EXCELLENT Article at Daily Kos "Moral Monday, What Happens Now?

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/31/1227968/-N-C-Moral-Monday-13-What-happens-now



As many as 10,000 North Carolinians (and a few out-of-state visitors, including hundreds of media representatives) left the rally at Halifax Mall on Monday and poured into the streets of Raleigh. The N.C General Assembly had adjourned Friday morning, July 26, after passing some of the most reactionary, regressive, oppressive legislation in untold decades of the state.

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"No one here knows how to describe how different this North Carolina is from the state we lived in eight months ago. In less time than it takes to gestate a human fetus, our state has given birth to a place where guns are welcome in restaurants where alcohol is served, a place where voting is no longer a right but a privilege granted by a powerful few, a place where anyone (even someone with a firearm) can challenge your eligibility to vote,a place where women may have to travel to one clinic in the entire state that may still be permitted to provide a full range of reproductive medical services, a place where the water system your community built and maintained could now be controlled by a small group of Republican millionaires, a place where public education has been gutted, a place where your business is prohibited by law from contracting with union workers, a place where our state attorney general has been stripped of the power to work with the U.S. attorney general to address challenges to state laws."

The above paragraph would have to be the length of a George R.R. Martin novel to enumerate the ways in which our state has been ALEC-formed by colonizing forces working with state-grown conservative, paleo-conservative, and neoconservative collaborators.

And so we marched.
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What happens next?

Both the Southern Coalition for Social Justice and NAACP of North Carolina are challenging the constitutionality of the new voter-suppression law. The two organizations are educating voters about the new law and helping individual voters obtain necessary documents to meet the criteria outlined in HB589 that will prove their eligibility to vote.

Other plans:

A massive statewide voter registration campaign, featuring NAACP-NC trainings.
Each of the 926 people arrested during Moral Monday and Witness Wednesday demonstrations has vowed to register 50 people to vote.
Moral Mondays hits the road, with local communities hosting mass demonstrations each month, beginning with a Mountain Moral Monday in Asheville on Monday, August 5.
The Forward Together Movement “Social Justice Services” the weekend of August 24-25, in which faith communities will dedicate their Saturday and Sunday services to addressing the moral crisis of public policy in North Carolina and building a more just and equitable society.
Thirteen simultaneous protest and organizing rallies will be held in North Carolina’s 13 congressional districts on August 28, the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.
We'll be attending congressional forums held by members of U.S. Congress in their home districts across North Carolina, to hold representatives accountable and demand that they stand against regressive policies in the state, as well as reinstate qualifications under Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act nationally.

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