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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber,President of The North Carolina State NAACP
Invites you and your organization to
Historic K(Thousands) on Jones Street
Saturday, February 9, 2008 at 11:00 a.m.
Chavis Park 505 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. Raleigh, NC
HK on J: The People’s General Assembly
movement and not a moment. The goal of HK on J is a call by the North Carolina NAACP to the progressive and civil rights community to come together around a 14-point public policy strategy that will begin to shift North Carolina political action in a way that will more clearly match our rhetoric with reality. February 12th (2008), is the 99th birthday of the NAACP, in commemoration of a time when progressive whites and blacks came together to fi ght racial injustice and social inequality. Today our challenges revolve around the issues of education, health, labor rights, economic empowerment, civic engagement, and criminal justice.
The goal of HK on J is to get 50-100 people from 100 counties to gather in Raleigh for the General Assembly to embrace a 14-point agenda that we demand the legislature to act upon and we will insert in every political debate and discussion until they become a reality. The goal of the HK on J is to remind North Carolina that the General Assembly belongs to the people, not the powerful; to everyday folk, not just those with the money and the infl uence. HK on J will create a statewide network of the progressive and civil rights community which we will build in order to promote civil rights and a progressive agenda in North Carolina. HK on J will not be a moment, but a movement. We will gather on Saturday so that the hardworking, everyday people can come.
14 POINTS
1. All Children Need High Quality, Well Funded, Diverse Schools. NC must meet its Constitution's requirement of adequate and diverse schools by fully funding Leandro with transparent accountability and creating special leadership teams in its failing schools.
2. Livable Wages and Support for Low Income People. NC ought to provide livable wages, make sure no person goes hungry and that everyone in need has affordable, accessible childcare.
3. Health Care for All. NC ought to provide its people with health insurance and prescription drugs, while funding public health programs to treat social diseases that plague Black and poor communities including HIV/AIDS, diseases caused by environmental pollution and warming, drugs, domestic violence, mental illness, diabetes, and obesity.
4. Redress Two Ugly Chapters in N. C.'s Racist History: The overthrow of the bi-racial 1898 Wilmington Government and the sterilization of poor, mainly Black, women from 1947-1977. NC must implement its 1898 Wilmington Riot Commission recommendations and pay damages to the poor women it forcibly sterilized.
5. Same Day Registration and Public Financing of Elections.
6. Lift Every HBCU. NC must financially support our Historically Black Colleges and Universities to develop equitable infrastructure and programs with doctoral-level leadership for today's challenges.
7. Document and Redress 200 years of State Discrimination in Hiring and Contracting.
NC must commission historical documentation of its contracting practices with racial minorities to justify constitutional redress.
8. Provide Affordable Housing and Stop Consumer Abuse. NC must provide an Affordable Housing Trust Fund for low-income renters, vouchers for wounded veterans who can not find accessible housing, meaningful tax breaks for seniors forced out of their homes, and protection against predatory lending and foreclosures.
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.
NC must establish an Environmental Job Corps for young people who did not graduate from high school to re-engage them in public service. NC must fight all forms of environmental injustice.
11. Collective Bargaining for Public Employees. NC must allow its public employees' unions to negotiate work issues with their employers in a mutually-respectful manner.
12. Protect the Rights of Immigrants from Latin America and other Nations. NC must provide immigrants with health care, education, workers rights and protection from discrimination.
13. Organize, Strengthen and Provide Funding For Our Civil Rights Enforcement Agencies and Statutes Now.
14. Bring Our Troops Home from Iraq Now. NC cannot address injustice at home while we wage an unjust war abroad.
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