October 2012

Chapel Hill moves a step further toward open government with Participate Chapel Hill

Housing Diversity and Affordability in Carrboro

In observance of National Community Planning Month, the Carrboro Planning Board is sponsoring three community dialogue sessions. This year's theme is affordable housing. Each interactive dialogue session is free and open to the public. The sessions present a great opportunity to learn the facts and share your vision and ideas. Light refreshments will be available.

Monday, October 15, 7:00-9:00 pm
Housing Diversity and Affordability in Carrboro
Facilitators: Roberto Quercia (UNC Center for Community Capital) and Carley Ruff (NC Housing Coalition)
Location: Carrboro Town Hall, 301 W Main Street, Carrboro

Wednesday, October 24, 7:00-9:00 pm
Financial and Systemic Issues Affecting Housing Affordability and Access in Carrboro
Facilitators: Bill Rohe (UNC Department of City and Regional Planning) and Carley Ruff (NC Housing Coalition)
Location: OWASA Community Room, 400 Jones Ferry Road, Carrboro

Tuesday, October 30, 7:00-9:00 pm
Creative and Collaborative Solutions: Case Studies and Community Visioning
Facilitators: Jamie Rohe (Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness) and Carley Ruff (NC Housing Coalition)
Location: Century Hall, Carrboro Century Center, 100 N Greensboro Street, Carrboro

Questions? Contact Bethany Chaney at bethany.e.chaney@gmail.com.

Date:

Monday, October 15, 2012 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location:

301 W Main Street, Carrboro (Carrboro Town Hall)

Events

Financial and Systemic Issues Affecting Housing Affordability and Access in Carrboro

Questions? Contact Bethany Chaney at bethany.e.chaney@gmail.com.

Date:

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location:

400 Jones Ferry Road, Carrboro (OWASA Community Room)

Events

Creative and Collaborative Solutions: Case Studies and Community Visioning

Questions? Contact Bethany Chaney at bethany.e.chaney@gmail.com.

Date:

Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location:

100 N Greensboro Street, Carrboro (Carrboro Century Center)

Events

Hunter Rawlings, pres of AAU, talks on the future of public research universities and UNC's situation.

WATCH: Valerie Foushee on Public Service

Just wanted to share Valerie Foushee's new video on public service. It's a powerful look at how, growing up in Orange County, her parents instilled in the values of education and listening.

If you like the video, I hope you'll share it with friends and neighbors. Valerie has been a great representative for Orange County and I'm looking forward to what she does in Raleigh.

Orange County Transit Referendum - Public Forum

The UNC Roosevelt Institute is hosting a speaker panel + Q&A on Monday, Oct. 8th at 7 p.m. in Howell 104. Speakers will discuss how the 1/2-cent transit sales tax will work in Orange County, why it's necessary for our transit future in the Triangle, and the economic and environmental benefits of making these investments.
Parking available on campus at Cobb Parking Deck or at the Wallace Deck at 150 E. Rosemary Street. Howell Hall is located between the Morehead Planetarium and E. Cameron Avenue; map available here.
SPEAKERS:
- Bernadette Pelissier, Chair of the Orange County Board of Commissioners
- Bill Rohe, Boshamer Distinguished Professor of City and Regional Planning and Director of the UNC Center for Urban and Regional Studies
- Aaron Nelson, President & CEO of Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce
- Travis Hargett, Volunteer Coordinator at North Carolina Sierra Club

Date:

Monday, October 8, 2012 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location:

UNC - Howell rm. 104

Planning & Transportation

transit plan

The Carrboro Citizen says goodbye, leaving a huge gap in local journalism.

Dream Up Downtown: Inspiring Innovative Spaces moving conversation

Tonight, the Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership held its 2nd of four moving conversations inspired by urbanist and community activist Jane Jacobs. This moving conservation, called Inspiring Innovative spaces, focused on existing and planned spaces downtown that promote interactions to spark ideas. Jacobs noted that the most successful public spaces are those with intense use nearby.

Half a Cent for Our Transit Future

In a February work session of the county commissioners, Chapel Hill mayor Mark Kleinschmidt took the podium to present a sweeping overview of the past 25 years of his town's approach to land use planning. Speaking with the didactic urgency we now expect from Kleinschmidt when he's both prepared and fired up, the mayor encouraged the commissioners to maintain their commitment to long-term planning for public transportation by adopting the Orange County transit plan.

voter reg stays strong 12,879 since Jan 1, and 5,048 since Aug 1

With one week of regular voter registration left (ends Friday the 12th, a full business week for the Board of Elections plus Friday is just a postmark deadline for those mailing in their forms) plus the two week registration period at early voting, here are the new voter registration numbers for Orange, both since January 1 (also includes the Amendment One drives) and just this fall.

Morgan Creek Festival

Join Morgan Creek Valley Alliance supporters and the Chapel Hill Stormwater Management Division to celebrate one of Chapel Hill's natural treasures -- Morgan Creek! The Morgan Creek Festival will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, at N.C. Botanical Garden, 100 Old Mason Farm Road. The festival will feature music by Tim Stanbaugh and Friends; a presentation on the natural history of Morgan Creek by Johnny Randall; exploration of Meeting-of-the-Waters Creek for kids and parents; a guided hike with Mark Chilton to learn more about historical mills of Morgan Creek; birding with New Hope Audubon's Tom Driscoll; and a guided plant walk with Dave Otto. For more information about Morgan Creek, visit www.morgancreek.org and www.townofchapelhill.org/index.aspx?page=1897.

Date:

Saturday, October 20, 2012 - 1:00pm to 5:00pm

Location:

N.C. Botanical Garden, 100 Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill

More Information:

http://www.morgancreek.org

Environment

Morgan Creek

Chapel Hill Special Topics Session: Large Crowd Management

The Town of Chapel Hill Special Topics sessions continue for the community with a presentation on large crowd management at noon Wednesday, Oct. 17, in the Council Chamber of Town Hall, 405 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. The public is welcome and encouraged to attend.
Chapel Hill public safety leadership has gained attention for its unique ability to manage large crowd celebrations. Police Chief Chris Blue and Fire Chief Dan Jones will discuss some of the strategies that Chapel Hill employs to manage such large scale events.

From Halloween to NCAA basketball championships, large crowds in downtown Chapel Hill can easily soar to the tens of thousands of people. Enormous crowds confined in a congested half-mile stretch of Franklin Street can present public safety concerns related to personal and property crime, crowd panic and large scale civil disorders. Additional concerns focus on alcohol poisoning, injuries and gang-related violence.

The presentation will be followed by a question and answer session.

Chief Blue began work with the Town of Chapel Hill in 1997. A UNC graduate who grew up in Chapel Hill, he is married with two daughters.

Chief Jones came to Chapel Hill from Florida in 1990 to become fire chief. He has 38 years of experience in the fire service, rising through the ranks. His wife and daughter are teachers, and his son-in-law is a police officer.

The Special Topics series began during the Chapel Hill 2020 comprehensive planning process as a way to share information with interested residents who want to know more about issues, trends and studies that affect the future. For past topics, see www.townofchapelhill.org/video

The public event will be aired live on Chapel Hill Government TV-18 and streamed on the Town of Chapel Hill website at www.townofchapelhill.org/index.aspx?page=1850. For more information about the special topic series, contact Catherine Lazorko at clazorko@townofchapelhill.org or 919-969-5055.

Date:

Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - 12:00pm

Location:

Council Chamber, Chapel Hill Town Hall

Government

October Open Editors Meeting

Date:

Sunday, October 21, 2012 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm

Location:

Tru Deli & Wine (114 Henderson Street, Chapel Hill)

UNC releases report analyzing public participation in Chapel Hill 2020

"New Chapel Hill website works on transparency" via DTH. Participate Chapel Hill website needs work.

Chapel Hill Town Council Hears From Citizens On Bus Ad Policy

In a fairly crowded business meeting tonight, the Chapel Hill Town Council member heard from more than 30 members of the public on Chapel Hill Transit's current bus advertising policy. Contraversy around the ad was sparked by the placement of an ad by the Church of the Reconciliation urging the end of U.S. military aid to Israel. Speakers included several members of the Church of the Reconciliation, the director of the N.C. ACLU and local Jewish leaders among others.

The central question on the issue was whether the transit system consitituted a "public forum." This is important because under Supreme Court precedent regulations on speech in public forums are subject to greater scrutiny than regulations on speech in non-public forums.

Welcome back, Dwight!

I have no idea what the story is behind this, but I bet it's interesting. Seven months after resigning as the head of Economic Development for the Town of Chapel Hill and taking effectively the same position for the City of Raleigh, Dwight Basset has come back to his old job. I wonder how all those people who blamed his departure on Chapel Hill's supposed E.D. failings will interpret this?

Personally I hope Bassett returns with some fresh ideas about local economies and especially about citizen particpation, which is one area where Chapel Hill has a lot to learn from Raleigh.

Some highlights from the Town's announcement:

Dwight Bassett will return to the Town of Chapel Hill as Economic Development Officer (EDO) and part of the Town team devoted to policy and strategic initiatives supporting the goals of Chapel Hill 2020, Town Manager Roger Stancil announced today (Monday, Oct. 15).

Early voting updates

Wanted to start a space where everyone could report their voting experiences. I was voter #19 at Rams Head this afternoon (10/18, first day of early voting) at about 12:08, and while it wasn't crazy busy, there was a steady flow of voters. The woman who voted after me asked me to take her picture as she filed her ballot because it was her first time voting — thought that was very cool.

Getting Everyone On Board -- Our Obligation to Children in Poverty

Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund gives the 2012 Crown Lecturer in Ethics on income disparity and the state of America's poor children. Edelman, a graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School was the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar. In l968, she served counsel for the Poor People's Campaign, started by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In 2000, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, and the Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award for her writings. Her most recent book is called "The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small: Charting a Course for the Next Generation." The Crown Lecture in Ethics 2012 is co-sponsored by the Sulzberger Family Fund of the Center for Child and Family Policy. Free and open to the public.
Contact: Kemp, Karen 613-7394

Date:

Thursday, October 25, 2012 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm

Location:

Duke's Sanford School of Public Policy, 201 Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708

Civil Liberties

Chapel Hill Carrboro YMCA waits until no one is looking, signs 1-year management agreement with the YMCA of the Triangle

Back in March, the CHCYMCA Board of Directors stated during their board meeting that all plans to merge with the YMCA of the Triangle were on indefinite hold after a commuity outcry because of the discriminatory practices of the YMCA of the Triangle. More on this story can be found in this OP post, this post, and this post.

However, members of the Chapel Hill Carrboro YMCA received this email from the interim CEO yesterday (Oct. 18th, 2012):

Still Walking for Justice - Welcoming Rally in Chapel Hill

I'm really excited to see this event going on that will highlight several important civil rights threads in our local community, including the Journey of Reconciliation. See this post to learn more about the historic first freedom riders and how they were attacked and arrested in downtown Chapel Hill in 1947.

Here's the official flyer:

STILL WALKING FOR JUSTICE
Commemorating the 65th Anniversary of the 1947 Journey of Reconciliation - The First Freedom Ride
Saturday, November 3, 2012
10 a.m. Send Off Rally in Durham
Corner of W. Chapel Hill & Carroll Streets
Pauli Murray Historic Marker
3:30 p.m. Welcome Rally in Chapel Hill
Corner of W. Columbia and W. Rosemary Streets
Journey of Reconciliation Historic Marker
More Information: 919/613-6167
www.paulimurrayproject.org

Nine Teams of Women will be walking from the Pauli Murray Historic Marker in Durham to the 1947 Journey of Reconciliation Historic Marker in Chapel Hill. They will walk for Pauli Murray, Ella Baker and Juanita Nelson who helped plan the 1947 action but could not participate because of their gender. They will also walk for Virginia Williams, Joanne Preiss, Charlotte Adams & Mildred Ringwalt, Ann Atwater and Doris Lyons, local women activists whose stories we need to know. The 1947 Journey, known as the First Freedom Ride prior to the 1961 Freedom Rides, had nine white and black men. It included Bayard Rustin, use non-violent direct action to test the 1946 Irene Morgan v State of Virginia U.S. Supreme Court ruling desegregating interstate bus and train travel.

Why Are We Still Walking?
The work continues. Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender and Queer rights, voting rights, prisoners’ rights, women’s rights, and civil rights are still on the line and require our vigilance to protect them. The Walk also shows how we can use history to activate memory and motivation for contemporary activism.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere
– Martin Luther King Jr.

Sponsored by the Pauli Murray Project and the Bayard Rustin Centennial Project of the National Black Justice Coalition with support from the Chapel Hill Friends Meeting, the Southern Oral History Program at UNC-CH, Carolwoods Elders for Peace and the Marion Cheek Jackson Center.
http://www.nbjc.org

Date:

Saturday, November 3, 2012 - 10:00am to 3:30pm

Location:

Durham to Chapel Hill

More Information:

http://paulimurrayproject.org/

Civil Liberties

Transportation Advisory Committee Public Hearing on Transportation Plan

Date:

Wednesday, November 14, 2012 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location:

Committee Room, 2nd Floor of Durham City Hall, 101 City Hall Plaza, Durham

Growth & Development

Final new voter total 15,213 pre-early vote

Final totals from the Orange County Board of Elections for new voter registration through the 10/12 cutoff show the following

D 6,208 40.81%

R 2,071 13.61%

U 6,783 44.59%

L 153 1.01%

TOTAL 15,213

of note -- I've been following this here since 1971, and 2012 is the first year that the Ds were not #1 in new voter registration, but also the 13% is a historic low for the Rs.

Will have final totals by November 5 covering those registering during early voting

OP Happy Hour & Celebration for Dan Coleman

Mark you calendar! Help us celebrate longtime community activist and Carrboro alderman Dan Coleman as he prepares for his move to Australia.

Date:

Friday, December 14, 2012 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm

Location:

Looking Glass Cafe, 601 W Main Street, Carrboro

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The Most Important Endorsement

Early voting is off to a quick start. Here is OP's traditional special-rules post to learn about your own preferences on the ballot.

The rules: Only write who you're voting for (and why, if you like). You may also list the people you would vote for if you lived in their districts. Do not refer in any way to to any candidates you are not supporting. If you don't follow the rules, your comment will be removed. You're free to critique the candidates through comments on other posts or by posting your own blog entry. In fact, you're warmly invited to do so!

Primer on Transit Referendum and Associated Transit Plan

It turns out that many people are uninformed or misinformed about the specifics of the transit tax and the plan. Foks don't even realize that there's a plan behind the tax referendum, and that a vote for the tax endorses it. If the tax passes, the BoCC and TTA have the authority to levy the tax and proceed with the plan. .

Without debating the pros and cons of transit , I hope that readers take a few minutes to understand the plan. We sent the primer below to our mailing list. It includes links to the plan and the financial information.

Primer on Transit Plan, Taxes and Fees

Voters will decide a 1/2 cent tax increase for transit. Please take a few minutes to learn about this tax and the underlying plan before you vote.

Chapel Hill Manager: Town Has Been Enforcing Incorrect Transit Advertising Policy

If you weren't paying attention at the end of the Chapel Hill Town Council meeting tonight, you might have missed some pretty shocking information. The controversial bus ad policy, the one that allowed the now-famous "end military aid to Israel" ads, was in fact not the policy adopted by Council just last year!

Here is a memo from Transit Director Steve Spade to Roger Stancil detailing the error:

When Transit needed a copy of the policy, I went to the June 13th meeting and used the policy that was included in the packet of materials rather than the policy provided in the supplemental materials that was approved by Council. As a result we have been using the draft policy rather than the one approved by the Council. In reviewing our communication since June 2011, we have consistently applied the draft policy rather than the one approved by the Council.
There were several edits in the policy approved by the Council, most significantly were the addition of two items in section 2.01 that excluded religious and political and social issue advertising.

Civil Rights in Chapel Hill Weekend

The Marian Cheek Jackson Center has spearheaded a whole weekend of civil rights celebrations in Chapel Hill. There are a ton of great events going on, I hope you can check some of them out.

Civil Rights in Chapel Hill Celebration Weekend
November 1-3

Thursday

James Wallace, Keynote Address, Photographic Angles: News Photography in the North Carolina Collection

5:00 p.m. Reception and exhibition, North Carolina Collection Gallery, Wilson Library, UNC Campus
5:30 p.m. Program, Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library, UNC Campus

Photographer Jim Wallace shares insights from his career as a photojournalist, which began in Chapel Hill when he was a student staff photographer for The Daily Tar Heel in the early 1960s. Photos of civil rights action in Chapel Hill comprise his new book Courage in the Moment: The Civil Rights Struggle, 1961-1964. For 25 years, Wallace served as director of Imaging and Photographic Services at the Smithsonian Institution.

Presented by the Center for the Study of the American South as part of its 2012-2013 James A. Hutchins Lecture Series

Friday

Continuing the Struggle: Students Making History Now with Professor Tim McMillan

12:00 p.m. UNC Campus Y

UNC students will discuss their role in making change on campus, across the street, and around the world today. What are UNC students’ particular rights, privileges, and responsibilities? What blocks or enables effective action today? What does it mean to be a student-activist? Tim McMillan, professor in the Department of African and Afro-American Studies and leader of the Black and Blue historical tour of the UNC campus will facilitate and comment. We invite you to bring lunch. Light refreshments will be served.

Sponsored by United with the Northside Community-NOW

These Were Real People – The Civil Rights History Project, a film showing

3:00 p.m. The Love House & Hutchins Forum, UNC Campus

In 2010, the Southern Oral History Program went national, interviewing civil rights movement veterans from California to New York for the Civil Rights History Project. These interviews reveal a civil rights movement—diverse, complex, and deeply personal—that persists to this day. The interviews, recorded on video, will be available to the public this fall in the Library of Congress. Until then, we’d like to share this short history of the movement through the voices of those who participated in it. Mandated by an Act of Congress in 2009, the Civil Rights History Project is a joint endeavor of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress. The video is approximately 26 minutes long, and concessions (popcorn and soft drinks) will be offered at the door.

Presented by the Southern Oral History Program at UNC

Witness to Rights: an interactive exhibit of photos by Jim Wallace

presented by the Marian Cheek Jackson Center for Saving and Making History

4:30 p.m. Exhibit Opening, 2nd floor, St. Joseph CME Church

Exhibit continues Saturday 11:00-3:00 and Sunday 10:00-3:00

Fifty years after the major civil rights action in Chapel Hill, Wallace returned to learn the names of the people featured in his photographs. Now the pictures are coming home again, and we need your help to tell their stories. Who or what do you recognize in the photos? What were you or your father, mother, sister, cousin, pastor, friend doing at the time a photo was taken? What do you think about what these pictures show? This exhibit needs your participation: please come listen, tell, write, reflect, and enjoy. Copies of Courage in the Moment will be on sale at a discounted rate, with a big thanks to Bull’s Head Bookstore.

Presented by the Marian Cheek Jackson Center for Saving and Making History

Saturday

Still Walking for Justice – A Durham to Chapel Hill Walk to commemorate the 1947 Journey of Reconciliation

10:00 a.m. Send-off Rally in Durham, Corner of W. Chapel Hill and Carroll Streets

3:30 p.m. Welcome Rally in Chapel Hill, Corner of N. Columbia and Rosemary Streets

Nine teams of women will be making the walk from the Pauli Murray Historic Marker in Durham to the Journey of Reconciliation Historic Marker in Chapel Hill. The Journey of Reconciliation is considered the First Freedom Ride, when nine white and black men used non-violent direct action to test the 1946 Supreme Court Ruling desegregating interstate bus travel. This walk is for the women that were not allowed to walk in 1947, as well as local women activists who devoted their lives to advancing equality and freedom.

Led by the Pauli Murray Project and NBJC Bayard Rustin Centennial Project

The Black Church and the Freedom Struggle with Bishop Thomas L. Hoyt Jr., Senior Bishop of the CME Church

1:00 p.m. St. Joseph CME Church

The Black church played an integral role in the civil rights movement during the 1960s. It provided both a safe space for rejuvenation as well as inspiration. What is the role of the Black church today? What stands should the church take on the continuing civil rights movement? Local and visiting clergy will share testimony about their experiences in ministries of liberation and change. Please come join in one of the most crucial conversations that we can have at this moment in U.S. history. Light refreshments and informal conversation to follow in the Fellowship Hall.

This event has been made possible by a generous donation by the Department of Religious Studies at UNC and the support of Pastor Lavisha Williams and St. Joseph CME Church.

Civil Rights Celebration Dinner featuring the Sacrificial Poets and comments by rising and resilient leaders

4:30 p.m Hargraves Recreation Center

You are cordially invited to join us in honor of people fighting for rights across our history! We’ll eat great food and revel in justice made and yet to come.

Ongoing

Rebecca Clark Honorary Electoral Drive

Longtime Pine Knolls resident and member at St. Paul’s, Rebecca Clark was renowned for her fierce commitment to achieving and using rights, not the least among them: the right to vote. In her honor, sign up now for rides to your voting location. Young people will be at every event, ready to help you make transportation plans for yourself, neighbors, and family members. Every vote counts. We can get you there!

Sponsored by the UNC Young Democrats

Living Memories Telling Stations

Have you ever marched for justice? What actually happened at Colonial Drug? What was it like to be a child or teenager during the early 60s in Chapel Hill, Carrboro? What do you think about desegregation now? What stories can you tell about the fight for rights in Chapel Hill? What’s your passion for change today?

Make YOUR story part of OUR history.

Find the telling station at each event. Take as little or as much time as you like to tell what you remember, feel, and think about local freedom struggles. Bring along a friend and share stories about yesterday and today for tomorrow.

Sponsored by United with the Northside Community-NOW

Date:

Thursday, November 1, 2012 - 5:00pm to Saturday, November 3, 2012 - 5:00pm

Location:

UNC campus, downtown Chapel Hill, & Northside

More Information:

http://www.jacksoncenter.info/community-action/events/

History

Election Protection voter education program TODAY--Sunday 3:00--University Mall

Join the Chapel Hill Justice in Action Committee, the UNC Center for Civil Rights, and UNC law students for a non-partisan presentation on voting rights. TODAY! (Sunday, Oct. 28) 3:00 pm University Mall Meeting room (across from the DMV office)

The Transit Referendum: Support and Opposition

For better or for worse, our local media works hard to give equal air time to both sides of the story. Some may fault them as giving too much voice to an opinion which represents a small minority of residents, others may thank them for giving life to a discussion. Regardless of what you think, it's sometimes difficult to cut through the noise. So where does the community stand on the whole?

Northside Resource Group convened to provide ideas for neighborhood conservation and diversification

The Marian Cheek Jackson Center, in collaboration with UNC and Self Help Credit Union, is leading a process to develop strategies to shift the Northside neighborhood's trajectory away from increasing student housing and decreasing long-term single family housing to be more diverse (in 1980 the neighborhood was 59.3% African American and by 2010 is was down to 23.8% - data from Self Help/Jackson Center).

These partners have created a Compass Group of current and former residents of Northside and other interested parties. Through meetings with this Group and conversations with Northside neighbors a list of 5 community aspirations was developed:

1. Preserving a sense of culture and community identify, as well as preserving African-American land ownership in Northside;

2. Helping long-term residents improve their housing conditions and quality of life;

3. Minimizing the negative impacts of student renters/rentals, and perhaps cooling off the student rental market;

4. Maintaining/restoring a close-knit, proud community, and

5. Building a neighborhood that attracts a diverse range of individuals and families going forward.

Kidical Mass Carrboro

Kidical Mass is a fun ride on the streets of Carrboro, starting and ending at Carrboro Elementary School. All students are welcome. The ride is organized by the ReCYCLEry.

Date:

Saturday, November 3, 2012 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm

Location:

Carrboro Elementary School

More Information:

http://www.townofcarrboro.org/MB/MO/Message%20Board%20item%20-%20Kidical%20Mass%…

Watch and discuss election results with us on OPTV

Join us on Tuesday night for first-ever OrangePolitics' live, online election show! We will webcast a discussion of the election results starting with a preview at 7:00pm on Tuesday, and continuing on each half hour until the results are in (usually by 9pm at the latest). In addition to the OP Posse (Molly De Marco, Damon Seils, Jeff Miles, and myself) we will have several elected (newly and otherwise) officials and transit advocates on with us to talk about the results and what they mean for Orange County.

Guests are also welcome to come "on the air" with us during the show and post in the live chat room via Google Plus or just watch the show live on YouTube - all from the comfort of your own home or favorite victory party. Here's an invitation to the event: https://plus.google.com/events/c3v2oph4m70p4dmb9890k3ecm0s

We will be using Google Hangouts to do this, which is free and easy but requires a Google Plus account. You can join in from any computer or laptop with a web cam. Here's more about the technology: http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html

More details to come as we figure it all out!

Date:

Tuesday, November 6, 2012 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location:

Google Hangout

More Information:

https://plus.google.com/events/c3v2oph4m70p4dmb9890k3ecm0s

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Continuing the Struggle: Students Making History Now with Professor Tim McMillan

These Were Real People – The Civil Rights History Project, a film showing

Witness to Rights: an interactive exhibit of photos by Jim Wallace

Saturday

Still Walking for Justice – A Durham to Chapel Hill Walk to commemorate the 1947 Journey of Reconciliation

The Black Church and the Freedom Struggle with Bishop Thomas L. Hoyt Jr., Senior Bishop of the CME Church

Civil Rights Celebration Dinner featuring the Sacrificial Poets and comments by rising and resilient leaders

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