social justice
A free and public discussion on civic engagement, civil disobedience, and political protest is scheduled for 3 p.m. Sunday, April 29, at Hargraves Center, 216 N. Roberson St.
"From Counters to Camps: Social Justice Activism in a Changing World" is organized by the Town of Chapel Hill Justice in Action Committee and the Chapel Hill Public Library. The public is encouraged to attend and participate in a question and answer period following a panel presentation. The discussion will be videotaped for future airing on Chapel Hill Gov TV-18, the government access channel on Time Warner Cable.
The panel will be moderated by former Council member Sally Greene, and includes the following presenters: Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt; Rev. Robert Campbell, president of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP; Al McSurely, civil rights lawyer and activist; Maya Handa, Chapel Hill High School senior (with her AP government and civics education teacher, Jen Ballew); Steve Peterson, member of Occupy Chapel Hill; and Jeremy Collins, UNC-Chapel Hill law student and president of the Black Law Students Association.
Date:
Sunday, April 29, 2012 - 3:00pm
Location:
Hargraves Center (216 N. Roberson St.)
Thousands of people took to the streets today in North Carolina’s capital city. HK on J (Historic Thousands on Jones Street) is an annual civil rights and progressive issue-based march in Raleigh, NC. The 6th annual march happened yesterday morning. It was really empowering to see so many people there supporting equality, voting rights, and social justice. And it was great to see Rep. Miller marching too.
The Conference on Race, Class, Gender, and Ethnicity would
like to announce its 16th Annual Conference, “Waking Up from the
American Dream: The Sober Reality of Class in America.” On Saturday, February
25th, 2012, academics, community activists, practitioners, and students will
come together at the UNC School of Law Rotunda to contribute to the
rejuvenation of a discussion of class and inequality. We hope to encourage a
heterodox approach grounded in the intersection of an honest exploration of
class and the realities of racial, feminist, ethnic, and queer identities and
the law. For more information and to register please visit our website, http://studentorgs.law.unc.edu/crcge/conferences/2012/default.aspx.
Date:
Saturday, February 25, 2012 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
Location:
UNC School of Law, Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, 160 Ridge Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3380
On
October 6, 2011, approximately 200 members of the community gathered at East
Chapel Hill High School to participate in a “stakeholder meeting,” the second
scheduled event in a series of events associated with the drafting of the Chapel
Hill 2020 comprehensive plan. Equipped with high-tech voting devices and
packets outlining the various proposed mission statements and themes for the plan,
citizens expressed both support and concerns alike through the press of a
button.
Some, myself included, left feeling
a sense of disappointment that citizens in attendance had been given little
opportunity to verbally articulate their frustrations in any sort of forum-like
fashion. Even more, I asked myself what each of the plan’s proposed provisions
really encompassed. As a student of sociology and activist for marginalized
people, the ambiguity and overtly positive spin on the plan is worrisome.
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