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August 6, 2013

North Carolina Activists Launch "Mountain Moral Mondays" 
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Critics of the Republican agenda in North Carolina are taking their
struggle statewide with the launch of Mountain Moral Mondays. Nearly
1,000 people were arrested during 13 weeks of Moral Monday actions at
the Capitol in Raleigh. On Monday, thousands gathered in downtown
Asheville to continue protests against the rollback of voting rights,
unemployment benefits and abortion access. Reverend William Barber, head
of the North Carolina NAACP, said the protests are coming to all 13
congressional districts.

 

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