NAACP - Historic Thousands on Jones Street (HK on J)

Tomorrow, February 10th, 11:00 starting at the Progress Energy Center (Old Raleigh Memorial Auditorium)and ending at the Legislative Building on Jones Street, The North Carolina Chapter of the NAACP is hosting a truly historic march in Raleigh to raise awareness of their "People's Agenda"

Thousands of people from across the state will be participating. I will proudly be among them and I hope you can join us too.

THE PEOPLE'S AGENDA: 14 POINTS

1. All Children Need High Quality, Well Funded, Diverse Schools.
2. Livable Wages and Support for Low Income People.
3. Health Care for All.
4. Redress Two Ugly Chapters in NC's Racist History: The overthrow of the bi-racial 1898 Wilmington Government and the sterilization of poor, mainly Black, women from 1947- 1977.
5. Same Day Registration and Public Financing of Elections.
6. Lift Every Historically Black College and University.
7. Document and Redress 200 years of State Discrimination in Hiring and Contracting.
8. Provide Affordable Housing and Stop Consumer Abuse.
9. Abolish Racially Biased Death Penalty and Mandatory Sentencing Laws; Reform our Prisons.
10. Put Young People to Work to Save the Environment and Fight for Environmental Justice.
11. Collective Bargaining for Public Employees.
12. Protect the Rights of Immigrants from Latin America and other Nations.
13. Organize, Strengthen and Provide Funding For Our Civil Rights Enforcement Agencies and Statutes Now.
14. Bring Our Troops Home from Iraq Now.

See you there!