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Greensboro First Southern City To Allow Citizens To Decide City Spending

December 22, 2016 Ken Otterbourg, www.yesmagazine.org ,
By Ken Otterbourg for Yes! Magazine - His frustration could have ended there, but it didn’t. Through a friend, he heard about a process called participatory budgeting, which Greensboro’s city government was using for the first time this year. It allowed city residents, rather than elected representatives, to directly decide how to spend a portion of city funds. The result: The Greensboro Transit Authority is installing software that will allow passengers to track bus movements and better plan their days. “I was really happy,” said Black, who this year is starting a master’s program in information technology at North Carolina A&T State University.

Uprising Activists: Charlotte Mayor, Police Chief Should Resign

September 29, 2016 Ann Doss Helms, www.charlotteobserver.com , , , ,
By Ann Doss Helms for The Charlotte Observer - Local and state activists called Monday for Police Chief Kerr Putney and Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts to resign, as the city’s latest round of tension between police and the black community moves into its second week. At a Monday news conference held by Charlotte Uprising, a coalition that emerged during last week’s protests, speakers said both officials have failed to protect the city’s African American and working class citizens and withheld information about two fatal shootings last week.

Charlotte Is Drowning In Systematic Injustice

September 28, 2016 William J. Barber, II, www.nbcnews.com ,
By William J. Barber, II for NBC News - Just before 4pm, on Tuesday, September 20th, a Charlotte police officer shot and killed Keith Lamont Scott outside Scott's parked car. Eyewitness and police reports do not agree on who the officer was, whether Scott was holding a book or a gun, or what took place between officers and Scott before the shooting. There is much we do not know. But there is unrest in Charlotte because of what we do know.

Here’s What Activists In Charlotte Want From City’s Police Department

September 27, 2016 Julia Craven, www.huffingtonpost.com , ,
By Julia Craven for The Huffington Post - CHARLOTTE, N.C. ― Sixteen North Carolina-based activist organizations dedicated to ending police violence released a list of demands to increase transparency in the death of 43-year-old Keith Scott on Friday. Charlotte Uprising, the designation for the recently founded collective, revealed its demands after Scott was shot and killed by Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers on Tuesday.

Cities Begin Marching In Solidarity With Charlotte

September 26, 2016 Jack Jenkins, www.nationofchange.org , , , ,
By Jack Jenkins for Nation of Change - Charlotte, North Carolina entered a fourth day of peaceful protests Friday night, sparking solidarity demonstrations in other parts of the country as people continue to express outrage over the killing of Keith Lamont Scott, a black man, who was shot dead by police earlier this week. More than 100 demonstrators chanted and waved signs reading “Just Release the Tapes” as they marched through Charlotte’s business district, demanding that local police release videos of the shooting recorded on dashboard and body cameras.

Shattering Charlotte’s Myth Of Racial Harmony

September 24, 2016 David A. Graham, www.theatlantic.com , ,
By David A. Graham for The Atlantic - This is clear in Charlotte, North Carolina, this week, where intense demonstrations and riots have followed the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott by a police officer on Wednesday. The banking mecca—the Southeast’s second-largest city—has tended to see itself as an avatar of modernity and moderation in a state where both are uneven. Although Uptown’s gleaming skyscrapers and chain restaurants seem to suggest a city that is both without, and untethered from, history, the Queen City was built on slavery and its racial politics remain fraught

Footage Shows Fatal Encounter Between Police, Keith Lamont Scott

September 24, 2016 Staff, www.counterpunch.org , , ,
By Staff of NBC NEWS - It's at that moment that four gunshots can be heard, as Scott's wife screams: "Did you shoot him? Did you shoot him?" Wife's Video Shows Deadly Encounter Between Keith Scott and Police 4:41 Unsettling footage obtained by NBC News shows the moments leading up to the fatal police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, North Carolina.

America’s Heart Problem

September 22, 2016 Josh Hoxie, www.inequality.org ,
By Josh Hoxie for Inequality - The United States has a heart problem. We need justice-loving people to come forward and act as moral defibrillators for the nation. We need more people like North Carolina’s Rev. William Barber. Rev. Barber sees the social and political ills plaguing America — everything from moves to cut school funding and make voting more difficult to attacks on LGBT and immigrant rights and drives to slash taxes on the wealthy — as all part of a single national moral problem. His solution: a moral revolution.

N.C. Governor Declares State Of Emergency Amid Violent Protests

September 22, 2016 Greg Lacour and Andy Sullivan, www.huffingtonpost.com , , ,
By Greg Lacour and Andy Sullivan for Reuters - CHARLOTTE, N.C. (Reuters) - Residents of Charlotte, North Carolina, woke up to a state of emergency and the National Guard and State Highway Patrol deployed to their city on Thursday after a second night of unrest sparked by the fatal police shooting of a black man. According to police, Keith Scott, 43, was shot and killed by officers on Tuesday after he refused to drop a handgun. His family and a witness to the shooting said Scott was holding a book, not a firearm.

Keith Lamont Scott: Protests Erupt Over Police Killing

September 21, 2016 Staff, , ,
By Staff of Aljazeera - A US police officer has shot a black man at a housing complex in Charlotte, authorities in North Carolina say, prompting street protests late into the night. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) said on Twitter on Tuesday that demonstrators were destroying marked police vehicles and that approximately 12 officers had been injured. Witnesses contradicted police reports that the man killed was armed, saying that he was unarmed and disabled, according to reports.

Tallying Up The Mounting Economic Toll Of North Carolina’s HB2

September 20, 2016 Alex Kotch, www.facingsouth.org , ,
By Alex Kotch for Facing South - Since becoming law in late March, North Carolina's House Bill 2 has sparked national controversy and an ongoing boycott of the state over its discriminatory provisions. HB2 requires transgender people to use public bathrooms that match the gender on their birth certificate and bars local governments from adopting LGBT protections and minimum wage laws. This week, major college sports leagues became the latest organizations to cancel events in the state because of the law.

Victory! Supreme Court Denies Stay In N. Carolina Voting Rights Case

September 1, 2016 Staff, www.acluofnorthcarolina.org , ,
By Staff of ACLU - WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court today denied North Carolina’s request to stay a federal appeals court ruling that struck down the state’s restrictive voting law. The American Civil Liberties Union and Southern Coalition for Social Justice challenged the law, charging it discriminates against African-American votersand unduly burdens the right to vote, in violation of the U.S Constitution’s 14th Amendment and the Voting Rights Act.

George Zimmerman 2.0 Kills Unarmed Black Man In North Carolina

August 12, 2016 Jonathan Drew, www.news.nationalpost.com , , ,
By Jonathan Drew for The Associatd Press - RALEIGH, N.C. — A young black man shot to death while leaving a house party – allegedly by the host’s white neighbor – was described by his mother Tuesday as loving, funny, and so careful that his family called him “Safety 101.” Kouren-Rodney Bernard Thomas was killed early Sunday when a man living two doors down from the party called police to complain of “hoodlums” in his neighborhood, and then fired a shotgun out of his garage, according to authorities and 911 tapes.

Win For Telecom Giants As Court Puts Dagger In Municipal Broadband

August 12, 2016 Andrea Germanos, www.commondreams.org , ,
By Andrea Germanos for Common Dreams - For his part, Wheeler, who had promoted the policy,said the decision "appears to halt the promise of jobs, investment, and opportunity that community broadband has provided in Tennessee and North Carolina," adding, "The efforts of communities wanting better broadband should not be thwarted by the political power of those who, by protecting their monopoly, have failed to deliver acceptable service at an acceptable price."

Victory: Court Finds North Carolina Voter Suppression Law Illegal

July 30, 2016 Julie Ebenstein, www.aclu.org ,
By Julie Ebenstein for ACLU - A federal appeals court today struck down the entirety of North Carolina’s voter suppression law in a sweeping victory for voting rights. The ruling blocks voter ID and restores preregistration, a week of early voting, same-day registration, and out-of-precinct provisional voting. The ruling is a stinging rebuke of the North Carolina legislature’s attempt to undermine African-American voter participation, which had surged over the last decade.
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