions."

But the impact of the movement may lie more at home, they say — a contention that may only be decided come November.

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