Mountain Moral Monday coming back to Asheville Oct. 24

Press release from Asheville-Buncombe County NAACP:

On Monday, October 24, 2016 4pm – 6:00 p.m., Asheville-Buncombe NAACP, Mountain People’s Assembly, regional NAACP Branches and a coalition of WNC organizations will host the return of Mountain Moral Monday, a non-partisan event that will highlight the destructive policies enacted by the N.C. General Assembly while strongly focusing on the voter empowerment campaign, “It’s Our Time It’s, Our Vote.” The event will take place at Pack Square Park in downtown Asheville and will feature Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, President NC NAACP and grassroots leader of the Moral Monday Movement.

Since April 2013, over 1,000 people have been arrested in the Raleigh “Moral Monday” demonstrations, including dozens from Western NC. This event will not involve civil disobedience.

The focus of the rally will be the “regressivism on steroids” laws passed by the current state legislature that reversed years of progress in education, health care, voting rights, women’s rights, racial justice and environmental protection.

Rev. Dr. Barber will address the great victory for voting rights! Cited as the toughest voting restrictions in the country, NC’s voting law was struck down by the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth District. The ruling blocks voter ID and restores preregistration, a week of early voting, same-day registration. He will also address North Carolina’s failure to expand Medicaid, re-instate unemployment benefits, the rescinded earned income tax credit, cuts to public education funding, cuts to taxes on the wealthy and attacks on local government decision-making.

In addition, Mountain Moral Monday 3 – Asheville (MMM3-Avl) will feature local and regional speakers, music and poetry!

Organizations and worship communities wishing to endorse Mountain Moral Monday should email organizers at info@mountainmoralmonday.org. All event sponsors will be posted on the Mountain Moral Monday website at MountainMoralMonday.org.