MEDIA ADVISORY
Immediate Release
6 June 2011
Contact: Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, President, 919-394-8137
Mrs. Amina J. Turner, Executive Director, 919-682-4700
Atty. Jennifer Marsh, Legal Redress Coordinator, 919-682-4700
Atty. Al McSurely, Communications Chair, lawyers@mcsurely.com
NAACP/HKonJ To Hold News Conferences and Meetings with Community Leaders in Three House of Representatives’ Districts in Eastern North Carolina to Discuss the State of Emergency and Moral Crisis Produced by the NC Legislature’s Budget Passed Last Week.
The NC NAACP and Historic Thousands on Jones Street (HKonJ) People’s Coalition will launch its "North Carolina: State in Emergency Action Tour" on Tuesday, June 7, beginning with three communities in Eastern North Carolina: Elizabeth City (Pasquotank County), Plymouth (Washington County) and Oxford (Granville County). House Representatives Bill Owens, Timothy Spear and Jim Crawford represent these three areas. Reps. Owens, Spear and Crawford played a key role in making the budget veto-proof, for now. They voted for a budget that was developed by the ultra-conservative, radical Tea Party-backed leadership in the General Assembly and has been identified by multi-racial and multi-faith voices across the state as bad, regressive and harmful for children, minorities, women, the poor and vulnerable communities in North Carolina.
Rev. Barber will be joined by strong grassroots leaders and community members who will detail why we believe the Governor should veto the budget, why these Representatives should follow their conscience and sustain the Governor’s veto and why, if passed, the budget would take all of North Carolina backwards. Speakers will also identify other regressive legislation being pushed by the right-wing, such as repealing the Racial Justice Act, voter suppression bills and direct attacks on immigrant children in our public schools.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
10:00 AM -
Holy Trinity Community Church 607 S Road St. Elizabeth City, NC 27909
Local Contact – Mr. Keith Rivers, Pasquotank County NAACP Branch President (252-267-6868)
12:00 PM
A Plus Results
106 East Water Street
Plymouth, NC 27962
Local Contact – Elder George Puckett, Plymouth NAACP Branch President (252-508-5839)
3:30 PM
Penn Avenue Missionary Baptist Church
225 West McClanahan Street Oxford, NC 27565
Local Contact – Rev. William Darby, Granville County NAACP Branch President (919-693-5396)
