Racial & Economic Justice
Chapel Hill-Carrboro Branch of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People will sponsor its annual Martin L. King,
Jr. Day Rally, March and Worship Service at 9 a.m. Everyone is welcome
to join them for a peaceful rally, followed with a march down Franklin
Street starting at the Post Office at 179 E. Franklin St. that starts
at 10:15 a.m. The march will end at First Baptist Church, where the
worship service will start at 10:30 am.
Date:
Monday, January 18, 2010 - 4:00am
Location:
Post Office at 179 E. Franklin St., Chapel Hill
The 25th Annual University/Community Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial
Banquet will be at 6 p.m. at the Friday Center, 100 Friday Center
Drive. This year's keynote speaker will be Rev. Mitchell Simpson of
University Baptist Church. For ticket information and availability,
call (919) 962-6962 or go to www.unc.edu/diversity/mlk/.
Date:
Sunday, January 17, 2010 - 1:00pm
Location:
Friday Center, 100 Friday Center Dr., Chapel Hill
Date:
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - 12:00pm
Location:
Chapel Hill Town Hall, 405 Martin Luther King Blvd, Chapel Hill
The Rogers Road Community has received a letter from the EPA accepting the neighborhoods environmental justice complaint against Orange County and will start an official investigation. It has been 2 years since the complaint was filed.
The Commissioners should take note of this on December 7th. There is much evidence to back up this claim.
The day before Thanksgiving, El Centro Latino shut its operations down. For the past five years or so my office suite at People of Faith Against the Death Penalty has been located right next to El Centro Latino’s offices in downtown Carrboro. Every day year after year my colleagues and I saw scores of people enter El Centro for help and receive it. Every day we saw and heard happy children run and play and get tutored around the officesof El Centro. We saw adults taking classes. Every day El Centro’s clients overflowed into the hallways of the building. Every day we saw dedicated and caring staff members of El Centro try meet the needs of so many.
I often wondered how they managed. It was clearly exhausting and unrelenting work.
But even though I was so close and saw the amazing work theywere doing I think I took El Centro Latino for granted. I think our community probably has too. Had I not seen it all I would not have known the great work being done there.
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