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Posted by Kim Coram | Jan 17, 2018 | Economy, Environment, Equality, Events, Moving to Conservers, Take Action!, The Gift of Time, Volunteer Opportunity
Meals on Wheels of Brevard, NC, with Board Member ...
Posted by Kim Coram | Jan 17, 2018 | Equality, NAACP News, The Gift of Time, Transylvania County Community, Volunteer Opportunity
In ‘complete victory’ for Los Angeles, judge rules DOJ can’t tie funding to cooperation with ICE
by David Williams | Apr 15, 2018 | DACA, Equality, Immigration/Deportation, Race
Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III is hell-bent on rigging the immigration courts against immigrants and due process, but in the courtrooms out of his clutches, he continues to lose:
A federal judge in Los Angeles ruled this week that the U.S. Department of Justice cannot withhold public safety, policing grants in so-called “sanctuary cities” where local law enforcement officials can choose not to turn over suspected undocumented immigrants in custody over to federal immigration authorities.
Read MoreTrump Vows “No More DACA Deal”
by David Williams | Apr 2, 2018 | DACA, Take Action!
Dreamers, part of the fabric of American life at every level, continue to be jacked around as if they don’t matter. It’s time we all said, “YES, THEY DO.” Dreamers are us and we are dreamers. It’s time.
Read MoreSign and send the petition to Congress: Congress has the power to save the census.
by David Williams | Mar 27, 2018 | DACA, Equality, Race, Take Action!, Voting and Elections
This is another chapter in the racially based playbook for the Republican game of permanent majority, minority oppression, and ethnic cleansing versus fair voting, one vote-one voice, and participation in government of the people, by the people and for the people. It is an affront to the principles of representative Democracy and a moral disgrace, no matter what rationale you hide it behind.
Read MoreNorth Carolina GOP motto: If you can’t win your case, rig the courts
by David Williams | Mar 27, 2018 | Chuck Edwards, Cody Henson, Equality, Gerrymandering, North Carolina General Assembly, Our Elected Representatives, Voting and Elections
North Carolina Republicans have been fighting for gerrymandered districts and suppressive voting laws for years. They’ve won too many victories. But they’ve also faced major defeats, principally in court. As Republicans await adjudication of a new round of critical cases—some dealing with their outrageous power-stripping moves against Gov. Roy Cooper (D)—they’ve changed their focus from laws to judges. Republicans’ sallies against individual judges are getting bolder (and more appalling).
Read MoreHow to Raise a Boy
by David Williams | Mar 26, 2018 | Equality, Op-Ed
Trained by superhero movies, inspired by planet-straddling athlete-gods and tech tycoons more powerful than entire governments, boys are reared to tame their aggressions, then asked to navigate a bleak, winner-take-all economic landscape. Thanks in part to more enlightened attitudes about gender and parenting, it is hard not to see male entitlement and aggression as toxic forces degrading our culture. But it is also hard not to notice that the world is now run by the aggressive and the bullying.
It is also hard not to notice that, in many ways, and on average, boys are falling behind.
Read MoreThe world’s most qualified women. The fight for gender equality.
by David Williams | Mar 26, 2018 | Equality, Op-Ed
To mark International Women’s Day, Quartz spoke with 50 female visionaries who’ve redefined their fields — from Emmy winner Lena Waithe to Senator Tammy Duckworth — and asked for their thoughts on eliminating the pay gap, shattering the glass ceiling, and more.
Read More‘He was a quiet and normal kid’: The infantilization of young, white male domestic terrorists
by David Williams | Mar 23, 2018 | Equality, Op-Ed, Race, Transylvania Indivisible
Enough already. That is what we should be saying to the media and to white America about its pathological need to humanize white men who commit mass shootings. It is a pattern that people of color are all too familiar with. It is a pattern that some women can see clearly. But, at this point, it should also be really familiar to anyone who is paying attention. And just like Parkland, Fla., school shooting survivor Emma Gonzalez implored us to do when it comes to our excuses about why we can’t have sensible gun control in this country, we need to unequivocally and loudly “call B.S.” each time this happens.
Read MoreCampaign Action Sign the petition to the U.S. Senate: Pass a bill to fully fund the Census Bureau and 2020 census activities.
by David Williams | Mar 18, 2018 | Mark Meadows, Our Elected Representatives, Race, Richard Burr, Take Action!, Thom Tillis, Transylvania Indivisible, Voting and Elections
The census historically undercounts communities of color, low-income people, and immigrant communities. The 2010 census failed to count over 1.5 million people of color. 1.5 million people weren’t counted when it was time to map voting districts and fund vital human services. Undercounting will have even harsher impacts on communities of color if we let Trump purposely starve the Census Bureau.
Read MoreIMMIGRATION TOOLKIT
by David Williams | Mar 15, 2018 | DACA, Equality, Immigration/Deportation
Sanctuary really is an idea central to the formation of the United States, but an inviolate idea common to all people. Hospitals, mosques, temples, churches, synagogues, cemeteries, homeless shelters, schools – all are supposed to be safe places of refuge, and to violate the principles of a nation of immigrants or the sanctity of a sanctuary, is a violation of our own humanity.
Read MoreCampaign CALL TO ACTION- Add your name: Immigrant youth can’t wait. Pass the Dream Act NOW.
by David Williams | Mar 15, 2018 | DACA, Mark Meadows, Race, Richard Burr, Take Action!, Thom Tillis, Transylvania Indivisible
On December 22, sixty-six senators, including 17 Democrats, voted to pass the year-end spending bill without the inclusion of legislative protection for undocumented youth. By voting for a spending bill without the Dream Act, our political leaders BROKE YET ANOTHER PROMISE and voted for the deportation of immigrant youth.
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Poor People's Campaign
http://berightthere.info/event/poor-peoples-campaign/All day05/13/2018-06/21/2018The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival will necessarily be a multi-year undertaking. The Summer of 2017 through the Spring of 2018 will be used as the public launching of the Campaign. By engaging in highly publicized civil disobedience and direct action over a 6-week period in at least 25 states and the District of Columbia during the Spring of 2018, the Campaign will force a serious national examination of the enmeshed evils of systemic racism, poverty, militarism and environmental devastation during a key election year while strengthening and connecting informed and committed grassroots leadership in every state, increasing their power to continue this fight long after June 2018.
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Poor People's Campaign
http://berightthere.info/event/poor-peoples-campaign/All day05/14/2018-06/21/2018The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival will necessarily be a multi-year undertaking. The Summer of 2017 through the Spring of 2018 will be used as the public launching of the Campaign. By engaging in highly publicized civil disobedience and direct action over a 6-week period in at least 25 states and the District of Columbia during the Spring of 2018, the Campaign will force a serious national examination of the enmeshed evils of systemic racism, poverty, militarism and environmental devastation during a key election year while strengthening and connecting informed and committed grassroots leadership in every state, increasing their power to continue this fight long after June 2018.
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Poor People's Campaign
http://berightthere.info/event/poor-peoples-campaign/All day05/15/2018-06/21/2018The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival will necessarily be a multi-year undertaking. The Summer of 2017 through the Spring of 2018 will be used as the public launching of the Campaign. By engaging in highly publicized civil disobedience and direct action over a 6-week period in at least 25 states and the District of Columbia during the Spring of 2018, the Campaign will force a serious national examination of the enmeshed evils of systemic racism, poverty, militarism and environmental devastation during a key election year while strengthening and connecting informed and committed grassroots leadership in every state, increasing their power to continue this fight long after June 2018.
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Poor People's Campaign
http://berightthere.info/event/poor-peoples-campaign/All day05/16/2018-06/21/2018The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival will necessarily be a multi-year undertaking. The Summer of 2017 through the Spring of 2018 will be used as the public launching of the Campaign. By engaging in highly publicized civil disobedience and direct action over a 6-week period in at least 25 states and the District of Columbia during the Spring of 2018, the Campaign will force a serious national examination of the enmeshed evils of systemic racism, poverty, militarism and environmental devastation during a key election year while strengthening and connecting informed and committed grassroots leadership in every state, increasing their power to continue this fight long after June 2018.
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Poor People's Campaign
http://berightthere.info/event/poor-peoples-campaign/All day05/17/2018-06/21/2018The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival will necessarily be a multi-year undertaking. The Summer of 2017 through the Spring of 2018 will be used as the public launching of the Campaign. By engaging in highly publicized civil disobedience and direct action over a 6-week period in at least 25 states and the District of Columbia during the Spring of 2018, the Campaign will force a serious national examination of the enmeshed evils of systemic racism, poverty, militarism and environmental devastation during a key election year while strengthening and connecting informed and committed grassroots leadership in every state, increasing their power to continue this fight long after June 2018.
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NAACP’s Transylvania Together Podcast
- The Opposite of Addiction, with Jim Hardy
- Meals on Wheels of Brevard, NC, with Board Member Sasha Jones
- The Community Side of Recidivism - Meet Peter McKinney
- Meet Mark Burrows, Director of Transylvania County Planning and Community Development
- Meet Nicola Karesh, a Writer, Poet, Community Activist and a Playful Spirit
- Meet Kyle Tinsley, Graduate of Brevard High School and former leader of the Acceptance Club
- Meet Bobby Jones of Cedar Mountain, NC. His grandfather was Solomon Jones of Solomon Jones Road, the road to Pretty Place.
- Meet the founder of Transylvania Indivisible. David Williams.
- How the Affordable Care Act (ACA) helped Cedar Mountain, NC get a new cafe
- Meet Dal Davis, a student at Brevard College.