To the detriment of North Carolina’s public and environmental health, the population of hogs in North Carolina has surpassed people in the past 20 years. Yet, we utilize one of the least advanced models of industrial pork production in the country. The 40 million gallons of waste produced daily by North Carolina’s hogs seeps into the groundwater through unlined manure lagoons that can be 6 acres in size and is sprayed in massive quantities onto nearby fields—within 75 feet of schools and homes.
A Community Conversation:
Putting a Human Face on Immigration
Saturday, August 21, noon - 3:00pm
Carol Woods Retirement Community's Assembly Hall
750 Weaver Dairy Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Sponsored by: Progressive Democrats of Orange and Chatham Counties
Triangle Women's International League of Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
Led by trained facilitators from Uniting NC
We seek to transcend politics and create common ground by sharing our personal
experiences, articulating our hopes, voicing our concerns, and building trust in a
HIROSHIMA:
A
LOST
MEMORY
an essay by Delmas Parker
Friends,
As I write this on the evening of August 6th, my thoughts are fixed on the events of
August 6th and 9th,1945, when for the first time in recorded history, nuclear bombs
were used and destroyed the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. We know more
people died in the fire-bombing of Tokyo than died in Hiroshima-but the the ruins
At least 700 other Democrats from 73 counties across NC gathered in the Holiday Inn Bordeaux ballroom, where they approved their party’s platform, passed 62 resolutions, and heard from Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx.
Foxx discussed plans for the party’s Coordinated Campaign and commented on the prospects for landing the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte in 2012.
Bev Perdue thinks we should let Alcoa's lease expire and take back the rights to the power generated by the Yadkin River:
The plight of the workers at Case Farms in Morganton serves as another example of North Carolina's long history of anti-unionism and worker exploitation.
The hardships that the meat packing plant employees have been forced to endure should have caught the attention of the state's lawmakers long ago, and in any other state they would have.
