Although you ??re likely to have missed it in the mainstream media, there was a massive progressive protest this Saturday. A number as large as 80,000 to 100,000 progressive activists gathered in Raleigh, North Carolina to participate in the ??Moral March on Raleigh, ? to protest the extremely conservative agenda of Republican Gov. Pat McCrory and the state legislature. The event, organized by the state NAACP, featured activists from 32 states marching for a wide variety of issues: reproductive rights to voting rights, health care access, the environment and economic justice ?? all of which have been the target of the extremist political leadership in the state. |
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.