Racial & Economic Justice
I'm a little frustrated because I just learned about this event yesterday, and I think the word needs to get spread farther for this to be effective. But anyway, here's the deal:
The Historic Rogers Road/Eubanks Community
Invites you to meet the folks
behind the headlines
If you’ve been following the news stories
about the Orange County Landfill and the siting of the new Waste
Transfer Station for the past year, you’ve heard a lot about the folks
that live in the historic Rogers Road/Eubanks Community.
Now, come and meet the folks behind the headlines in
this historic and vibrant community. Come spend a Saturday afternoon
and hear their stories, meet their kids and absorb first-hand, the 150
years of history in this community. Come share home-cooked food, listen
to live gospel and steel-drum reggae music and join hands with others
to end environmental racism. Click here for the event flier.
I already have two committments tomorrow afternoon but will try to stop by around 4:30 if at all possible.
Date:
Saturday, May 17, 2008 - 10:00am to 1:00pm
Location:
Faith Tabernacle Oasis of Love International Church, Rogers Road
This weekend I learned there would be a press conference today at 10 am (ie: right now) to reveal the new location of the InterFaith Council's homeless shelter. Of course, this tantalizing e-mail didn't name the location, but based on the particpants I think we have a pretty strong clue.
Chapel Hill Mayor Kevin
Foy and University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill Chancellor James Moeser will
be joined by Chris Moran, executive
director of the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service, Rev. Richard Edens, a
United Church of Chapel Hill pastor, and other community leaders as they
announce a new partnership to benefit the community’s homeless.
So will it be at the UCC? Carolina North? Human Services Building on Homestead? It seems certain to move away from Downtown, which I think is unfortunate
I guess we will all hear shortly.
The sit-in at South Building (offices for the UNC administration) which began last Thursday has now entered its tenth day and second weekend. Seven students are currently locked-in for the weekend, under constant police guard, demanding that Chancellor Moeser join the 42 universities nationwide which have adopted the Designated Suppliers Program. The DSP is an improvement on the anti-sweatshop policies which UNC adopted in 1990 after another sit-in, and would guarantee that factories producing UNC logo apparel paid their workers a living wage, and that workers at those factories had some sort of collective organization.
Students are keeping their own blog about the sit-in at http://dsp4unc.wordpress.com, with daily video updates.
The DSP has been endorsed by 18 campus organizations, both the Chatham and Orange County democratic parties, UNC's Progressive Faculty Network, the North Carolina AFL-CIO, Black Workers for Justice, North Carolina's UE-150, and the Graduate and Professional Student Federation, among other groups.
From the Internationalist announcement list:
LET'S DISCUSS (yell/laugh/cry/protest about) GREENBRIDGE.
A Greenbridge video screening
Sunday, April 13 @3pm
Greenbridge recently produced a documentary on their future vision of
the of Rosemary and Graham street corner.
At first glance, the Greenbridge development embodies progress for
Chapel Hill. The building will utilize some of the newest green
technologies available ie. solar, wind, and geothermal to provide
energy for the building and thereby lessen its carbon footprint. But
in our haste to combat the forces of Global Warming, we may have
overlooked some details, such as marginalizing the surrounding
Northside community.
Come out and join us as we watch the video and enter in open
discussion about what community means to us (taking into account race,
class and ideological differences.)
Date:
Sunday, April 13, 2008 - 11:00am
Location:
Internationalist Books, 405 W Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27516
I know I'm stepping into a hornet's nest with this one, but what is it about this one little word ("merger") that sends parents in both school systems into such a tizzy?
After nearly two hours of grappling with its options, the school board
for the Orange County Schools modified its enrollment plans for the
district's only year-round elementary school Monday night.
In a 4-2
vote, the board approved changes recommended by district administration
that will allow 30 students already at Hillsborough Elementary School
to re-enroll there next year.
Some parents who had feared their
children might be among those not allowed to return had dressed in
orange shirts and spoken at board meetings, posted to a blog devoted to
challenging the changes, and even hired an attorney to challenge the
board.
[...]
Board member Liz Brown voted against modifying the plan because she
felt it didn't do enough to help Central and Efland-Cheeks elementary
schools retain middle-income students.
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