Democracy & Open Government

Town of Carrboro will begin one-way use of Twitter, hesitantly

Submitted by Damon Seils on May 14, 2011 - 6:04pm

Initiating matters

Submitted by Ruby Sinreich on April 23, 2011 - 10:21pm

As we've mentioned before here on OP, the Town of Chapel Hill is preparing to revise its decade-old Comprehensive Plan (CP). In addition to documenting something of a shared vision of the community, it is also used as the basis of the Town's LUMO (Land Use Management Ordinance) which contains the actual policies and regulations with which all developers must comply. In an attempt to ramp up the process of creating this community document, the Town Council is trying a new approach: they decided to empanel an "Initiating Committee" (IC) that will lay out the process through which the actual CP wil be created.

GOP wasting $ in OC! Yippee!

Submitted by James Barrett on February 28, 2011 - 5:55pm

According to http://orangencgop.org/, they are creating a permanent home in Daniel Boone Village.  I'm sure Pat McCrory is happy they'll be able to add votes in all counties, but I seriously doubt this'll have an influence on individual races in OC.

Stop FBI Repression - Southern Regional Conference at UNC School of Law, Feb. 19

Submitted by kostajh on February 15, 2011 - 6:49pm

Some of you are familiar with this issue from the Indy: http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/why-is-the-fbi-interested-in-the-anti-war-movement/Content?oid=1786829

Please come to this important conference against FBI and Grand Jury repression at the UNC School of Law. Visit the Committee to Stop FBI Repression website for the complete agenda: http://www.stopfbi.net/conference/north-carolina.

Date: 
Sat, 2011-02-19 09:30 - 17:00
Organized by: 
Triangle Committee to Stop FBI Repression
Location: 
UNC School of Law
160 Ridge Rd Room 5052
Chapel Hill, NC
United States
See map: Google Maps

Southern regional organizing conference of the Committee to Stop FBI Repression. Read the press release here.

The conference will be held Saturday Feb. 19 at the UNC Law School in Chapel Hill, NC, from 10:00AM to 5:00pm. Please register now.

You can make an online donation to support the conference - please put "FBI Conference" in the "designation" section of the donate form.

Directions and parking information are available on the UNC School of Law website.

Registration

  • Conference is free and open to the public, but we are asking for $5-20 sliding scale donation to help cover costs.
  • Lunch is $5, no one will be turned away.
  • Need childcare? Let us know the number of kids and their ages.
  • Need housing? Contact housing coordinator ncstopfbi@gmail.com

Follow this link to register for the conference

Agenda

9:30am - 10:00am Registration and breakfast

10:00am - 10:10am Welcome to the conference, opening remarks from conference organizers

10:10am - 10:30am

Keynote address from subpoenaed activists

Subpoeaned activists Meredith Aby (Twin Cities Anti-War Committee) and Steff Yorek (Freedom Road Socialist Organization) provide an overview of the September 24 FBI raids on antiwar and solidarity activists.

10:30am - 10:45am Call for donations to the legal support fund

11:00am - 12:15pm

Panel: History of FBI and Political Repression Against People's Movements

  • Moderated by Elena Everett from Raleigh FIST.
  • Lewis Pitts; Raleigh NC.
  • Efia Nwangaza, US Human Rights Network; Atlanta GA.
  • Theresa El-Amin, Southern Anti Racism Network; Columbus GA
  • Dianne Mathiowetz, International Action Center, Atlanta GA.

12:15 - 1:15pm Lunch (will be provided, please bring $5 donation if possible)

1:15pm - 2:45pm Panel

Panel: Grand Juries, Material Support of Terrorism, the Legal and Political Context of the September 24 Raids

  • Moderated by Kosta Harlan, Triangle Committee to Stop FBI Repression
  • Peter Gilbert, UNC Center for Civil Rights; Durham NC.
  • Lela Ali of In the Name of Humanity; Rocky Mount NC.
  • Khalilah Sabra, MAS Freedom; Raleigh NC.
  • Maureen Murphy, Palestine Solidarity Group; Chicago IL.
  • Meredith Aby, Twin Cities Anti-War Committee; Minneapolis MN.
  • Jennifer Rudinger, ACLU; Durham NC.

2:45pm - 3:00pm Break

3:00pm - 3:45pm

Discussion: Organizing reports from around the South

Opportunity for activists to discuss the protests that they have held, outreach to legislators, building community support.

3:45pm - 4:30pm Discussion of a plan from the Committee to Stop FBI Repression for future actions and protests

4:30pm - 5:00pm Summing up the conference, led by Steff Yorek

Sponsors of this conference include

  1. ACLU of North Carolina
  2. Asheville Committee to Stop FBI Repression
  3. Atlanta International Action Center
  4. Balance & Accuracy in Journalism (BAJ)
  5. Blackwater Watch
  6. Durham Bill of Rights Defense Committee
  7. Durham County Libertarian Party
  8. Freedom Road Socialist Organization
  9. Freedom Road Socialist Organization/Organización Socialista del Camino para la Libertad (FRSO/OSCL)
  10. Green Party of the United States
  11. In the Name of Humanity
  12. Internationalist Books
  13. Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD-USA)
  14. Jews for a Just Peace
  15. Libertarian Party of North Carolina
  16. Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation
  17. National Lawyers Guild at UNC Chapel Hill
  18. NAACP--Chapel Hill/Carrboro Branch
  19. NC Stop Torture Now
  20. North Carolina Peace Action
  21. Orange County Bill of Rights Defense Committee
  22. Orange County Peace Coalition
  23. Orange Chatham Progressive Democrats
  24. Peace and Justice Committee, Community Church of Chapel Hill UU
  25. Raleigh F.I.S.T.
  26. Raleigh Fruitcakes
  27. SDS - Asheville
  28. SDS - Tuscaloosa
  29. SDS - UNC Chapel Hill
  30. Southern Anti-Racism Network
  31. Triangle Committee to Stop FBI Repression
  32. UE Local 150
  33. US Human Rights Network
  34. Veterans for Peace, Eisenhower Chapter
  35. Women's International League for Peace and Freedom --Triangle Branch

 

Date: 

Saturday, February 19, 2011 - 4:30am to 12:00pm

Location: 

UNC School of Law 160, Ridge Rd Room 5052 Chapel Hill, NC

More Information: 

http://www.stopfbi.net/conference/north-carolina

International Citizens' Day of Action to Move Money from the BIG Bank$.

Submitted by sammy slade on November 26, 2010 - 2:27pm

We are hearing a lot about austerity everywhere nowadays, at every scale, county to international.  What we are not hearing: austerity for the Banks!, austerity for the big electricity utilities!, austerity for vampire multinational corporations! .. who have been making a killing this year while so many have lost their jobs, austerity for the rich! .. who may continue to not pay taxes (possibly enabled by Obama's spinelessness and our lack of accountability for him), austerity to the pentagon!  

Well, here is another attempt --an event-- to begin to change this ...

I would like to encourage all who still have their money with banks that are 'too big too fail,' banks that are 'too big to be subject to austerity' --designations not afforded to real people, who are the ones who end up picking up the tab for the banks and get fleeced in the process--, or with banks that finance criminal environmental practices such as tar sands oil extraction (RBC), to:

Please consider joining the international day of action on December 7th to withdraw your money and put it into a credit union or small independent locally owned bank instead.

Locally we now have, the Latino Credit Union and Harrington bank, and if you have a connection to someone who has an account with the State Employees Credit Union, this works too.

Happy Thanksgiving!

 P.S. Related articles of interest:

P.S.S. Should we have a local party of independence to celebrate those who make the change on December 7th?

 

Date: 

Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - 3:00am

Location: 

@ all 'too big to fail' banks

More Information: 

http://www.stopbank.blogspot.com/

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