Bright Lights of Charlotte's DNC Cast Shadow Over City's Poor and Marginalized
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman. Well, we are in Charlotte, North Carolina, broadcasting live. This is "Breaking With Convention: War, Peace and the Presidency,"...
View ArticleThe Wilmington 10: North Carolina Urged to Pardon Civil Rights Activists...
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: We turn now to the case of the Wilmington Ten. As the new year approaches, civil rights activists are making a last-ditch push for North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue to pardon a group of...
View ArticleMunicipal Broadband Networks Bridge the Digital Divide as Telecom Industry...
AMY GOODMAN: We don’t usually broadcast live from movie theaters, but that’s what we’re doing right here in Silver Spring at the AFI Silver, which is a well-known movie theater here. But today and...
View ArticleMoral Mondays: 700 Arrested in North Carolina Civil Disobedience Campaign...
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: We continue now to look at North Carolina. For weeks, thousands of people have been gathering at the North Carolina Legislative Building for the weekly Moral Monday protest to protest...
View ArticleState of Conflict: Bill Moyers on North Carolina's Right-Wing Takeover & the...
AMY GOODMAN: In 2013, over a thousand people were arrested in North Carolina taking part in a series of protests called Moral Mondays. For 13 weeks protesters rallied in the state capital of Raleigh to...
View ArticleN.C. Governor No Longer Works for Duke Energy, But After Coal Spill, Is He...
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: We turn now to North Carolina, the site of one of the worst coal ash spills in U.S. history. Earlier this month, up to 27 million gallons of contaminated water and 82,000 tons of coal...
View ArticleWill Dark Money Reshape North Carolina Political Landscape from Senate Race...
NERMEEN SHAIKH: In one of the first closely watched primaries of the 2014 election season, the speaker of the North Carolina House, Thom Tillis, has won the Republican U.S. Senate nomination. He will...
View ArticleTens of Thousands Join North Carolina Moral March to Protest GOP Takeover,...
NERMEEN SHAIKH: We turn now to North Carolina, where thousands gathered Saturday in the capital of Raleigh for what organizers are calling, quote, "the largest civil rights rally in the South since the...
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