FACEBOOK: PAPERS PLEASE!

Posted on January 21, 2015 by Liberty Speaks

“It’s free and always will be”…..(IF YOU SHOW ID)

After 5 years of having my Liberty Speaks Facebook account, a funny thing happened on January 13, 2015 when I logged in.  I was greeted with following  notification:

“It looks like the name on your Facebook account may not be your authentic name.  We ask everyone to use the name they go by in real life so friends know who they’re connecting with.  If this is the name you use in your everyday life, we would like to work with you to verify the name that best represents your identity.  

I was locked out, my account was no longer in existence.  Do not pass GO, you are in social media jail.  Ah, but wait…You can get released if you just prove you are Liberty Speaks.

The notification also stated:

We accept a number of documents to allow you to verify your everyday name”

There are three options provided for this process.  The documentation list is staggering. Just to give an idea, I am listing some of those documents below (many of which are protected and not to be used as ID):

  • Option one consists of providing Drivers License, Passports, Federally issued Disability or SNAP cards, vehicle insurance, voter ID card, Green cards, vehicle insurance card or Marriage certificates.  
  • Option two is provide two forms of ID.  One must include a photo or date of birth matching your information.  Some of the examples are bank statement, check, medical record, paycheck stub, social security card, year book photo, utility bill, and mail. 
  • Option three is for those who don’t have an ID with their authentic name as well as a photo or date of birth:  the Government ID. (That option did not go over well)

Facebook goes on to say in their policy that after they resolve the issue, they will permanently delete the ID from their servers.

Imagine the data mining apparatus if it doesn’t delete it.  I will refer everyone to articles from The Atlantic, Forbes, Business Insider and Wired on just a taste of what that behemoth would be like.

So after hours of fuming at this latest imposition by Facebook, I had two choices in front of me.

First choice: Abandon Liberty Speaks as a person and create her as a page.  Though it would have been nice if I was given the opportunity to do that before getting locked out, but I was not.  The image of Mark Zuckerberg dressed as Gandolf yelling “YOU SHALL NOT PASS!” kept popping my head.

Second choice: Come out of the blogger closet with my real name and kiss Liberty Speaks goodbye.   After  a week of long consideration and deliberation I have made my decision. I will take door number 3.

NO I WILL NOT PROVIDE YOU MY IDENTIFICATION

I am not trying to buy Sudafed, vodka, cigarettes, pot, a car or a new home.  You, Facebook, are not a casino, corporate office, airport, government building, border crossing, court room or voting booth.  (Oops, scratch that last one, that’s discrimination, marginalization, and disenfranchisement remember?)

What I have tried to do over the last five years is exactly what Mark Zuckerberg spoke of in an interview with Wired.  His exact words:

“Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They’re keeping up with their friends and family, but they’re also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They’re connecting with the audience that they want to connect to.”

An image and identity is what I had with Liberty Speaks as a person.  I did not create the account to deceive anyone.  I created her to have a voice in the game;  A voice with out the prejudice and fear that we sometimes experience when opining about politics in our every day lives.  I was able to connect with an audience I wanted to connect to.  I did exactly what Mr. Zuckerberg envisioned.  In five years being Liberty Speaks I have been able to meet the most fascinating people and gain some very close friendships including my co-blogger, A. P. Dillon.

I did so by promoting good debate,  discouraging profanity or any hate speech, and unfriending and blocking those who would disparage my 300+ friends.  I had established myself as a fair-minded individual who welcomed anyone to friend me with the simple rule of  “keep it civil.”

I had never been flagged, banned, reported for abuse, been accused of bullying or making threats, or been suspended for any reason regarding my postings, shares, likes or links.  My persona was not made to troll, and not anything like the thousands of pages created to smear groups or individuals that are out there on Facebook.   Why is it those pages don’t seem to get the same scrutiny?  Oh, and by the way, if we are talking fake names, how many people have their real first or last name as OCCUPY?  Just saying.

Now, let’s get down to the crux of this situation.  Three things really should be brought up regarding this invasive policy that Facebook has imposed and I will start with the 800 lb “LIKE” button in the room.

ANONYMITY

There are many who will never believe that writing, speaking or staying anonymous online is valid.  They will say it is ‘cowardice’ and that those who hide behind a mask must be hiding something themselves or are there just to be abusive.  I will not disagree with that argument, but I will offer one of my own.

Yes, anonymous Facebook accounts have been used for bullying, threatening, defamation, terrorist propaganda and predatory behavior.  Those accounts should be dealt with separately and individually.   Facebook should crack down on the accounts that are being abusive, however, not at the expense to those who have a legitimate reason for having a “fake” persona.

My anonymity is not due to cowardice but caution.   I choose my Liberty Speaks persona because my job requires discretion and my husband is a retired law enforcement officer.  I did not wish to open our private lives up to the public at large.  Police officers and their families must take steps to protect their welfare in public as well as online due to threats and retaliation from those who wish to do them harm.  This practice is not unique, and if anything these days it is being highly suggested for both law enforcement and military.

I used my Facebook account to re-post stories I have done on this blog.  Some of those stories could pose a danger to my family and using the name Liberty Speaks was my line of defense regarding this.

To give an example,  I wrote an article last summer on Bowe Bergdahl’s father, Robert, and an individual whom he was connected to on social media.  This individual is a self-professed “Islamic Jihadist”.  After the story was published on this site, Lady Liberty and myself were called out by her in a Fatwa of sorts on her Google+ Account accusing us of being CIA and Mossad.  Though I was strangely flattered by the accusation, that incident alone was enough for me to keep embracing my Liberty Speaks Facebook persona.

There are many advantages to anonymity and using different persona accounts on social media.   One of law enforcement’s most valuable tools in catching on-line predators, would be terrorists, and other suspects is the ‘fake account’.  Much to Facebook’s chagrin, a Federal Judge has ruled it just fine and dandy in the use of ‘luring’ these individuals.

There is also another benefit of the “false persona” being created on Facebook.   A very close friend of mine, recently went through a nasty divorce and custody battle.  After 13 years of dealing with her abusive husband she was awarded sole custody of their five children.  A very strict restraining order was placed on him  that included no contact with her or the children period.  She has no family in the state so she came to me for help.  I designed a Facebook profile for her under a different name so she could establish her online support network without fear of him finding her location, residence, or any other personal information.  She now has the ability to share pictures of her children with their grandparents, and is able to keep up conversations with her family. This is something her ex husband never allowed her to do.

Will Facebook soon ask for her ID to prove who she is?  If so, then this woman who endured years of psychological imprisonment would once again be alone, suppressed and marginalized.

SOCIAL EXCLUSION

This term is not normally associated with social media.  However, with Facebook not allowing for people to create their own identity by way of a false persona this is a form of marginalization that I feel is occurring:

Social exclusion is a multidimensional process of progressive social rupture, detaching groups and individuals from social relations and institutions and preventing them from full participation in the normal, normatively prescribed activities of the society in which they live.

This has already happened due to Facebook’s policy.  While some in the country were explaining why the Washington Redskins Football team should change their name because it disparages Native Americans, in  October 2014, Facebook did some disparaging of their own.

The accounts of various Native Americans were suspended stating their names were fake.  Oh, did I tell you it happened on Columbus Day? A holiday considered an insult to many Native Americans?  This marginalization of a group due to their given names is big news,  the mainstream media has done virtually NO REPORTING on this.  However, they have managed to report on the outrage from the LGBT community over the deletion of hundreds of transgender performers.

Drag queens (individuals who take pride in self-expression) including Sister Roma of Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence – a San Francisco group of drag performers and activists began a not so small rebellion against Facebook .  In CBS interview several of those performers reasons were given as to why the fake names should be acceptable.

Citing the CBS article :

The drag queens and others in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community say many Facebook account holders fear using their real names for a variety of reasons, including threats to their safety and employment.

Abused women, bullied teens, transgender people… (there are) a million different people with a million different reasons to use fake names,” said Sister Roma, a member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.

Though an apology was given to the LGBT community, Facebook has not backed down.  The social media giant suggested to the performers to create a “fan Page” instead of a regular Facebook account, but as one performer in the CBS article stated,  “Your reach is limited“.

Lady Liberty, myself, and our other administrator have personal experience with the Fan page option and it’s reach.   When the notifications format changed, we noticed a huge drop in views on it.  This is something we constantly have to monitor and remind our fans on how to get our updates.

This “real name” policy is a form of Social Exclusion.  It  suppresses creativity, marginalizes groups or individuals, as well as takes away the sense of safety for others.  It cuts off networking and ultimately silences our freedom to express ourselves.

Suppression of freedom of expression is something that our Founding Fathers tried to made sure would not happen to us.  One of those original architects, made use of a fake persona or pen name two hundred and thirty-nine years ago.

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

One of history’s most famous fake names is Silence Do Good.  She was a middle-aged widow who used humor in her letters to get a point across to viewers.  She wrote of love, made fun of colonial life, and addressed the state of Education in Massachusetts among other topics.

She also was Benjamin Franklin.  Franklin was unable to get any of his own writings published in the American Newspaper the New England Courant.  However, Silence Do Good succeeded in doing so.  Franklin went on two use 7 other persona’s in his writing, including Richard Saunders of  “Poor Richards Almanac“.

There are countless false or fake persona’s in our history from Dear Abby to Mark Twain, Ibn Warraq to Dr. Seuss, Charlotte Bronte to George Orwell.   All these very famous and influential people had their individual reasons for anonymity.   However, they had one thing in common —  Their  wish and desire for freedom of expression and to have a voice in the game.  They found the freedom of the press, freedom of speech and freedom from fear in their “not real name“.  I had found it as well.

A Final Note to Facebook

You are not getting my personal identification.  Period.

I question your reasons for this policy.  Seems to me, the money you create through ad targeting will not work if you can not target real people.

Having millions upon millions of legal documents at your disposal is troubling.   If you get down to the bottom line of this policy, it may be your profit that you are more worried about than our “ability to connect with “real life” friends.

Now, I am no Bronte.  I am not a literary giant or columnist, nor a dissident from a country that may kill me for my views.  I am an American citizen who, up until now, was able to voice my opinions among friends I had accepted personally.  Facebook says I am a ‘fake person’, but does that make me less real?  Does it make me less important?

The three reasons I offer on anonymity, social exclusion and freedom of expression are all I can do now.  My Liberty Speaks account is inaccessible as is my friends list.   I have created a new page for her and I say to those who befriended me:

I am Liberty Speaks and I am not going away.

 

Thank you to Doug Ross @ Journal for linking

Thank you to Grumpy Opinions for linking

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Chapel Hill EWA Seminar On Common Core (Pt II)

Posted on January 21, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

Yesterday, I did a short write-up of one of the videos taken at the EWA Seminar in Chapel Hill on January 12th.  Today is party two, “The Southern Context Of Common Core”.

“The Southern Context of Common Core“
20 minutes, 17 seconds
Participants: Jill Stancill and Ferrell Guillory

Description: “Education Writers Association conference panel on the Southern context of Common Core. News & Observer Education Reporter Jane Stancill interviews Ferrel Guillory, member EducationNC Board of Directors and professor of the practice at the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication.”

I’ll be referring to Jane Stancill as JS and Ferrel Guillory as FG throughout this article.

Be mindful of who Guillory is.

 

Overall, my take is that this discussion here is more about driving a narrative about the South and is less about Common Core or even really education. This conversation is more about Stancill and Guillory’s opinions about Republicans and their foothold in the South.

47 second  mark: JS asks FG what about Common Core has generated such heat in the South? Where do you see that movement going?
FG responds by pointing to 2010 and 2012 Republican gains nationally and in the states and continued on to link that all the way back to Reagan’s ‘A nation at risk‘ and Nixon in terms of the ‘Southern Strategy’.

FG then compares Reagan’s ‘education agenda’ to the current school choice movement – vouchers, less government control, abolishment of the DOE.  FG says that the sons and daughters of “Reaganites” are now in power and they are questioning the dynamics that grew out of a ‘A nation at risk‘.

FG: ‘What’s going on in the South is Republicans arguing with Republicans.’

 5:00 mark: JS asks what is it that we should understand about the South … are there shifts in political power that we should think about when covering education in a more broad way?

FG: What is essential to say here is that the South has become the base of the National Republican party. The National Republican party has no way to win the presidency without the South.

Guillory continued on to say that the 2016 primaries will have to “deal with the South”.

8:20 mark: JS talks about the way Republicans are staking themselves out differently, being either for or against Common Core.  JS asks if Common Core is going to be a big part of the debate in 2016.  FG agrees it will be an issue.

10:58 mark: Q & A session begins.

Question: Common Core, in part, came out of the National Governor’s Association. What do you make of so many Governors now turning against it? Is it just political opportunism?
FG: “That was five years ago… there’s been an election since then…”
FG goes on to say states have become polarized. Uses Jindal as an example of shifting his support, implies it is due to Presidential aspirations.

LL1185 Comment: Gee, the massive public outcry in Louisiana had nothing to do with it, eh?

Question: Is some of this (Common Core backlash) because it has been associated with the Obama administration because of Race To The Top?

FG: Yes I think that’s some of it.
FG then makes a remark the Common Core developers were careful to say they wanted this to be national standards, not federal standards. FG characterizes RTTT as the Obama administration “trying to be helpful”.

LL1885 Comment: The overall implication in that question is that you’re a racist for opposing Common Core. If it wasn’t meant to be federal, then why the Race To The Top requirement for ‘Career and College Ready’ when Common Core was the only thing out there? I think Mr. Guillory is over-simplifying the amount of money and collusion between the DOE and the CCSSO, NGA, Achieve and Bill Gates.  This administration wasn’t trying to be helpful, they were trying to be dictatorial with that Race To The Top requirement.

Question at 15:23 mark was interesting.
The person, who isn’t identified, mentions the idea of standards getting on their radar when Achieve talked to the state board of education in Nevada in 2002 or 2003.  The question put to Guillory is whether he thinks lawmakers feel like they’ve been left out of decision making on standards or are they were simply not paying attention and are now trying to catch up.  FG goes into a long explanation about the long, great history of Democratic lawmakers (he names Easley) have done in Education. Then he makes this comment:

“This assault on Common Core…in the South…is also partly an assault – maybe unintended or unspoken – on the emerging… what had emerged as the settled policies… the consensus policies that Southern states needed to reform themselves in education, step by step.”  

Is Guillory saying here that attack on Common Core is an attack on the education establishment or just the established policies of which many are proving outdated?

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Pearson Is Everywhere: Silencing Edition

Posted on January 21, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

PearsonWelcome back to Pearson Is Everywhere!

Last time we looked at Pearson’s involvement with the GED: 2014 GED Results Show 90% Drop In Passage Rate

Today, we’re looking at how Pearson silences opposing viewpoints.

 

A reader sent me this tweet:

This article is a long read, but well worth it.  In a nutshell, Pearson went behind the scenes to dismantle and discredit a critic. From the article, “Pearson’s real counterattack took place largely out of public view.”

Excerpt:

Pearson wasn’t going to let Stroup’s findings go unchallenged. The company’s pushback against Stroup glossed over his most compelling findings and focused instead on what the company perceived as a mislabeled column in one of Stroup’s spreadsheets. In a public statement posted on the Pearson website, Dr. Walter “Denny” Way, senior vice president for measurement services at Pearson, said the 72 percent number was “not supported through valid research and will not stand up to a rigorous review by qualified experts.” After correcting what Pearson interpreted as the mislabeled column, Way wrote, the tests were “only 50 percent” insensitive to instruction. This alone was a startling admission. Even if you accepted Pearson’s argument that Stroup had erred, here was the company selling Texas millions of dollars’ worth of tests admitting that its product couldn’t measure half of what happens in a classroom.

Further down:

Most of what UT’s Pearson Center does seems more promotional than productive. The Pearson Center invites pro-assessment scientists to give lectures at UT. The center’s website has long lists of research presentations it has funded, indicating that the center is less a think-tank for groundbreaking research and more a mouthpiece in the marketplace of ideas.

And this at the end:

Bomer’s cover letter indicates that the subject of Pearson came up with the review committee when Stroup requested a meeting after receiving the original unsatisfactory rating. “At that meeting, Dr. Stroup asked whether any member of the review committee or I had any relationship to Pearson publishing,” Bomer wrote. “None of us has any such relationship.”

Maybe Stroup’s “emperor has no clothes” rebellion against UT’s generous benefactor has nothing to do with his post-tenure review. For its part, Pearson Education said through a spokesperson that the company had no contact with UT about Stroup.

Maybe Stroup and his cloud computing and networked calculators don’t fit neatly into an academic world, so his colleagues think he’s slacking off. Maybe there’s another explanation for why the UT College of Education is seemingly trying to get rid of a tenured professor.

But if Pearson were trying to strike back against a researcher who told legislators that they were paying $100 million a year for tests that mostly measure test-taking ability, it would look an awful lot like what is happening to Walter Stroup.

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Chapel Hill EWA Seminar Topic: Common Core

Posted on January 20, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

North Carolina’s newest ‘Education Non-Profit‘ provided some video of the recent EWA Seminar held in Chapel Hill on January 12th.  EWA stands for Education Writers Association.

EWA has received multiple Gates Foundation grants. The most recent is for over $1.4 million and is centered on ‘communications’.

EWA has an article on their site with the ‘top tweets’ from the Chapel Hill seminar.  One notable tweet has Former NC Governor Perdue remarking that Common Core will be part of the 2016 Presidential debate:

This Tweet gave me pause, since my own child is now in second grade and I have to reprogram him daily in basic addition/subtraction because the Common Core way has him so confused.
Links to the Videos:

  • “Taking Political Stock of the Common Core”
    Description: “Education Writers Association conference panel on political controversy surrounding Common Core. Includes panelists Lt. Gov. Dan Forest, former Governor Beverly Perdue and Florida State Senator John Legg.”
  • “The Southern Context of Common Core”
    Description: “Education Writers Association conference panel on the Southern context of Common Core. News & Observer Education Reporter Jane Stancill interviews Ferrel Guillory, member EducationNC Board of Directors and professor of the practice at the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication.”

I’ve finally gotten around to looking at them and have some notes on them. Today, I’ll look at the first video “Taking Political Stock of the Common Core” (56 minutes, 17 seconds long).

Participants: Former Governor Perdue, Lt. Governor Dan Forest, Florida State Senator John Legg.
Reminder: Former NC Governor Perdue’s DigiLearn Propped Up By Gates Grant and Governor Perdue and June Atkinson put Common Core as a brand name in NC’s Race To The Top Grant application almost 6 months before the standards were released.

6:20: Moderator asks Perdue why NC adopted Common Core and what she makes of the backlash.  Her response is a stream of Common Core talking points – ‘internationally benchmarked’, ‘high standards’, etc.  Perdue around the 9 minute mark then says “political rhetoric” around the Common Core is “a shame”.  She then goes on to say every state should “do what they want” whether is be Common Core or not; let the citizens stand up and decide. The irony in those statements is clearly lost on her.

10:48: Lt. Governor Forest is asked a follow-up question and if this is “political rhetoric”.  The Lt. Governor comments the reason we’re even having this conversation is lack of transparency in the original adoption process.  The Lt. Governor says Common Core opposition/debate is not partisan; parent concerns are not ‘political rhetoric’, you can’t just dismiss parent questions. Mentions the questions his office asked of the Department of Public Instruction and the lack of answers they provided.  His main thrust was the lack of transparency and answers on Common Core from those who created it and are supporting it.

16:26: Moderator asks Florida Legislator Legg about where Common Core is in his state and political tests it has faced.  Legg launches into a rendition of what the definition of “is” is. By going down the path of different meanings of Common Core, Legg inadvertently calls attention to the massive list of its flaws.

22:40: Moderator mentions one panelist was missing – Michael McShane of American Enterprise Institute. Arguably, McShane is a supporter.

23:00: Moderator mentions the math problem that went viral and originated in North Carolina. Moderator credits that video with the build-up of political tension over the issue. The question then turns to pedagogy. Lt. Governor Forest comments that the standards are not “just standards”; they inform tests, materials and more. The Lt. Governor laid out the age/developmentally inappropriateness in the K-5 and the math being a mess in the later grades.

25:56: Moderator to Lt. Governor Forest: Do we need tinkering around the edges or a whole-sale new set of standards?  Lt. Governor Forest mentions the Academic Standards Review Commission, raises questions of mass roll-out all at one time in North Carolina.

25:58: Moderator to Perdue: Do you think mistakes were made in your state with the roll-out? Implementation didn’t go right?  Perdue says the key issue was that the whole roll-out was ill-conceived; very little work with the American press corps about it. Perdue (paraphrased), ‘We were supportive of the concept, but can’t look back and think there was anything wrong with the roll-out in NC’.  Perdue admitted she has a daughter in Raleigh who “hates Common Core” and “she hates it because she can’t do the math”.  Perdue insinuates the problem with Common Core isn’t the standards or the kids, but the parents who see their kids being ‘taught differently’ in order to compete in the 21st century.

29:09: Moderator to Perdue: Are you comfortable with the review panel now going through the standards and possibly revising them? Perdue says she doesn’t have a problem with a review then asks Lt. Governor Forest if they are funded yet. The answer right now is no. Perdue then says the commission doesn’t have ‘adequate resources’ and that’s an issue.

Perdue continues and hints maybe the commission (in her view) doesn’t know what they are doing, “I just think you have to be sure if you’re going to do these reviews that you have somebody who knows something about what they’re doing…”

Perdue said she didn’t think she had what it took to do such a review.

30:20: Q and A Session started
 

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NC NAACP Gives Award To Fast Food Strike Arrestee

Posted on January 20, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

The NC NAACP is giving the Charles A. McLean award those who protested fast food restaurants. The woman who will accept the award, Crystal Price, was arrested at Moral Monday last May for sitting in Speaker Tillis’s office and refusing to leave when the building closed.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 19, 2015
Contact: Tom Wolf, NC NAACP – tom@naacpnc.org or 504-940-4441 

NC NAACP to Honor Fast Food Workers with Charles A. McLean Award 
and Shaw University with Humanitarian of the Year Award 
at 31st Annual Humanitarian Awards Banquet
RALEIGH, NC: The North Carolina NAACP will honor fast food workers with the Charles A. McLean award at its 31st Annual Humanitarian Awards Banquet on January 24, 2015.
“I want you to know, without a shadow of a doubt, that we who believe in America and progress are proud of the way you are fighting to change economic and labor rights in this country,” Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II told a group of fast food workers who organized a strike in Greensboro in December.
Crystal Price, a Greensboro-based fast food worker and leader within Raise Up, will accept the McLean award on behalf of the fast food workers.

The group ordered ate pizza and sang songs. The point of their trip to Tillis’s office was to harp on Medicaid expansion.  There was video taken inside Tillis’s office where Price sobbed for the camera about her situation.

No media outlet has bothered to question how Price doesn’t have insurance when she clearly qualifies for various assistance available to the public.  No media outlet has bothered to ask why a fast food job that pays minimum wage is being portrayed by these union tied protesters a career that should support a family.

This group apparently attempted to brand the event, calling themselves the “Tillis 15″to the media. Only 14 were arrested and Crystal Dawn Price of Greensboro was one of them. Of that 14, multiple individuals had prior records.  As it turns out, so does Crystal Dawn Price.

According to Greensboro area criminal records, Crystal Price was arrested and booked at the Greensboro county jail on July 10, 2013 under the charges of simple assault-affray (fighting in public that disturbs the peace) and battery and failure to appear.  You can find her 2013 mug shot here , another here and her 2014 mug shot here.

 

More on Price
According to publicly available voting records, Price is a Democrat with a short voting history.

It doesn’t appear Price has been on Twitter long. Price has thirty-some-odd followers which include multiple other union fast food protesting front groups, NC NAACP, the AFL-CIO’s “Organizing Institute” and “Organize the South“. Price follows mainly Occupy, Anonymous and fast food union groups.

 

Note the letter references “Southern Workers Organizing Committee”.  That’s just another name for Raise Up for $15.  Perhaps Ms. Price should see how well their “Organizer” position pays as listed at UnionJobs.com.

Price is to the right of Barber in this image as they stand together for “nonviolent militancy“:

Remove all doubt these “protests” are anything other than unions wanting to add to their numbers. Check out the video interview of Price below by the Triad branch of NC Jobs with Justice. Related: Occupy 2.0: Triangle Jobs With Justice

The title of the show is apt:

Video description:
Published on Jul 1, 2014
Rich and OW interview Crystal Price on May 19, 2014. Crystal is a fast food worker at Wendy’s in Greensboro, NC and has gone on strike for a $15 minimum wage and the right to form a union at her workplace.

 

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NC Atty General Busy Texting During MLK Service

Posted on January 19, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

In case you missed it, North Carolina Attorney General, Roy Cooper, was showing his respect for Martin Luther King Day by texting during a service held today.

 

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