Just Noticing: Observations of a Blogger
Posted by Michelle Moquin on February 16th, 2014
Good morning!
From Think Progress:
15 Photos From The Massive Progressive Protest You Didn’t Hear About This Weekend
CREDIT: PLANNED PARENTHOOD
Somewhere between 80 to 100,000 people from 32 states turned out to protest four years of drastic state Republican initiatives in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Saturday.
The “Moral March on Raleigh,” organized by Historic Thousands on Jones Street (HKonJ) and the North Carolina NAACP, marched from Shaw University to the state capitol to push back against the “immoral and unconstitutional policies” of Republican Gov. Pat McCrory during the 2013 NC General Assembly session. Since North Carolina Republicans took over both legislative chambers in 2010, legislators have eliminated a host of programs and raised taxes on the bottom 80 percent, repealed a tax credit for 900,000 working families, enforced voter suppression efforts, blocked Medicaid coverage, cut pre-Kindergarten funding, cut federal unemployment benefits, and gave itself the authority to intervene in abortion lawsuits.
Activists have gathered at weekly protests, called ‘Moral Mondays,’ in North Carolina since 2013 as a way to give voice to individuals whose rights were under attack by the Republican-controlled legislature. While there were no reported arrests in Saturday’s protest, hundreds of nonviolent protesters were arrested during last year’s Moral Monday events.
Here’s a look at 15 of the best photos from Saturday’s Moral March:
UPDATE: The article has been changed to reflect that North Carolina Republicans raised taxes on the bottom 80 percent, rather than 95 percent (a figure based on an old proposal).
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February 17th, 2014 at 8:28 am
If one thinks that is bad, they haven’t been to the Olympics in Sochi. The hotels are missing lightbulbs, doorhandles, and sometimes even the doors themselves. Security guards are being underpaid, if they’re being paid at all.
It is just terrible here.
February 17th, 2014 at 8:32 am
Wow, those were some awesome pictures.
February 17th, 2014 at 8:32 am
I agree Misha. It’s not as if Sochi just found out they had to host the Olympics a couple of months ago. They’ve had years to prepare…yet it seems like someone sent them a last minute email “Hey Putin, turns out Switzerland doesn’t want to host anymore, you mind if we do it at your place?”
The fact is they’ve had more than enough time to get their act together.
February 17th, 2014 at 1:29 pm
With the way the media is being run, it’s no wonder that we missed this.