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Ellwood City Ledger
March 23, 2018
Besides the Young Democrats, the rally is being organized by the 12th Congressional District Chapter of the Progressive Democrats of America and the Moral Mondays Coalition, a group comprising the Beaver-Lawrence Central Labor Council, the Beaver County NAACP and Southwest PennsylvaniaÃâà...
Pasadena Weekly
March 22, 2018
Now in its 16th year, the annual Palm Sunday Peace Parade is set for 3 p.m. Sunday, March 25, beginning in front of Reformation Lutheran Church, 570 Orange Grove Blvd., and ending at the corner of Garfield Avenue and Colorado Boulevard, in front of the Paseo. Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'sÃâà...
Durham Herald Sun
March 15, 2018
And just last week, Holmes stood in a Wake County Superior Court on behalf of Moral Monday arrestees arguing that the N.C. General Assembly did not have the constitutional right to delegate rule-making authority to a Legislative Services Commission to make rules about “where people can go, what theyÃâà...
Memphis Daily News
March 12, 2018
The last of the three Moral Mondays gatherings Monday evening at Temple Israel, organized by The National Civil Rights Museum, included more criticism of the Strickland administration. Rev. Traci Blackmon also said there is too much reliance on the mountaintop imagery Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. used inÃâà...
Truth-Out
March 8, 2018
Dr. Barber's work comes out of the profound experience of leading the Moral Mondays movement. In addition to weekly gatherings, for 13 years Moral Mondays brought people from all over North Carolina and other parts of the South together for a March that was held on the second Saturday of February.
Smoky Mountain News
March 8, 2018
“One thing I learned from the Moral Monday Movement is we won't get far in our effort to meet the other and build bridges and repair the breaches that European colonialism and slavery created unless we get real — I mean real — with one another,” he said. “We have to learn about the terrible moments inÃâà...
Liberation
March 7, 2018
February 8, 2014, Moral Monday Movement rally in downtown Raleigh. Photo: Stephen Melkisethian,(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). A federal judge in Oklahoma has reduced the sentence of a woman facing jail time for passing counterfeit checks in exchange for allowing herself to be sterilized. Summer Creel, whoÃâà...
News & Observer
February 27, 2018
A Superior Court judge rejected arguments by Moral Monday protesters who contended that rules used to arrest them at the North Carolina Legislative Building in 2016 were illegal. Judge Carl Fox found after a brief hearing Monday inside a Wake County Superior Court room that North Carolina GeneralÃâà...
Duke Today
February 23, 2018
Barber founded the Forward Together Moral Movement that gained national acclaim with the Moral Monday protests at the North Carolina General Assembly in 2013. The protests drew thousands of people calling for the state government to embrace a moral public policy agenda, and resulted in 1,200Ãâà...
Virginia Gazette
February 12, 2018
John Whitley, who started Moral Mondays on Duke of Gloucester Street four years ago along with retired pastor Charles Swadley, said the first issue on the first Moral Monday was Medicaid expansion. It's still a priority for the two men. “We're out here today to encourage, and to ask, and to seek the supportÃâà...
CNN
February 9, 2018
The trick is when white politicians persuade poor white working class people that the source of their pain is people of color, immigrants and other scapegoats, says Barber, who rose to national fame after helping lead Moral Mondays, a social justice movement formed in North Carolina. "You have to showÃâà...
Asheville Citizen-Times
February 9, 2018
RALEIGH – The Rev. William Barber, the founder of the “Moral Monday” movement is sick. His successor as president of the state chapter of the NAACP is sick. And the weather forecast calls for showers. But the clouds are supposed to clear. And organizers of the 12th annual “Moral March on Raleigh” stillÃâà...
Progressive.org
February 7, 2018
In his former role as president of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP, Barber led the “Moral Mondays” movement that enlisted a broad coalition of people engaged in human .... Some people don't know that 11 percent of the people who got arrested during the Moral Monday arrests were Republicans.
Salisbury Post
February 5, 2018
The coalition has continued its work under the banner of the Forward Together Moral Movement and organized 13 Moral Mondays and more than 25 local Moral Mondays across the state. The coalition has continued to hold Moral Monday demonstrations at the Capitol while also fighting what it considersÃâà...
News & Observer
February 5, 2018
Leaders of the national movement are the Rev. William Barber, who helped organize the Moral Monday movement in North Carolina, and the Rev. Liz Theoharis, who say they will work with grassroots groups across the country on four core issues: racism, poverty, ecological devastation and what the groupÃâà...
News & Observer
December 4, 2017
A national “Moral Revival” effort that has echoes of North Carolina's “Moral Monday” protests will be launched next spring by the Rev. William Barber II and his co-chair at the Poor People's Campaign. “We must transform the moral narrative in this country,” Barber, who led N.C.'s Moral Monday efforts, saidÃâà...
WTVD-TV
December 4, 2017
Irving Joyner, long-time legal counsel to the North Carolina NAACP was at Barber's side for many of those Moral Mondays in Raleigh protesting the GOP agenda on statewide voting restrictions and voter identification that protesters argued were aimed at suppressing minority voting and the RepublicanÃâà...
News & Observer
December 31, 1999
Judge Carl Fox called attorneys for two Moral Monday protesters and the prosecutor on their cases back to court on Friday with more questions. Earlier in the week, Fox rejected arguments by two protesters who contended rules governing where people can go, what they can do and how much noise theyÃâà...
News & Observer
December 31, 1999
Thirteen months have passed since Carol Anderson and Dale Herman were convicted of trespass charges after refusing to leave the North Carolina Legislative Building during a Moral Monday protest over House Bill 2. On Monday, the protesters are due in Wake County Superior Court as part of an appealÃâà...
