NC Legislature Has Banned Moral Monday ‘Imminent Disturbance’ (VIDEO)

 

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North Carolina lawmakers continue to cross the line between freedom and suppression in regards to Moral Mondays. Now, they’ve passed legislation that bans “imminent disturbance. From the AFL-CIO website:

North Carolina lawmakers want to use a new gag rule to silence growing Moral Monday protests over their extremist agenda that has attacked voting rights, education, the environment, unemployed workers, health care and women’s rights.

The ?imminent disturbance? rule allows police to arrest anyone who poses a threat to create a disturbance through chants, singing or anything that might interfere with normal conversation levels at the State Legislative Building in Raleigh. In other words, just the possibility of an ?imminent disturbance? could put the civil rights, union, student, environmental and other activists in jeopardy of arrest.

But as this new AFL-CIO video shows, ?the greatest moments of America’s history were borne of ?imminent disturbance?,? from the Boston Tea Party to the women’s suffrage movement to the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and more.

Don’t expect the protests to stop, however. From the Rev. William Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP and one of the founders of the Moral Monday movement:

Speaker Thom Tillis and his aides have refused to engage in a serious discussion over the deep and weighty issues, and now they are playing a waiting game in hopes that we will lose heart, pack up and go home. But we are not here to play games. These are serious, life-and-death questions. Where can the unemployed go for help? Where can those hardworking North Carolinians without health care access go? Where can those who have been disenfranchised go?

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