Action Items and Calendar Alerts
Tom Fewel
In addition to the action items here and the calendar alerts below, check out the attachments: an appeal from Ben Jealous to support the Employee Free Choice Act and a message about action against hate speech from Linda Gomaa. If you have items for the HKonJ OC calendar, send them to me with HKonJ OC Calendar in the subject line.
HKonJ OC web site in progress. Please send me corrections and suggestions. If your Partners page listing does not yet link to your web site, please send me the URL.
Calendar alerts follow. The OCOC action on April 15 is an opportunity to unite in action with other folks who love justice. Several of our HKonJ partners are also members of OCOC. If you plan to attend the April 15 meeting, please let me know. If you want more information about the event or about OCOC, contact Tish Galu, ga...@bellsouth.net
Peace, Tom
Events of Interest to HKonJ OC Partners
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
6:45 pm
Living Wage Policy for Town of Chapel Hill Employees
Chapel Hill Town Hall, 405 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
The Orange County Organizing Committee encourages us to join them in once more asking the Chapel Hill Town Council to include a living wage policy in its budget. This action is one way for us to respond to the message not to balance budgets on the backs of the poor. For a summary of OCOC's research, their proposal for change, and their call to action see OCOC Action Alert: Living Wage Policy for Town of Chapel Hill Employees.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
11:00 am – 7:00 pm
Latino-Multicultural Festival
Carrboro Commons
Sponsored by the Human Rights Center, Chapel Hill & Carrboro. For additional information contact Judith Blau.
Tom Fewel
Events of Interest to HKonJ OC Partners
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
6:00 pm
No Space for Hate in Our Community!
The Pit, UNC Campus
Join
with students organizing a counter-demonstration targeting the Youth for
Western Civilization (YWC) event that brings Tom Tancredo to UNC Chapel Hill.
YWC describes itself as a youth movement that is opposed to "trendy multiculturalism"
and aims to "take over student governments." They are bringing Tom
Tancredo to speak on, in the words of UNC YWC president Riley Matheson,
"illegal immigration and the disastrous effects it has on our American
society." Tancredo's message echoes that of the group, stating "We
will never be able to win in the clash of civilizations, if we don't know who
we are. If Western civilization succumbs to the siren song of multiculturalism,
I believe we're finished."
Note the updated location, the Pit, and start time, 6:00 pm
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
6:45 pm
Living Wage Policy for Town of Chapel Hill Employees
Chapel Hill Town Hall, 405 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
The Orange County Organizing Committee encourages us to join them in once more asking the Chapel Hill Town Council to include a living wage policy in its budget. This action is one way for us to respond to the message not to balance budgets on the backs of the poor. For a summary of OCOC's research, their proposal for change, and their call to action see OCOC Action Alert: Living Wage Policy for Town of Chapel Hill Employees.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
11:00 am – 7:00 pm
Latino-Multicultural Festival
Carrboro Commons
Sponsored by the Human Rights Center, Chapel Hill & Carrboro. For additional information contact Judith Blau.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
7:00 pm
Community Meeting on the Impact of Greenbridge on the Northside Neighborhood
St. Joseph CME Church, 510 West Rosemary Street, Chapel Hill
"Northside
is not a remnant of a quaint past. It is the home of many African-Americans and
increasingly diverse neighbors who have fought hard for social equity and
economic parity. The Town of Chapel
Hill is now in a position to ensure respectful,
responsible partnerships between the Town, local developers, and citizen
neighbors. We have a chance to set a truly historic precedent, largely by
listening not only to the histories but the visions of community members."
Read an open letter to Town of Chapel Hill and Greenbridge
Partners from the Steering Committee of United with the Northside Community
Now.