Racial & Economic Justice
YES WE CANS Food drive sponsored by Orange County Campaign for Change-OC3
OC3 is continuing community service through regular food drives to benefit our local InterFaith Council and Orange Congregations in Mission.I encourage you to visit their websites to learn the many ways they address hunger, homelessness and the crisis that confronts the working poor.The recent economic condition has added to their rolls in staggering numbers.Since January we have collected 5,500 lbs for non-perishables for our local food banks. Be part of the solution in Orange County.
Please consider conducting a food drive in your neighborhood, place of business, book club or civic group.
Yes We Cans volunteers will be at the Carrboro Farmer's Market on March 21st, 9 am-12 pm to collect your non-perishable donations.
Date:
Saturday, March 21, 2009 - 5:00am to 8:00am
Location:
Carrboro Farmer's Market-free speech zone
There were two articles in the CHH today on the services and improvements that the historic Rogers Road neighborhood has long been lacking.
http://www.heraldsun.com/orange/
For the Historic Rogers Road neighborhood it appears that the neighborhood's role as the garbage receptacle for Orange County may be coming to an end. However vigilance is still required because it ain't quite over yet.
The long sought after services and neighborhood improvements are not anywhere in sight. Over the decades there has been no lack of talk, task forces, official pronouncements of support, planning committees, lists etc... Almost nothing concrete has ever come of all this.
The neighborhood is split into multiple jurisdictions complicating any chance of real progress and offering ready made excuses to all the jurisdictions for failure to act. As with most other things it also boils down to money and with the current economic environment it gets even more difficult.
From an OP comment:
The next county-wide general meeting of
the OCOC will be March 9th. The meeting will start at 6:30 pm with
meetings of the 6 interest groups (living wage, affordable housing,
immigrant families, healthcare, education, and the environment) and at
8:00 pm there will be a general meeting when the interest groups report
back and other business is discussed. We will end promptly at 9 pm.
Molly De Marco
Date:
Monday, March 9, 2009 - 2:30pm
Location:
Binkley Baptist Church, 1712 Willow Drive, Chapel Hill
![[1947 freedom riders]](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2399/2109425578_ca8246e7a6_m.jpg)
Did
you know that the first civil rights "freedom ride" took place in 1947,
fourteen years before the 1961 riders captured the nation's attention
by exposing the brutality of Jim Crow in the South? The Journey of Reconciliation
was organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), which was born
at the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), and was led by FOR staff members Bayard Rustin and George
Houser.
The interracial group of nine men on the Journey of Reconciliation
set out from Washington, D.C. on April 9th, 1947. They met some
resistance from passengers and drivers on buses in Virginia and North
Carolina. But when they attempted to sit at the front of a bus in
Chapel Hill on April 12th, the driver refused, and removed some of the
riders by force. They were then attacked by angry cab drivers at the
Chapel Hill bus station, and arrested by local police. Their subsequent
time serving on a chain gang led Rustin to write about the experience.
His serialized journal led to major reforms in the North Carolina
prison system.
President Obama believes that we, as Americans,
have a responsibility to help our communities and fellow citizens
PLEASE JOIN
the Orange County Campaign for Change
in supporting the
YES WE CANS FOOD DRIVE
to benefit the
Interfaith Council (IFC)
&
Orange Congregations in Mission (OCIM)
Help collect food in your neighborhood, at your work place, among friends
BRING ALL DONATIONS TO EITHER LOCATION (non perishable items only):
The Carrboro Farmers Market
(in the Free Speech Zone)
Cup-A-Joe 120 W. King St.
Hillsborough
Both from 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, on February 28th
(see www.mybarackobama.com for details)
Date:
Saturday, February 28, 2009 - 4:00am to 7:00am
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