Racial & Economic Justice
HE WAS A POEM: A GATHERING IN THE
TRADITION
Monday Jan. 21 * 7 p.m.
The Stone Center Robert and Sallie Brown
Gallery and Museum
The program will honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. through music and poetry, with performances by:
KIM
ARRINGTON, a Durham-based singer and spoken word artist
RON BAXTER, a local
jazz musician
DONOVAN LIVINGSTON, a UNC junior and spoken word
artist
MICHAEL SIMANGA and LITA HOOPER, Atlanta-based poets and authors
BRADLEY SIMMONS, director of the Duke University Djembe
Ensemble
Refreshments will be served. The program is free and open to the
public.
Limited free parking available; please call the Stone Center at
962-9001 for more information.
Sponsors: The Sonja Haynes Stone
Center for Black Culture and History, and the University
Library
Date:
Monday, January 21, 2008 - 2:00pm
Location:
UNC Sonja Haynes Stone Center - Robert and Sallie Brown Gallery and Museum
Plan now to gather with thousands -- perhaps tens of thousands -- of
North Carolinians in support of a progressive agenda for the state. The
second annual HKonJ -- Historic Thousands on Jones Street in Raleigh --
will be held Saturday, February 9 at Chavis Park,
505 Martin Luther King Blvd., Raleigh beginning at 11:30 a.m., with a
march to the State Legislative Building planned for 12:30 p.m.
See the HKonJ site for more information, agenda, flyer, etc.
(Updated 2/7/08.)
Date:
Saturday, February 9, 2008 - 6:30am to 9:00am
Location:
Chavis Park, 505 Martin Luther King Blvd., Raleigh, NC
The County Commissioners are starting the new search process to site a proposed waste transfer station, just as they received official notice of an environmental justice complaint filed with the EPA in 2007 by the landfill neighbors.
Before getting to the search the board met in closed session to discuss a newly received notification from the Environmental Protection Agency Office of Civil Rights that a formal complaint had been filed.
The complaint alleges racial discrimination on the part of the county, Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Hillsborough, the Orange Water and Sewer Authority and the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
County Attorney Geoff Gledhill said officials will not publicly discuss Eubanks Road until they decide on the board's response.
To avoid similar protests this time, the board will serve as the search committee but will work with Olver Inc., a Charlotte-based consulting firm that specializes in environmental issues and waste facilities.
Event celebrates human
rights and relations, brings attention to pressing issues.
Join the
County Human Relations Commission in celebrating Human Relations Month at a kick-off event from 2:30-5P on Sunday, January 27, at the
Carrboro Century Center
(100 N. Greensboro Street,
Carrboro). The event will include a presentation on healthcare inequities by
local advocates Shannon and Anthony Fleg and a performance by the Chuck Davis
African-American Dance Ensemble. Refreshments will be
served at this family event. For more information, contact James Spivey at the County Human Rights
and Relations Department, (919) 960-3875.
A couple of recent letters to the editor are stretching logic and hyperbole in order to make their points. I think they end up having the opposite effect. In today's Daily Tar Heel for example, senior Chris Garrison complains that "if Benito Mussolini can get public transportation to run on schedule" why can't Chapel Hill? Do we really have to answer that, Chris?
In last week's Independent Weekly, Sharon Cook wrote a letter taking issue with that paper's October 2007 characterization of her as a newcomer to the issue of justice for the African-American neighbors of the landfill. She accused the Indy of shoddy reporting, and explained her history of supporting her Rogers Road neighbors.
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