Voter Photo ID Protestors Arrested

On April 29, 2013, less than a week after the NC House passed a voter photo ID bill, the NAACP called for a prayer vigil and a "stand-in" civil disobedience action at the General Assembly.

Anticipating arrests, several dozen citizen-activists responded. Seventeen spent the night in the Wake County jail.

Given what we've seen of the current regime, there will probably be more such actions soon.

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Fair Fight

On tax day, 2013, the North Carolina AFL-CIO and NC Justice Center staged a symbolic wrestling match between the Champion of the People and the Champion of the Powerful. The event injected a little levity into an otherwise somber climate created by the current regime in North Carolina.


The Durham Luchadoras, a masked female group wrestling in the Mexican Lucha Libre tradition, carried the day in front of the NC General Assembly in Raleigh. The Story

Not In Her Shoes

In 2013, the struggle for women's rights continued in North Carolina. A new regime in the NC General Assembly threatens intrusive procedures and other limitations on women seeking to determine their reproductive destinies.


On March 20 organizations including NARAL, Planned Parenthood, NOW and the ACLU rallied in Raleigh to protest legislators' efforts to turn the clock back to coat-hanger days.

Photos from the event are here.

Occupy Chicago 2012 - Not 1968

Some good advice for the Occupy movement from a political scientist:

Occupy Chicago 2012 - Not 1968: Oakland and Echoes of the 1960s | Common Dreams

Occupy the Courts

January 20, 2012 was Occupy the Courts day.  Demonstrators gathered at courthouses across the country to press for a constitutional amendment reversing the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission.

Photos from the Raleigh, North Carolina event are here.

Moyers Interviews Hacker and Pierson

Bill Moyers is back! And here he interviews Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson, authors of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer — And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class.

This is a disturbing view of the status quo, but there's hope. Watch this one to the end!

The Book of Jobs: “A Banking System is Supposed to Serve Society, Not the Other Way Around” | Common Dreams

Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on our currect economic situation and prospects:

The Book of Jobs