Moral Mondays

Tennessee Labor Activists Bring ‘Moral Monday’ To May Day

May 3, 2014 Amien Essif, www.inthesetimes.com Organize! Labor, Moral Mondays, Worker Rights and Jobs

In Tennessee, labor organizers tend to brace themselves for the worst when they see their state’s name in a national headline. And so far, the news this year has been particularly grim. The aftershocks from the United Auto Workers’ historic defeat in Chattanooga are still being covered by major media outlets; just last month, the Department of Labor Statistics revealed that Tennessee leads the nation in minimum-wage jobs. As long as the GOP is at the helm, with Republicans in the state legislature quashing a $1 raise to the minimum wage for companies that don't provide health insurance and blocking federal funding to expand Tennessee’s Medicaid program, progressives in the region will probably continue to feel disheartened. A number of pro-labor groups, however, are pooling their resources in order to make the voice of the Left louder in state politics. “It would be nice for people to have some sense that there are sane people in Tennessee,” says Thomas Walker, who organizes with the United Campus Workers (UCW), a higher-education union affiliated with the Communications Workers of America and headquartered in Knoxville.

How To Organize A Moral Monday

February 17, 2014 Staff, www.naacpnc.org Strategize! Moral Mondays, Organizing

Is Your Community Ready for Moral Monday? Yes, if there is a core group of people in your community committed to social justice, willing and ready to work and plan a Moral Monday Rally and committed to continuing to work together after the Moral Monday Rally is over. Build a Coalition: Bring together a diverse social justice coalition - faith, civil rights, labor - committed to planning and implementing Moral Monday and also committed to be involved in the coalition after the rally. Be sure your local NAACP Branch is included. Reach into all parts of the community to ensure inclusion and diversity by gender, race/ethnicity, religious denominations, and age. They will be needed to do voter registration, build a local HKonJ People’s Assembly, mobilize for the HKonJ Mass People’s Assembly in February, and to sustain this movement for the long term. Almost 1,000 people across North Carolina have done civil disobedience; make sure those in your community are invited to be part of the coalition. WOW there is a lot to be done! Lots of people will be needed.

Moral Mondays Inspire Truthful Tuesdays

February 5, 2014 Matthew Charles Cardinale www.ipsnews.net Resist! Moral Mondays

Protesters attempt to deliver a letter to Gov. Nathan Deal on Jan. 28 that explains the consequences of not expanding Medicaid, a social healthcare programme for low-income people, in the state of Georgia. Credit: Courtesy of Gloria Tatum, Atlanta Progressive News Moral Monday was first formed in North Carolina in April 2013. More than 800 people have been arrested in Moral Monday protests that have involved entering the State Capitol. Weekly attendance in North Carolina has been estimated at around 2,500 people. North Carolina’s Moral Mondays have focused on opposing Republican redistricting and other voting changes, cuts to public education and social programmes, proposed changes that would increase the sales tax, challenges to abortion rights, and other issues.

Is Moral Mondays Providing Cover To Democrats?

January 18, 2014 Bruce Dixon, www.blackagendareport.com Educate! Moral Mondays

To hear the flock of Democrat media and civil rights spokespeople tell it, it's sweeping the country, or at least the South. “Moral Monday” may be coming to a state capital near you. It's this, it's that, it's hot, it's holding Republicans governors and state legislators accountable for the gamut of their heinous policies against the poor and people of color. It is, they say, the beginning of a new movement or the revival of an old one. If only this were true. The problem of course, is not that Moral Monday's core demands – expanding Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act, raising the minimum wage, and doing something about hunger, are bad things. The problem is that Democrats enabled and helped Republicans to enact the immoral policies which Moral Monday spokespeople inveigh against in the first place. White House and Congressional Democrats did these things to please their campaign contributors, mostly the same wealthy donors who give to the Republicans.

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