LOD: Petition the Government

Here are an NBC-17 video report and the Associated Press news article about the rally today by Democracy North Carolina, other organizations and grassroots leaders protesting the “Out of Control” General Assembly. After the rally, people moved inside the legislative building and presented a petition against voter suppression to the legislative leadership. The petition included more than 4,000 names gathered in 10 days against the government-photo ID bill and other legislation that would make voting harder. Additional concerns raised at the rally included the gutting of workplace and grievance protections for university employees, the shift in financing public education from taxes on corporations to higher fees on students, and the many dangers of proposals to legalize hydraulic fracking in North Carolina.