Rev. William J. Barber, Tim Tyson, Darryl Hunt and Others At UNC-CH NAACP Kick-off Rally!!!
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Rob Stephens
Sep 19, 2010, 7:20:28 PM9/19/10
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Dear Friends,
Please see the information for the Rally going on UNC-CH's campus this Tuesday at 5. It's not every day that you get a line-up of some of the most prophetic voices for justice in our state on campus in this setting. Please forward widely to friends and listserves. Let me know if you have any questions at all, and hope to see you there,
Rob
Please join the UNC-Chapel Hill Chapter of the NAACP for our Kick-Off Rally:
Tuesday, September 21 at 5:00 p.m.
Lawn outside the South Building at Polk Place
Rev. William J. Barber, President of the North Carolina NAACP;
Tim Tyson, author of Blood Done Sign My Name, prominent professor, and member of the NC NAACP State Executive Committee;
Darryl Hunt, Winston-Salem native, feature of a HBO documentary and activist who was exonerated after 19 years in prison for a rape and murder he did not commit;
Michelle Laws, President of the Chapel Hill/Carrboro NAACP branch;
Erin Byrd, HKonJ activist and chair of the State NAACP Political Action Committee.
Student activists/leaders
Speakers will cover a wide range of justice movements going on across our country, state and university, including: Get Out The Vote (GOTV) campaigns, 10-2-10 (a mass mobilization of the NAACP, AFL-CIO and La Raza on Oct. 2 in Washington D.C.), Housekeepers and Labor struggles, Immigrant Rights, Criminal (In)Justice (especially in light of the recent Swecker Report that unveiled deep and wide corruption in the State Bureau of Investigation crime labs), Resegregation of Public Schools and more.
The Rally will call upon the University and local community to, as Dr. Barber stated on Friday night at a banquet honoring the first Black undergraduates, "Join the mighty stream of justice and righteousness, and break down any dams that may block it." LeRoy Fraiser, John Brandon and Ralph Fraiser broke down a dam when they registered for classes at this University, and we hope this Rally will encourage everyone to continue breaking down dams today.
For more information contact Omar Glover at ogl...@email.unc.edu or Amanda Ellis at ell...@email.unc.edu
Please see the information for the Rally going on UNC-CH's campus this Tuesday at 5. It's not every day that you get a line-up of some of the most prophetic voices for justice in our state on campus in this setting. Please forward widely to friends and listserves. Let me know if you have any questions at all, and hope to see you there,
Rob
Please join the UNC-Chapel Hill Chapter of the NAACP for our Kick-Off Rally:
Tuesday, September 21 at 5:00 p.m.
Lawn outside the South Building at Polk Place
Rev. William J. Barber, President of the North Carolina NAACP;
Tim Tyson, author of Blood Done Sign My Name, prominent professor, and member of the NC NAACP State Executive Committee;
Darryl Hunt, Winston-Salem native, feature of a HBO documentary and activist who was exonerated after 19 years in prison for a rape and murder he did not commit;
Michelle Laws, President of the Chapel Hill/Carrboro NAACP branch;
Erin Byrd, HKonJ activist and chair of the State NAACP Political Action Committee.
Student activists/leaders
Speakers will cover a wide range of justice movements going on across our country, state and university, including: Get Out The Vote (GOTV) campaigns, 10-2-10 (a mass mobilization of the NAACP, AFL-CIO and La Raza on Oct. 2 in Washington D.C.), Housekeepers and Labor struggles, Immigrant Rights, Criminal (In)Justice (especially in light of the recent Swecker Report that unveiled deep and wide corruption in the State Bureau of Investigation crime labs), Resegregation of Public Schools and more.
The Rally will call upon the University and local community to, as Dr. Barber stated on Friday night at a banquet honoring the first Black undergraduates, "Join the mighty stream of justice and righteousness, and break down any dams that may block it." LeRoy Fraiser, John Brandon and Ralph Fraiser broke down a dam when they registered for classes at this University, and we hope this Rally will encourage everyone to continue breaking down dams today.
For more information contact Omar Glover at ogl...@email.unc.edu or Amanda Ellis at ell...@email.unc.edu
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