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Amendment One would enshrine discrimination in the North Carolina constitution, but it's even worse than that.

Amendment One would ban civil unions and strip domestic partnership benefits.

1- It'd eliminate health care, prescription drug coverage, and other benefits for public employees and children receiving domestic partnership benefits.

2 - And it would threaten protections for all unmarried couples in North Carolina.


3 - The truth is that most North Carolina voters have no idea how bad this amendment is, but polling repeatedly shows that when they learn the truth, they vote against it.

4 - Amendment One protects no one. Instead, it automatically strips North Carolina many families, including children, of basic health care, threatens parental rights, and throws basic protections like domestic violence laws into what many are calling "legal chaos."

5 -Unmarried women could even lose their domestic violence protections.

For more information: http://www.protectncfamilies.org/home

Sources:


1. "A Surprise for Gay Marriage in the South?" The New Yorker, May 1, 2012
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=275174&id=40671-7650131-QevkMAx&t=3


2. "Amendment One vote imperils benefits for all unmarried couples," The Charlotte Observer, April 30, 2012
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=275175&id=40671-7650131-QevkMAx&t=4


3. Ibid.


4. "PPP: Support For NC Marriage Amendment Slipping," Talking Points Memo, April 24, 2012
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=275176&id=40671-7650131-QevkMAx&t=5


5. "Same-Sex Marriage: North Carolina's Proposed Ban, Amendment One Could Create 'Legal Chaos,'" The Huffington Post, April 9, 2012
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=275177&id=40671-7650131-QevkMAx&t=6


6. "Amendment One: A real danger to domestic violence victims," The Herald-Sun, April 20, 2012
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=275065&id=40671-7650131-QevkMAx&t=7

The megaphones of monoliths
screaming in our ear
Drown out the sounds of danger
we do not want to hear

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The Goose and the Commons

The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from off the goose.

The law demands that we atone
When we take things we do not own
But leaves the lords and ladies fine
Who take things that are yours and mine.

The poor and wretched don’t escape
If they conspire the law to break;
This must be so but they endure
Those who conspire to make the law.

The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
And geese will still a common lack
Till they go and steal it back.

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by Greg Palast and the Palast investigations team at Zuccotti Park Wall Street, Occupy Portland, Occupy Oakland, and Kinshasa, Congo

So big deal. They evicted us. That just means we are among five million Americans evicted from their homes this year. Our photographer, Zach Roberts, had his camera cracked and his head whacked. [See the photo of the nightstick just before it breaks the lens.] Go ahead, kick us and evict us. That won't stop us. Because it's not about the real estate. Wall Street's just an address.

Time to remind The One Percent why we occupy.

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Occupy Wall Street, now almost three weeks old, isn’t like the anti-globalization demonstrations that disrupted summits in the 1990s or even the street actions at the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York, though some of the same characters are probably in attendance. With unemployed young protesters planning to camp out all winter in Zuccotti Park (with bathrooms available only at a nearby McDonald’s), it’s more like a cross between a Hooverville and Woodstock -- the middle-class jobless of the 1930s and the hippie protesters of the 1960s.

With the help of unions and social networking, the movement has at least some chance of re-energizing Democrats in 2012 and pushing back against the phenomenal progress Republicans have made in suppressing voter turnout in several states.

Why? Because --- Read full story in Business Week

 Edenton- Chowan's house meeting on Saturday, July 16, was one of 1600 meetings held across our nation in every Congressional district. Our meeting, held at the home of Alonzo Slade and facilitated by Marilyn Lange, was called to identify 12 major actions which we believe will, if enacted by government, reverse the downward spiral of policies which benefit the abundantly wealthy at the expense of the rest of us.

We began our meeting by sharing our perceptions, experiences, and frustrations which brought us to the meeting – family members struggling to survive, increasing environmental destruction, unfair taxation, deceptive financial practices by banks and other corporations, escalating military costs in lives and dollars, increasing restrictions of personal liberties.

We then set to work.

A Rebuild the Dream house meeting in Edenton will be held on Saturday afternoon, July 16 ,at 2. It will bring together local people who are deeply concerned about the impacts of our current economic and political policies at all levels of government. It will be held at 125 W. Carteret, near the intersection of N. Granville and W. Carteret.