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.