whose house?
One year anniversary of Moral Monday's beginning, and protestors are sitting in at NCGA House Speaker's office after his continued refusal to meet and discuss issues. Some clergy, with mainly low-wage fast-food workers. (@RaiseUpFor15, #OrganizeTheSouth) Sleeping bags pulled out. Vans are rolling in downstairs, so arrests are probably imminent.
Fourth warning from Capitol police, 2 minutes ago, according to Twitter.
ETA (23:15): Still no arrests. Looks like they may be trying to wait protestors out. Protestors with sleeping bags. And pizza.
ETA2 (23:30): From last week, Monday 1 of the 2014 Legislative Session:
www.carolinamercury.com
Other photos under here:
Note: I did not take these. Once again, all of them were yoinked from the Carolina Mercury's FB album. Also, #moralmonday and #forwardtogether will get you some photos from today.
ETA3 (0730 5.28.14) - Fourteen of the "Tillis 15" protestors were arrested just before 2 a.m. after 8 warnings from the Capitol police. It sounds like most have been processed and released, at this point. This was the outgrowth of a lobbying day when Moral Monday activists tried to meet with every member of the NC legislature to discuss concerns about last year's legislation decimating voting rights, teacher pay, health care, unemployment benefits and the environment. Thom Tillis never came back to his office to meet with them. He's a US Senate candidate in November's elections, running against Sen. Kay Hagan. We've had a ton of dark money already poured into the state from outside sources to support him.
This entry was originally posted at Dreamwidth.
Fourth warning from Capitol police, 2 minutes ago, according to Twitter.
ETA (23:15): Still no arrests. Looks like they may be trying to wait protestors out. Protestors with sleeping bags. And pizza.
ETA2 (23:30): From last week, Monday 1 of the 2014 Legislative Session:
www.carolinamercury.com
Other photos under here:
Note: I did not take these. Once again, all of them were yoinked from the Carolina Mercury's FB album. Also, #moralmonday and #forwardtogether will get you some photos from today.
ETA3 (0730 5.28.14) - Fourteen of the "Tillis 15" protestors were arrested just before 2 a.m. after 8 warnings from the Capitol police. It sounds like most have been processed and released, at this point. This was the outgrowth of a lobbying day when Moral Monday activists tried to meet with every member of the NC legislature to discuss concerns about last year's legislation decimating voting rights, teacher pay, health care, unemployment benefits and the environment. Thom Tillis never came back to his office to meet with them. He's a US Senate candidate in November's elections, running against Sen. Kay Hagan. We've had a ton of dark money already poured into the state from outside sources to support him.
This entry was originally posted at Dreamwidth.