protest
From occupychapelhill.org:
When: November 17, 2011 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: P & J Plaza, 179 E Franklin St, Chapel Hill,NC 27514, USA
Join us after GA for a march in international solidarity!
This is part of an international day of action celebrating the 2 month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street.
http://www.occupytogether.org/2011/11/16/n17-mass-day-of-action/
http://occupywallst.org/action/november-17th/
Date:
Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 7:30pm
I spent most of Sunday afternoon out at the Haw River just outside the mill village of Swepsonville about five miles upstream of Saxapahaw. I managed to enjoy most of my time out there even though I was there was because I have been having trouble there with trespassers. The land I own out there is the hydro-electric power plant that formerly powered the cotton mill in Swepsonville.
My hydro-electric plant has been out of operation for about 40 years and the windows in the building are almost completely broken out. Inside the building are huge, deep holes in the floor where the generators once sat atop the turbines. I have been gradually working on making the interior of the building safer by covering over the huge holes in the floor, but the building is definitely not a safe place for unwary visitors.
Date:
Saturday, October 15, 2011 - 10:30am
Location:
Peace and Justice Plaza, Franklin St. Post Office, 179 East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill
Hello NC residents!
On Tuesday, May 3rd, the North Carolina Association of Educators and the North Carolina Parent/Teacher Association are co-sponsoring a public education rally in Raleigh from 4 pm on. Buses and carpools of educators, public school employees, parents, students, and concerned citizens are travelling to Raleigh from Murphy to Manteo to show their concern about the 2011-2012 state budget, which cuts public education funding by $1 billion statewide. Please consider travelling to Raleigh in support of our public school system, its students, and its employees! And forward this to all your friends and family! I hope you can attend.
Loren
Here is a link to the actual budget proposal. http://www.ncleg.net/documentsites/Committees/HouseAppropriationsEducation/2011%20Session/2011-04-12%20Meeting/FRD_House_PropsedEducationBudget_2011-04-12.pdf
Here is a brief description of the impact that this budget proposal will have on public education if passed.
Local discretionary cuts $346.9 million (cuts 7,000 teacher jobs/or 9,000 TA jobs)
Teacher Assistants $258.6 million (cuts 8,000 jobs)
At-Risk Student Services $30.1 million (cuts 602 teacher jobs)
Noninstructional support personnel (cuts 2,380 jobs)
Academically/Intellectually Gifted (cuts 168 teacher jobs)
Central Office Administration $10.7 million (cut 150 jobs)
Assistant principals $24.7 million (cuts 329 jobs)
Limited English Proficiency $7.5 million (cuts 150 teacher jobs lost)
Transportation $20.7 million (cuts 1,035 bus drivers)
Teacher Academy Eliminated
Mentoring Eliminated
School Technology Eliminated
Staff development Eliminated
NC Science, Math and Technical
Education Center Eliminated
Office of Early Learning Eliminated
Educator Recruitment
and Development Eliminated
Governor’s Education Cabinet Eliminated.
NC Professional Teaching
Standards Commission Eliminated
Background Information: The proposed budget for K-12 education is scheduled for debate in the House Education Appropriations Subcommittee for a week, where changes can be made. A decision on salary cuts in the House version of the budget will be made once the proposal is forwarded to the full Appropriations Chairs. A House budget proposal is scheduled for a vote in late April after which the Senate forwards its proposal.
Here is a quick link to contact your House member.
http://www.capwiz.com/nea/nc/issues/alert/?alertid=41336506&type=ST&show_alert=1
Here is a link to a video of the debate that took place on the Senate floor over the proposed State Health Plan bill following Governor Perdue’s veto of the bill. Note the reference to NCAE as the culprit behind the Governor’s veto. Please join us in thanking Governor Perdue for taking a stand and supporting educators. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8W_Ge5hlu8&feature=player_embedded
Date:
Tuesday, May 3, 2011 - 4:30pm
Location:
state legislature and downtown Raleigh
On November 15th, around four p.m., local Earth First! activists gathered outside of the Royal Bank of Canada in Carrboro to protest the bank's investment in the world's most destructive project, the Canadian Tar Sands. We were holding signs, banners, and doing some chanting. The police arrived and told us that we could not stand anywhere on the sidewalk at all.
I am interested in what OP folks think about the disruption Tuesday evening at the University of the planned talk by Tom Tancredo, preventing him from speaking. I hope we don't see this as a campus issue isolated from the rest of local progressive politics, because it raises fundamental questions about freedom of speech and liberalism.
To me this seems very simple. Tancredo's views on immigration may be loathsome, but he had a right to speak. I am repeatedly appalled, I have to add, at the lack of appreciation of this basic point among some of my fellow progressives and liberals. Free speech applies even to people who are wrong.
The sit-in at South Building (offices for the UNC administration) which began last Thursday has now entered its tenth day and second weekend. Seven students are currently locked-in for the weekend, under constant police guard, demanding that Chancellor Moeser join the 42 universities nationwide which have adopted the Designated Suppliers Program. The DSP is an improvement on the anti-sweatshop policies which UNC adopted in 1990 after another sit-in, and would guarantee that factories producing UNC logo apparel paid their workers a living wage, and that workers at those factories had some sort of collective organization.
Students are keeping their own blog about the sit-in at http://dsp4unc.wordpress.com, with daily video updates.
The DSP has been endorsed by 18 campus organizations, both the Chatham and Orange County democratic parties, UNC's Progressive Faculty Network, the North Carolina AFL-CIO, Black Workers for Justice, North Carolina's UE-150, and the Graduate and Professional Student Federation, among other groups.
Curious to know if anybody on here wants to join in with WILPF/UNC or organize Orange Politics own form of demonstration. It's time to take a stand and not let another year of this war slip through the cracks.
The annual community celebration of the life of Martin Luther King Jr.,
a rally with speeches and song, will begin at 9:30 a.m. at the Peace
& Justice Plaza at the Franklin Street Post Office. At 10:30 a.m.,
participants will march west on Franklin Street to First Baptist Church
of Chapel Hill, located at 106 N. Roberson St., for the annual service
commemorating King’s life.
The Rev. Curtis Gatewood, former president
of the Durham Chapter of the NAACP, is the featured speaker at the 11
a.m. service.
Date:
Monday, January 21, 2008 - 4:30am to 8:00am
Location:
Franklin Street Post Office
I've heard some folks call them the David Price Six, which has a nice ring to it. But it's also notable that Representative Price has requested to drop the charges against the six protesters who occupied his office in an effort to get him to more vigorously oppose the war.
Six local protesters go on trial this afternoon on trespassing charges in connection with an anti-war demonstration in U.S. Rep. David Price's office in February.
On March 26, the six -- Laura Bickford, Ben Carroll, Alisan Fathalizadeh, Sara Joseph, Dante Strobino, Tamara Tal -- pleaded not guilty to the charges. They had called on Price to oppose all further funding for the war and to seek an immediate withdrawal of American soldiers from Iraq.
Since then, Price has written a letter to District Attorney Jim Woodall asking him to drop the charges against the six, protester Carroll said in a release.
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