Wisconsin: Rev. Dr. Barber of Moral Monday Movement to speak in Madison Thurs. 3/13
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7PM Central Time, Thursday March 13, 2014
312 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethel Lutheran Church, Madison, Wisconsin
This coming together of faith leaders, labor leaders, and progressives from both north and south is going to be intense.
Visiting speaker Reverend Barber is a leading force in the Moral Monday movement (also known as the Forward Together Movement).
The Moral Monday movement is a coming together of over 150 North Carolina groups who have united in opposition to a conservative takeover of both houses of the states legislature as well as the Guvs seat. The North Carolina right wing coup was purchased by squillionaire Art Pope. After the win his Republican allies quickly began laying down an austerity and rights-suppressing agenda that reads like the ALEC playbook (Or Scott Walkers).
The Forward Together Movement responded with weekly Monday rallies and civil disobedience to create a formidable, positive force that holds up the values of the faith community, of labor, of LGBTQ people, women, racial minorities - a big tent which polled twice as popular as the North Carolina Republican legislature last summer.
In 2013 over the course of 13 consecutive Moral Mondays, 945 people were arrested and over 100,000 people rallied at North Carolinas General Assembly.