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July 30, 2013

Thousands of Teachers Join Final "Moral Monday" Protest in North Carolina 
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Thousands of people flooded Raleigh, North Carolina, for the last Moral
Monday protest following the end of the state legislative session. The
crowd included flocks of teachers from across North Carolina protesting
a state budget approved last week that slashes funding for public
education. More than 920 people were arrested over the course of 13
Moral Monday actions organized by the local NAACP against the Republican
state legislature. Over the past couple months, the North Carolina
legislature has ended unemployment benefits to more than 70,000 people,
rejected the Medicaid expansion under President Obama's healthcare law
and passed new restrictions described as the harshest crackdown to date
on voting rights.

 

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