Two events coming up

1. NC Voters for Clean Elections (www.ncvce.org) is hosting a press
conference on public financing in the Council of State elections this
year, which apparently is popular with most of the candidates,
Wednesday at 11am (they ask participants to gather at 10:30) on the
south side of the Capitol Square, 1 East Edenton Street, in downtown
Raleigh.

While I am speaking of the election, I found out that former Alaska
senator and presidential candidate Mike Gravel has changed his
affiliation to Libertarian and is seeking their nomination. I assume
his name will still appear on the Democratic ballot May 6th, otherwise
it will just be Clinton or Obama, or not much of a choice when you
look at substance.

2. Several labor organizations are hosting a presentation at NCCU
Thursday evening.

40th Anniversary of Martin Luther King's Stand with the Memphis
Sanitation Workers

A Teach-in on Collective Bargaining at
North Carolina Central University

Thursday April 3rd
7-9pm
NCCU Student Union Building [off of Fayetteville St. at the south end of campus]

Speakers include members of Durham City Workers chapter of
UE 150, Teamsters Local 391, State Employees Association of North Carolina,
and North Carolina Association of Educators.

A brief video on Martin Luther King Jr. will be shown.
Food and refreshments will be served.

Members of the Durham state legislative delegation, Durham City Council and
Durham County Commissioners are our invited guests.

Sponsored by

the North Carolina Hear Our Public Employees (HOPE) Coalition,
Institute for Civic Engagement and Social Change (ICESC/NCCU), NCCU
Civic Engagement Task Force, UE 150 Chapters at City of Durham and
NCCU, and Traction

Contact Ashaki Binta (919) 593-7558 abinta at nc dot rr dot com
and Jarvis Hall (919) 530-7256 jhall at nccu dot edu

Sign our Open Letter to NC Legislators!

www.nchope.org

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Hear Our Public Employees Coalition
P.O. Box 12133, Raleigh, North Carolina 27605 919.491.6936

There are lots of other events coming up (too bad there isn't a
comprehensive calendar posted on the Internet or in a paper, at least
none that I have heard of, though there are emailed calendars).

The TSF presentation on Afghanistan will be April 17th at 7pm at the
Chapel Hill Public Library - hear about how one of Obama's top
advisors advised Carter on Afghanistan, with the result that
Afghanistan, the USSR, World Trade Center, Iraq, and parts of our
Constitution were destroyed)