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LATEST JOHN 2:16 HAPPENINGS
Raleigh, NC 27603-1718
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
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INSERT jESUS/gOD PROP
Immediate Release
20 AUGUST 2010
Clergy to Hold Day of Prayer, Clergy Summit and Prayer Meeting in Raleigh, NC to Promote Schools Excellence and Stop Resegregation.
Rev. Dr. Nancy Petty of Pullen Memorial Baptist Church and Rev. Dr. Earl Johnson of Martin Street Baptist Church will lead a steering committee of clergy which include: Rev. Portia Rochelle, President, Raleigh/Apex NAACP Branch; Rev. Anthony Davis, AME Zion Church; Rev. Lorraine Ljunggren, Pastor, St. Mark's Episcopal Church; Father Michael Hunn, Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina; Rev. Dr. T. Anthony Spearman, Pastor, Clinton Tabernacle AME Zion Church Hickory, NC and Religious Chair of the NC NAACP; Rev. Paul Anderson, Pastor, Fountain of Life Church; and David LaMotte, Program Associate for Peace, NC Council of Churches. Our purpose is to open our churches for prayer, hold a Clergy Summit and a Mass Public Prayer Meeting on August 30, 2010. The Clergy summitt will be held at Martin Street Baptist Church at 3:00 p.m. and the Mass Public Prayer Meeting at 7:00 p.m. at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church. August 30th is a historic day in Wake County. While there had been modest steps towards desegregation, on August 30, 1971, following the supreme court decision in Swann vs Charlotte-Mecklenburg, Raleigh students began more intentional and broader steps towards desgregation of public schools 17 years after Brown vs Board of Education.
Rev. Dr. Nancy Petty notes that the reason for calling this Day of Prayer and Clergy Summit is to be clear that the issues we are dealing with around public education have enormous moral, ethical, and spiritual implications. For people of faith, prayer has always been crucial to the work of social justice. Now, more than ever, we must be faithful in not only working for justice but praying for justice. And so we gather on August 30 to pray that our community and our elected leaders will stand up and speak out for ALL our children.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
ORWELL AT HIS FINEST
And Ron's to blame for the NAACP and Great Schools' (not students) temper tantrums at each meeting and the increased security costs.
If you think Ron & Co. have kept you from allowing your voice to be heard, get all social justiced up at the General Assembly and the upcoming court trials and see how it goes. Do the same exact things and see how far it gets you on the freedom of expression front. DON'T CHANGE A THING.
I wonder if Keith Sutton and Kevin Hill would encourage abandonment of the character education policy in the schools just as they've encouraged abandonment of any sense of decorum at Board of Education meetings.
Orwell would be proud.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010
SUPPORT THE WAKE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
For those of you outside of Wake County, I suspect you have heard of the challenges facing our current Wake County Board of Education. Amidst ongoing attacks by groups such as the NAACP, local organizations such as Great Schools in Wake County and statewide groups such as the NC Justice Center, they have remained loyal, steadfast and true to the promises they made to Wake County families during last fall’s elections. Sadly these groups defend a status quo policy that has resulted in a tragic 54.2% graduation rate for our socio-economically disadvantaged students in Wake County – the students they feign concern over. These failed status quo policies have and will reconcile many to a life of de-facto economic segregation.
The post-December Wake County School Board of Education has heard the concerns of Wake County residents and responded. They have pledged to end a finally unveiled “Emperor has no clothes” forced busing policy by connecting families and communities with their schools. They are working to address the critical educational shortcomings facing Wake County’s socio-economically disadvantaged students – rather than pay lip service to them.
It is not often we see elected officials, in the face of tremendous attacks, remain true to the promises they made before an election. These individuals truly have.
A local Wake County resident and friend has crafted a petition to say thanks to the Wake County School Board of Education for their work since December. It is a petition I eagerly signed.
I hope you will do so as well.
Please take a minute to go to the link below and add your name to the list. I know the members of the Wake County Board of Education will appreciate it.
You need not live in Wake County to sign the petition.
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/in-support-of-wake-county-school-board.html
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
DEAR "REVEREND" BARBER....
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
HKONJ?
HKONJ? Hardly.
Thousands .... No
Historic ..... No - just a lot of regurgitated leftism.
Only WTVD locally had the numbers correct.
It's a clever way to distort numbers. Have a decent enough crowd in the hundreds and the media will just go along with the "Historic Thousands" mantra.
A far cry from the crowds during last year's election cycle. Of course that was a MBM - money based movement.
You can check out the video footage from YouTube here:
Actual march footage
Actual march footage from a distance
General organizational footage from Chavis Park
Reverend Curtis Gatewood says blacks are still being lynched but does not tell us how
Overall video footage of crowd
The fact is that HKONJ had about 80 partner organizations and between them they only turnout a crowd in the hundreds on a decent weather day in February. WRAL says you had 100 partner groups.
On arguably one of the coldest days in January, NC Right to Life had a much larger crowd - in the actual thousands. You can see the video here.
Beyond the "Socialism Now" sign that accidentally popped up on the WRAL footage, here are some pictures of folks from other front group/non-profit partners.
