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CAPE FEAR MEMORIAL BRIDGE CLOSURE: UPDATES, RESOURCES, AND CONTEXT

Moral Monday Comes to Wilmington in March to the Polls

Moral Mondays, a series of rallies opposing recent North Carolina legislation, began gathering in Raleigh in 2013.  As the election draws near, the Moral March to the Polls is on the move, visiting Wilmington this week. 

Hundreds gathered at Riverfront Park on Monday, holding signs that called for access to reproductive healthcare for women, equal rights for the LGBTQ community, voting rights, and tax reform. The keynote speaker, Rev. William Barber II, who is the president of the state NAACP, says the agenda of Moral Monday is to mobilize voters to hold elected leaders accountable.  Barber says the movement goes beyond political divides: 

"The Moral Monday Movement is not a left movement.  It’s not a right movement.  It’s not a conservative movement.  It’s not a liberal movement.  It’s a movement asking people to go deeper into our most precious values and to rise higher than the normal political bickery.  And to declare together we will not go backwards but we will go forward."

Barber asked rally participants to help at least 10 other people register to vote before the October 10th deadline.  Barber says that he hopes there will be a Moral March to the polls on the first day of early voting, which is October 23rd