The Central Carolinas Women’s Assembly will be held on Saturday, March 16, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Pool Park in Southern Pines, NC. The Assembly is being held in conjunction with the Women’s March organization and is intended to inform and empower women and their allies as we prepare for the most consequential election in the history of the republic. It will reflect the Women’s March’s vision of Promoting Feminist Economies, Reimagining Democracy, and Ending White Supremacy.
Voter registration and literature will be available on tables from members of the Central Carolinas Women’s Assembly Coalition Members.

Seating
Bring your own seating, if you wish.

Signs and Banners
We encourage you to express yourself with hand-held signs and banners. However please be mindful of the fact that there is a playground adjacent to the Greenspace where the assembly will be held.

Parking
There are two parking lots connected to the park, one on the S Hensley side of the park, the other on the W Iowa side of the park. There may be roadside parking on the W Michigan side of the park and there is parking beside the National Guard Armory at 500 E Morganton Road, two blocks east of the park using S Hensley Street.

Food
There will be no food or vending at the event, but, of course, you can also bring snacks with you.

We look forward to seeing you on Saturday, March 16.

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Take Back the Mic! Raise our Voices!

Register Our Votes as Demands!

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Just in time for Valentine’s Day (February 14) and the start of Early Voting (February 15) the Moore County NAACP, The League of Women Voters of Moore, the West Southern Pines Civic Club, and the Omicron Omega Omega Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority County Present Candi-dating for the Moore County Board of Education.

Saturday, February 10, 2024, 3:00 p.m.
Moore County Center/NC Cooperative Extension
707 Pinehurst Avenue, Carthage, NC

What is “candi-dating”?

It’s like speed dating where single people get together to meet other single people, rotating from table to table every few minutes in the hope of finding someone who sparks their interest.
In this case, there will be nine tables with Moore County voters seated at each table and one seat left open for the candidates. The nine candidates who agreed to participate in this event will spend a set number of minutes at each table answering questions from the voter seated there before rotating to the next table until all nine candidates have visited all nine tables. Hopefully, when it’s over, voters will have a fair idea of which candidates best represent their interests.

We sincerely hope you will join us at the County Center in Carthage. You can also watch the video live via Facebook.

The Law Firm of Van Camp, Meacham & Newman will be assisting the Moore County NAACP with sponsoring their Pro Bono Expunction Clinic on Saturday, February 3, 2024, from 10:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.

If you know of any Moore County Residents who might be interested in participating in this clinic, please encourage them to take advantage of this opportunity by pre-registering online: https://form.jotform.com/.../expunction-clinic-pre...

— at Trinity Ame Zion Church.

Moore County NAACP and the League of WomenVoters of Moore County invite you to a FREE showing of the new Color Purple Movie! This is our way of thanking you for working with us and helping us recruit and train “Good Trouble” warriors in Moore County.

Even if you have already seen the movie, you can come and see it again.

Admission is FREE. Be sure to bring money for concessions and help support The Sunrise Theatre.

Please bring yourself, friends, family members, and your organizations for a night of fellowship and fun. Come enjoy this new version of this Great Movie, which reminds us of the importance of voting and community.

Special thanks to The Sunrise Theater for allowing our organizations to host this event.

Sunrise Theater, 250 NW Broad Street, Southern Pines, NC

The Wilmington Journal Breakfast Club, in association with
the R.S. and T.C. Jervay Foundation presents

A SYMPOSIUM COMMEMORATING
THE 125TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1898
WILMINGTON MASSACRE

NOVEMBER 11, 2023 / 1-4 PM

WILLISTON MIDDLE SCHOOL

401 South 10th Street

Wilmington, NC

This community event is FREE and open to the public

Presented by: The Moore County NAACP, The Climate Change Working Group, and The League of Women Voters

Wednesday, August 30th, 2023 from 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

More details here

North Carolina is a State in Emergency and it’s time for a people’s indictment of the NC General Assembly’s attack on democracy.

Moral Monday Press Conference and Cease and Desist Letter Delivery 

Monday, August 7, 2023 @ 2PM

Bicentennial Mall across Jones Street from the General Assembly Building in Raleigh

Moral Monday: Calling Out the NC General Assembly’s Attacks on the Poor

This Sunday marks the 58th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act. Decades have passed, yet our nation continues to face ongoing attacks not only on voting rights, but on healthcare, LGBTQ+ communities, women, people of color, the environment, and more. Instead of getting caught up in rhetoric around “culture wars,” we must turn our outrage into action, using the collective power of our moral fusion coalition to demand elected officials put an end to this policy violence.

That’s why Repairers of the Breach, the North Carolina Poor People’s Campaign and I will be joining 75 impacted people, interfaith clergy members and advocates from across the state of North Carolina at a Moral Monday press conference on August 7 to call out extremists in the state General Assembly for plotting their attacks on voting rights and passing draconian legislation that hurts North Carolina’s LGBTQIA2S+ community, limits women’s right to choose and makes it easier to get guns while continuing to directly harm poor and low-wealth people across the state. On behalf of tens of thousands of North Carolinians in need of economic justice, we will sign and deliver a letter to the General Assembly demanding legislators, “cease and desist” from their extensive agenda of policy murder and instead focus on passing laws that lift North Carolina’s 4.2 million poor and low wealth people out of poverty. 

To echo Caitlin Swain of Forward Justice, the North Carolina General Assembly’s “looming attack on voting rights must be stopped in its tracks.” This massive attack that the state legislature is planning again on voting rights, and its refusal to ensure living wages, healthcare and environmental protections for the poor and low-wealth people of this state must be stopped in its tracks with all the moral and nonviolent tools available to us. That is why we’re re-intensifying the efforts of the Moral Monday movement. If these extremist legislators don’t stop their attacks, we’ll keep coming back and raising our voices until they hear us. If you’re unable to join us at the Bicentennial Mall in Raleigh, you can tune in to the livestream on Monday at 2pm ET.

Watch The Livestream 

Join the Moore County NAACP, in partnership with Common Cause of NC, on Monday, July 24th, at the McDonald Building in Carthage, as we celebrate our victory in the Moore v. Harper case in the United States Supreme Court and discuss ways to defend democracy from the autocratic aspirations of the far right.

Common Cause North Carolina is hitting the road for a #UniteNC town hall roadshow tour to build political education, relationships, and outrage in response to the “long train of abuses” from the NC General Assembly. Focused on key issues like the budget, healthcare (including reproductive justice & bodily autonomy), the environment, and public education — tied together by threats to our democracy — we’ll be educating our people, building our base, and insisting state lawmakers attend so they can answer to North Carolinians.

Our organizations will be there to educate; members of the public will be there to ask questions or share their testimony; and lawmakers will be invited to listen and respond to the people. It’s a good old-fashioned town hall complete with food and fellowship.

Our Purpose

• Unite grassroots and grasstops organizations alongside everyday North Carolinians to build trust, build relationships, and build movements

• Strengthen our coalitions by doing the work together in dozens of counties. 

• Create alignment for the fights to come in 2023 and 2024.
  

Gun Violence Awareness and Remembrance Day/

Wear Orange Weekend

Saturday, June 3, 4:00-6:00 pm

735 S Stevens Street, Southern Pines, NC

Every year on the first Friday in June, members of our movement come together to honor survivors of gun violence and demand a future free from this crisis. We wear orange throughout the weekend to show our support—in every state and every community across the country.

Persistent gun violence is harming too many Black communities across the United States, contributing to individual, family, and community-level trauma. Community trauma is not only the sum of the hurt and suffering of individuals who have had traumatizing experiences. It is also a collective trauma experienced in communities with elevated levels of violence. The term “community trauma” seeks to name an effect that many in Black communities know to be ever-present and deeply problematic.

Join us at Pool Park in Southern Pines, NC on Saturday, June 3 from 4:00-6:00 PM. Hear from people whose lives have been directly affected by gun violence and find out what you can do to advocate for common-sense gun regulations.

There will be free food and refreshments, and music.

This event is sponsored by the Moore County NAACP and Mothers of Murdered Sons.

[The NAACP is a 501(c)4 originally formed to secure the political, educational, social and economic equality of rights in order to eliminate race bases discrimination and ensure the health and well-being of all persons.]

For More Information please call or email:

President O'Linda Watkins-McSurely (910)603-4121 odw3220@gmail.com

Communications Chair Kevin Smith (910)273-3522 kevinasmith@gmx.com

Extremist lawmakers in North Carolina are trying to pass a Trojan horse budget that uses Medicaid expansion as a decoy to distract from how terrible it truly is. They’re cloaking the budget in what on the surface looks like compromise and civility so that others won’t see how it will directly harm poor and low-income people across the state.

That’s why we’re returning to the People’s House to tear this budget apart and let the General Assembly know that we won’t be silent anymore. We need to bear witness and educate voters about what’s at stake for North Carolinians and why we can’t tolerate this policy violence.  RSVP HERE

Teach-In @ the People's House!

Wednesday, May 24 @ 12pm

NC General Assembly, 16 W. Jones Street in Raleigh NC

The people need to know that the NC General Assembly is once again poised to pass a budget on the backs of poor North Carolinians, and there is an avalanche of possible legislative attacks still to come even as we should be in the final weeks of the session. It’s time for the NC General Assembly to go home.

We must hold the line on this budget and the attacks on immigrants, the environment, voting rights, LGBTQIA rights, women’s rights, health care and public education. We have to send a message that the people are watching and we understand the many Trojan horses buried in the NC Senate's proposed budget and pending legislation, especially a shameful and radical redistribution of public school funds to private school vouchers for wealthy North Carolinians.

On April 24th, the Moral Monday Ten-Year Anniversary and Recommitment Rally was stopped at the gate of the People's House. This time we're coming midday and going inside the People's House for a teach-in led by North Carolinians directly impacted by the policies being passed in Our House.  Faith leaders and policy experts will also be shining light on how the state budget will have massive impacts on all of us. Join Repairers of the Breach, the North Carolina Poor People’s Campaign and partners to make sure the leadership of the NC General Assembly knows we won’t be silent or unheard anymore.

RSVP now for the Teach-In and please spread the word in your networks! Download a graphic Here.

Forward Together! Not One Step Back!

Bishop William J. Barber, II, President and Senior Lecturer, Repairers of the Breach

Rev. Kazimir Brown, Executive Director, Repairers of the Breach

Dr. Hanna Broome, Director of Religious Affairs, Repairers of the Breach

Rev. Rob Stephens, Organizer for Repairers of the Breach

For the soul of our democracy, we are continuing the push for a moral revival and the realization of a Third Reconstruction. If you believe in living wages, ending poverty, fully funding public education, universal health care, environmental justice, voting rights, women’s rights, immigrant rights, criminal justice reform, gun control, then save April 24 on your calendar!

Monday, April 24, 2023 @ 5:30pm

NC State Capitol - 1 E. Morgan Street, Raleigh, NC 

Calling all justice-loving North Carolinians to Raleigh on the last Monday in April for a Moral Monday Ten-Year Anniversary and Recommitment Rally! Ten years ago, seventeen North Carolinians walked into the NC General Assembly to bear witness to the immoral attacks on the most vulnerable residents of our state. Soon thousands came together at our legislature and informed a new vision for our state. The movement went on to see one of the largest direct action campaigns at a state legislature in US history, with over 1,000 people arrested while demanding North Carolina’s leaders do right by its people. 

Ten years later, the leadership of the NC General Assembly is still hell-bent on scape-goating some of us to distract from their agenda to consolidate power and money in fewer and fewer hands. Already the NCGA has passed laws criminalizing protests and organizers, stripping protections from poor families who have resorted to hotels for shelter and making it easier to get a gun. And the attacks are only going to get worse as the session continues this spring. Some things are still bigger than Republican and Democrat or Left and Right. We are coming back to Raleigh to demand our leaders govern from the moral center and  from our state constitution’s mandate for “the good of the whole.” 

Join us for this rally of recommitment to restore and realize the promises of our democracy. Ten years ago, we stood together, withstood some of the most extreme attacks on democracy since Jim Crow, made significant change and helped bring North Carolina new leadership and moral vision. Let’s stand together again and continue to build a People’s Moral Fusion Movement in North Carolina for the next decade to come. What we said a decade ago still speaks to our predicaments:

Excerpt from Why We Are Here, April 29, 2013

“We are calling together a coalition of goodwill, a nonviolent volunteer army of love, to oppose this legislature’s heartless, ideologically driven agenda.  We call on all people of goodwill to join us, so that we might build the bridges of understanding, not the walls of division.  We call on all residents of North Carolina who believe in the common good to pray and partner with us as we use the tools of protest and the tactics of nonviolent moral suasion to illuminate for the nation the shameful acts taking place here. We are not alone. We shall speak and we shall act.  We will become “the trumpet of conscience” and “the beloved community” that Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called upon us to be, echoing the God of our mothers and fathers in the faith.  Now is the time.  Here is the place. We are the people.  And we will be heard.”

There will be a round-trip bus to the 10 Year Anniversary Celebration in Raleigh, NC on Monday, April 24. The Bus will depart from the Southern Pines Cultural Arts Center (1250 W New York Ave.) at 2:30 pm and return at approximately 9:30 pm.

The Bus is free, all we ask is that you sign up using this link.

PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Date: February 8, 2023

From: The Sandhills Coalition for Peace, Love & Justice

Contact: Barbara Rothbeind, Charles Oldham

A new coalition has been formed to respond to recent acts of racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia and intolerance in our community. The Sandhills Coalition for Peace, Love, and Justice has formed for the purpose of promoting fellowship among the people of Moore County. The ideology of hate demonstrated by the placement of banners over one of the main entranceways into Pinehurst and Southern Pines and the December attack on our electrical grid has stirred the group into action.

 

The Coalition for Peace, Love and Justice is spearheaded by a diverse group of community leaders. Barbara Rothbeind of the Sandhills Jewish Congregation, Charles Oldham of Sandhills Pride and O’Linda Watkins-McSurely of the Moore County NAACP are founding members along with members of other non-partisan faith and cultural organizations. Recognizing that silence can be construed as complicity, the Coalition members are calling on individuals, political, business and faith leaders to join with them and strongly condemn such acts of hatred.

 

On Dec. 18, the first day of Chanukah, an anti-Semitic, racist and homophobic banner was flown over U.S. Highway 1 in Vass and on Christmas morning, Dec. 25, another hateful message was flown over U.S. Highway 1 in Cameron. In July a white-supremacist banner appeared on that same bridge in Vass. As far back as July of 2015 racist graffiti was painted on three bridges over U.S. Highway 1 near Vass and Cameron.

 

https://www.wral.com/another-antisemitic-banner-hanukkah-bookended-by-messages-of-hate-in-moore-county/20643951/

 

An event entitled “Take Back the Bridge” is planned for Feb. 14 from 10 am to noon. It will take place near the NC-690/Lobelia Road Bridge over U.S. Highway 1 in Vass. The event will honor the Town of Vass for its courageous proclamation unequivocally denouncing hate in all forms. Local elected officials along with our state representatives have received invitations to stand alongside Moore County residents. All persons of good will are welcome to attend.

 

For further information or to join the coalition, please contact;

Barbara Rothbeind at:Barbara.rothbeind@gmail.com  (910) 603-0600 or

Charles Oldham at oldhamlegal@yahoo.com (704) 572-3372

   

The Mission of the Sandhills Coalition for Peace, Love, and Justice is to act as a positive force against discrimination, intolerance and hatred of all kinds through education and action.

We’re Sorry the bus is

The bus will leave from The Southern Pines African American Cultural Arts and Business Center (1250 W New York Ave., Southern Pines, NC 28387) at approximately 2:45 a.m. for Washington, DC, and return at approximately 9:00 p.m. The event in Washington will include music, an assembly with delegations from across the United States, and a march to make our voices heard.

1250 W New York Avenue, Southern Pines, NC 28387

*REMINDER*

On Election Day, May 17th, you MUST go to your assigned polling place.
Call the Board of Elections 947‐3868 if you need assistance.
Hours: 6:30 a.m. - 7:30 pm.

Find Your Polling Place Here

For a ride to the polls on May 1st, 2022, contact Moore County NAACP at 910-603-4121.

Join the Moore County NAACP on Sunday, May 1, for Souls to the Polls. The MC NAACP pushed hard for a decade for Sunday voting so that the marginalized people of Moore County with mobility or transportation could go to their polling places with the aid and comfort of their faith communities. You can read a little bit about the Souls to the Polls tradition here.

What: Moore County School Board Candidates Forum

Where: Pinehurst Village Hall
395 Magnolia Rd
Pinehurst, NC 28374
(virtual/streaming option TBA)

When: Thursday, April 21st at 7:00pm

Moore County NAACP is proud to join the League of Women Voters of Moore County and PSA: Public Schools Advocates in hosting the Moore County School Board Candidates Forum. Join us to hear from candidates running for the board of education.

Join us for a prayer vigil for those suffering through the horrors of war.
Saturday, April 2, 2022
Downtown Park in Southern Pines
145 SE Broad St., Southern Pines, NC 28387

Over eight years ago Moral Monday was born when hundreds of people from all races, faiths, sexual
identities, and political affiliations, came from hundreds of miles, from the mountains to the coast. Almost
one thousand bore moral witness through non-violent civil disobedience, and thousands of others came to
show solidarity. We stood as one voice against the cruel policies imposed by an unconstitutional
racially-gerrymandered legislature. Today we are calling for a Moral Monday Revival to beat back the
policies that continue to plague our communities.

Please register here for March 28th Assembly

Please use the button below to sign up for a bus to and from the event.