Sunday, February 9, 2014

The Protest That Nobody Knows About...

... unless you were there, because Poors!  Also, Moochers!  From Think Progress:
Somewhere between 80 to 100,000 people from 32 states turned out to protest four years of drastic state Republican initiatives in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Saturday. 
The “Moral March on Raleigh,” organized by Historic Thousands on Jones Street (HKonJ), marched from Shaw University to the state capitol to push back against the “immoral and unconstitutional policies” of Republican Gov. Pat McCrory during the 2013 NC General Assembly session. Since North Carolina Republicans took over both legislative chambers in 2010, legislators have eliminated a host of programs and raised taxes on the bottom 95 percent, repealed a tax credit for 900,000 working families, enforced voter suppression efforts, blocked Medicaid coverage, cut pre-Kindergarten funding, cut federal unemployment benefits, and gave itself the authority to intervene in abortion lawsuits.
Here's a photo of a portion of the march:

(Credit:  Planned Parenthood)

We don't recall seeing anything about this on any "mainstream media" broadcast or in our "mainstream newspaper" last night or this morning.  We're shocked, shocked!

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