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Moral Mondays Come to Georgia - Bill Moyers
The Moral Mondays protests that began in North Carolina in 2012 in response to extreme right-wing policies are spreading to Georgia.
Over the past year, droves of activists in North Carolina have descended on the state legislature building to demand that lawmakers reverse some of their more brutal policies such as cutting unemployment benefits, refusing to expand Medicaid and rolling back voting rights. Thousands of people showed up for North Carolina’s Moral Mondays to disrupt the legislative session with acts of civil disobedience, resulting in the arrests of more than 900 individuals.
Now Moral Mondays are coming to Georgia.
Progressives from across the state will gather during the legislative session beginning on January 13 to express their concerns about what the Atlanta Progressive News calls the “extremist veto-proof Republican-led Legislature that is working in concert with a like-minded Gov. Nathan Deal.”
Georgia progressives’ complaints will sound familiar to the North Carolina Moral Mondays crowd: Gov. Deal’s failure to expand Medicaid, efforts to put restive voting measure in place and education spending policies that divert funds from public schools to private schools.Moral Mondays Georgia describe themselves as “a multiracial, multi-issue coalition of citizens working for positive change for the public good.”
Over the past year, droves of activists in North Carolina have descended on the state legislature building to demand that lawmakers reverse some of their more brutal policies such as cutting unemployment benefits, refusing to expand Medicaid and rolling back voting rights. Thousands of people showed up for North Carolina’s Moral Mondays to disrupt the legislative session with acts of civil disobedience, resulting in the arrests of more than 900 individuals.
Now Moral Mondays are coming to Georgia.
Progressives from across the state will gather during the legislative session beginning on January 13 to express their concerns about what the Atlanta Progressive News calls the “extremist veto-proof Republican-led Legislature that is working in concert with a like-minded Gov. Nathan Deal.”
Georgia progressives’ complaints will sound familiar to the North Carolina Moral Mondays crowd: Gov. Deal’s failure to expand Medicaid, efforts to put restive voting measure in place and education spending policies that divert funds from public schools to private schools.Moral Mondays Georgia describe themselves as “a multiracial, multi-issue coalition of citizens working for positive change for the public good.”
http://billmoyers.com/2014/01/06/moral-mondays-come-to-georgia/