UPDATE Jan. 24: Organizers for the Moral Monday town hall and news conference have cancelled the event due to weather conditions.
From the Asheville-Buncombe branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP):
The Asheville-Buncombe Branch of the NAACP will host a Moral Monday Town Hall and News Conference with Rev. Dr. William Barber at 6:00 pm on Monday, January 25, 2016 in the Sanctuary of the Hill Street Baptist Church at 135 Hill Street in Asheville. Doors open at 5:30 pm.
People from across western NC will gather to hear speakers from the region who have been directly affected and suffered from a flood of immoral and unconstitutional policies supported and passed by our Governor and General Assembly over the past four years. This extreme and regressive agenda has hurt ALL North Carolinians. They have voted to deny healthcare, defund schools, suppress voting, raise taxes on the poor, deny equal protection under the law, and reverse environmental protections. This legislation has resulted in denial of rights – and diminished quality of life for the citizens of North Carolina.
The Town Hall program will include a review of the ‘It’s Our Time, It’s Our Vote’ voter empowerment campaign.
We are in a historic election year. Now it’s our time to vote!
“…denial of Medicaid expansion directly impacts half a million people, 346,000 of which are white….There are over 160 electoral votes in the South, held captive by the strategy of regression. The moral fusion movement we are a part of is based on repairing those breaches. And it will not be stopped, unless we stop.” – Rev. Dr. William J. Barber from an interview ‘A Third Reconstruction? Rev. Barber Lifts the Trumpet’
Cancelled?
Did Jesus cancel the Last Supper?
Was the war cancelled when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?