Before you go and portray myself and thousands of other folks across North Carolina as "phony" citizen activists, may I direct you to something you may be more familiar with.
YOUR OWN HKONJ RALLY.
In a struggle for relevancy, you had to get 80 (WRAL says 100) front group/non-profit leftist partners to parade around downtown Raleigh earlier this month as "real" citizen activists. And at best you could only muster a crowd in the hundreds.
Who's phony now?
Partners for HK on J
AARP North Carolina
ACLU of North Carolina
ACORN: Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now: North Carolina
AFL-CIO of North Carolina
AME Zion Church
American Friends Service Committee Southeast Region
Black Workers for Justice
Carolina Justice Policy Center
Center for Community Change
Center for Responsible Lending
Charles M Jones Peace & Justice Committee of the Community Church of Chapel Hill Unitarian Universalist
Common Cause North Carolina
Common Sense Foundation of NC
Community Reinvestment Association of NC
Community Success Initiative of NC - Building communities for success
Covenant Community Church of Raleigh
Dancy Communications Network
Democracy NC
Durham Bill of Rights Defense Committee
Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People
Durham People's Alliance
El Pueblo, Inc.
Farmworkers Advocacy Network
Fayetteville Peace March & Rally March 17, 2007
Fayetteville Peace With Justice
General Baptist State Convention of North Carolina
Good Work
Grand Chapter Order of Eastern Star, NC
Grassroots Energy Alliance
Hispanicliaison.org
HK on J: The People's General Assembly
HOLLA - Helping Our Loved Ones Learn and Achieve
Institute of Minority Economic Development
International Worker Justice Campaign
Masonic Lodge 21st District
Muhammad's Mosque No. 79
Muslim-American Society Freedom Foundation
MWPHGLNC.COM: Grand Lodge of Prince Hall Masonic Order
National Chapter of Greenville Industrial CMS High School Alumni Association
NC Association of Women in Ministry
NC Community Development Initiative
NC Council of Churches
NC Harm Reduction Coalition
NC HOPE Coalition
NC Minority Support Center
NC Public Service Workers Union
NC WARN
North Carolina - Common Cause
North Carolina Association of Community Development Corporations
North Carolina Black Leadership Caucus
North Carolina Coalition for a Moratorium
North Carolina Environmental Justice Network
North Carolina Fair Share
North Carolina Justice Center
North Carolina Stop Torture Now
Old North State Medical Society
Olin T. Binkley Memorial Baptist Church
Opportunities Industrial Center
Orange County Bill of Rights Defense Committee
Passage Home
People of Color Coalition Partners
People of Faith Against the Death Penalty
Progressive Democrats of North Carolina
Raleigh Martin Luther King Day Steering Committee
Rubta House
Self-Help: Creating Ownership and Economic Opportunity, Durham, NC
Southeast Regional Economic Justice Network
Southern Anti-Racism Network
Southern Faith, Labor, and Community Alliance
Southerners for Economic Justice
St. Francis Of Assisi: The Franciscan Coalition of NC
Student Action with Farmworkers
Teamsters Local 391 Home Page
Traction
Triangle Greens
Triangle Lost Generation Task Force
Triangle Urban League
UFCW United Food and Commercial Workers
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom