Racial & Economic Justice (275)
Event
Submitted by admin on Wed, 08/18/2010 - 3:31pm.
11/04/2010 - 9:00am - 11/04/2010 - 3:30pm Location: Hargraves Community Center 216 N. Roberson Street, Chapel Hill Project Homeless Connect Orange County (PHC) is a one-day, one-stop center to link people experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, homelessness with a broad range of services. Guests are offered assistance with housing, employment, health and dental care, foot care, mental health care, veterans’ benefits, social service benefits, legal services, and more. They also receive lunch and are offered haircuts, showers, and coats.
Blog entry
Submitted by lkcarswell on Tue, 07/20/2010 - 4:31pm.
I know the purpose of this site is Orange County politics, but I want to know if others are bothered by the situation in Wake County schools. I went to the rally today and heard Rev. Barber and the other speakers make their case against the new direction of the Wake schools ("neighborhood schools" or resegregation depending on your point of view). It was a well organized and fairly well attended (~ 1000 people) event. We left before things got REALLY exciting and Rev. Barber and others were arrested at the Wake County school board meeting a few hours later, presumably for trespassing since they had been barred from attending.
Event
Submitted by admin on Sat, 05/22/2010 - 5:12pm.
Location: Hanes Theatre, Chapel Hill High School, 1709 High School Rd., Chapel Hill Via Facebook: Adelante Education Coalition, Blue Ribbon Mentor-Advocate, and Chapel Hill High School's Latino Student Association to screen "Papers" documentary in Chapel Hill Film highlights the stories of undocumented youth; Community discussion on immigration issues to follow CHAPEL HILL - Every year, 65,000 undocumented students in the United States graduate from high school without legal status - without"papers." Many of these students know the U.S. as their home, yet without proof of residence cannot drive, work, or apply for state ID,and could be deported to a country they do not remember.
Blog entry
Submitted by Terri Buckner on Sat, 05/15/2010 - 10:30am.
According to this morning's Herald-Sun, the Orange County "Board of Commissioners is one of the first government bodies in the nation to seek to define social justice and make it a backdrop for its decisions." The Human Relations Advisory Board presented a draft of their document to the BoCC on May 13. The full document is available at: http://www.co.orange.nc.us/OCCLERKS/1005131.pdf For those who don't have time to read the full document, here's the bare bones. In working to seek social justice, Orange County shall perform government duties including policy-making and budgeting with the express objectives of: 1. Striving for the elimination of oppression and inequity by creating an environment of equal opportunity in which no groups are targeted for harassment, exclusion, intimidation or violence.
Event
Submitted by admin on Wed, 04/21/2010 - 1:46am.
05/01/2010 - 10:00am - 05/01/2010 - 12:30pm Location: Binkley Baptist Church, 712 Willow Drive, Chapel Hill Come to Stand Against Racism, in the Fellowship Hall at Binkley Baptist Church, located at 1712 Willow Drive in Chapel Hill, NC.
Hours are 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
We'll have refreshments and time for visiting from 9:30 to 10 a.m.;
Program events from 10 a.m. to 12 noon;
More time to mingle and enjoy refreshments until 12:30 p.m.
Program includes performances by Mrs. Mary D. Williams, extraordinary singer of traditional gospel and freedom songs, historian and educator; Poet and performance artist Mr. C.J. Suitt, founder of the Sacrificial Poets; and the St. Ambrose Jazz Mass Quintet from St. Ambrose Episcopal Church in Raleigh, NC. Come listen, learn, visit, and leave with inspiration and ideas on how to Stand Against Racism in your everyday life.
Blog entry
Submitted by George C on Fri, 04/16/2010 - 2:14pm.
I'm a big supporter of the IFC and its mission. And I support its desire to create a new type of facility, a transitional facility for homeless men and the need to relocate somewhere. And I'm disappointed that there is opposition to the proposed site for that new facility. But I also think that the dialogue has gone beyond civility and that the neighborhoods adjoining the proposed site are being unfairly demonized. In the 12 years I have served on Town advisory boards I have seen many neighborhoods oppose many projects for many different reasons - some good, some bad, some rational, some irrational.
Binary poll
Submitted by Ruby Sinreich on Fri, 04/09/2010 - 4:43pm.
It's being discussed to death this week and we have a lot of background on it here, what do you think of the proposed relocation of the shelter to the corner of Homestead Road and Martin Luther King Blvd?
Blog entry
Submitted by Ashley Lopez on Fri, 04/02/2010 - 10:57am.
Last night, the Chapel Hill/Carrboro chapter of the NAACP held a candidate’s forum for the County Commissioner at-large and County Sheriff’s race. The candidates present were: Clarence Birkhead, Lindy Pendergrass, Joal Hall Broun, Barry Jacobs and Joe Phelps. Alice Gordon also stopped by, even though she is uncontested in her County Commissioner race in District 1. There was actually a lot of ground covered at the forum. Among the topics discussed was the 287g Program, overcrowding in county jails, funding for the Chapel Hill library and Google Fiber Optics.
Most notable was William Thorp, the NAACP chapter chair, giving an impassioned plea to the commissioner-hopefuls to fix the situation in Rogers Road. The plea came in the wake of a new report that found 9 out of 11 wells in the region were contaminated and a quarter of the septic tanks in the area were in disrepair.
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