Moral Mondays -- gang we need the support of everyone, and especially North Carolinians.

[rubluetoo]

We are marching, singing, even praying... but mainly we are getting arrested.

To many, Moral Mondays is something they are reading about, an interesting news story. They may even be "liking" or socializing with their friends details on the happenings here in Raleigh. But to others, they are marching and being arrested. Tomorrow many will spend a beautiful North Carolina late spring day in jail.

Here are two personal stories of folks standing up for others.. they are just ordinary North Carolinians. They have both been arrested on past Monday's, and will likely sit tomorrow evening in jail. Why do they do it? What's it like? Find out and leave them some love and encouragement... after all, they are doing this for you and me.

http://www.candidslice.com/moral-monday-citizen-weighs-in-on-what-its-like-to-wear-chains-for-a-cause/

and

http://www.candidslice.com/moral-monday-arrestee-why-i-am-not-willing-to-step-back-anymore/

Thanks for your support... and to my fellow Raleighites -- see you at Legislature building tomorrow!

[RobertEarl]

1. Way to go NCers

Being about as far from Raleigh as one can be and still be in NC, my presence with you good people will have to be in spirit only. But know that we are noticing what you are set out to do, and support you.

[rubluetoo]

2. Thanks RobertEarl

This is a real case of "all politics are local"... and we are going to have our voices heard. NC is a key southern state.. its often been said, how NC goes, so goes the south...

[Itried]

3. Getting arrested is not the "main event"

As someone who was arrested in the 2nd wave of Moral Monday protests on May 6th, I appreciate this call to action, but I think you do us -- and the movement -- a disservice when you cast our arrests as the main event. For every one of us who gets arrested, there are ten times more standing in support and in witness, and thousands more who cannot be there in person but support us in the struggle for justice. We do not go the Legislature to get arrested. We go to exercise our rights (and fulfill our civic duty) to petition our elected representatives for a redress of our grievances. The fact that the State uses its power to arrest us for engaging in non-violent civil disobedience is just one more grievance to add to the growing list of abuses of power being enacted by extremists who make up the super majority of the current legislature. Please don't imitate the corporate media, who put the focus on the arrests rather than on the issues. Voting rights, reproductive freedom, environmental protection, fair taxation, corporate power, health care, LGBTQ and immigrants rights, pubic education... these are the issues that we need to be talking about. If you care about these issues, then join us on Moral Mondays. Whether or not you engage in civil disobedience is a matter of individual conscience, but we ALL have a right (and a duty) to speak up against the regressive laws now spewing from the NC General Assembly. So, as rubluetoo says, "See you at the Legislature!"

[hrmjustin]

5. Welcome to DU my friend!

[G_j]

4. in solidarity !

seriously considering joining you soon!