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The People’s 14 Point Agenda
Three years ago this week, on the 98th Anniversary of the NAACP, a diverse and extraordinary collection of thousands of North Carolinians traveled from across the state to Raleigh for a People's Assembly. The Assembly took place on Jones Street, in front of the State Legislative Building, where our elected representatives craft state laws and choose how to spend our tax dollars.
The new movement that was launched that day (“HK on J” for “Historic Thousands on Jones Street”) was and is the first modern coalition of its kind – a movement organized by the state's 100 NAACP Branches and featuring for the first time since the 1960's, a broad Black, White and Brown progressive agenda supported by over 88 state and local organizations, with more than one-million members.
Since that initial success, the HK on J People's Assembly now gathers each February on the Saturday nearest the NAACP's anniversary and Abraham Lincoln's birthday to witness the miracle of God's diverse human race, to feel the warmth and strength of thousands of our friends and allies gathered together in a common purpose, and to push forward the People's Agenda for poor and working people across the State.
This year’s event on February 13, 2010 will be especially uplifting. Not only will we celebrate important legislative victories from 2009 and discuss plans to bring home more progressive change on Jones Street this coming spring and summer, but we will also launch new efforts to build several local People's Assemblies in the home counties of our legislators to make sure they hear our voices.
But make no mistake; our work will not be easy. Not only do we face the challenges posed by hard economic times, we also confront determined opponents – embittered and often unwitting people who are being organized to try to turn back the great historical strides we have made toward justice, equality, and opportunity for all. In Wake, New Hanover, Wayne, and Halifax counties and across the state, these forces skillfully pander to fear and prejudice in an opportunistic and often cynical effort to turn back the clock toward an era of racial, ethnic and economic segregation.
As we gather this year in Raleigh to reaffirm our common commitment to continued progress, we must also deliver a simple message once and for all to these forces that would halt our state’s shared progress: “We'll Never Turn Back.”
The 14 Points
1. All Children Need High Quality, Well-Funded, Diverse Schools. NC must meet its Constitution's requirement of adequate and diverse schools by fully funding Leandro with transparent accountability and creating special leadership teams in its failing schools.
2. Livable Wages and Support for Low Income People. NC must provide livable wages, make sure no person goes hungry and ensure that everyone in need has affordable, accessible childcare.
3. Health Care for All. NC must provide its people with health insurance and prescription drugs, while funding public health programs to treat social diseases that plague Black and poor communities including HIV/AIDS, diseases caused by environmental pollution and warming, drugs, domestic violence, mental illness, diabetes, and obesity.
4. Redress Two Ugly Chapters in N. C.'s Racist History: The overthrow of the bi-racial 1898 Wilmington Government and the sterilization of poor, mainly Black, women from 1947-1977. NC must implement its 1898 Wilmington Riot Commission recommendations and pay damages to the people it forcibly sterilized.
5. Expand and Improve Same Day Registration and Public Financing of Elections
6. Lift Every HBCU. NC must financially support our Historically Black Colleges and Universities to develop equitable infrastructure and programs with doctoral-level leadership for today's challenges.
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7. Document and Redress 200 years of State Discrimination in Hiring and Contracting. NC must commission historical documentation of its contracting practices with racial minorities to justify constitutional redress.
8. Provide Affordable Housing and Stop Consumer Abuse. NC must adequately fund the state Housing Trust Fund for low-income renters, provide vouchers for veterans who cannot find decent housing, expand tax breaks that keep seniors in their homes, and strengthen protections against predatory lending and foreclosures.
9. Abolish Racially-Biased Death Penalty and Mandatory Sentencing Laws; Reform our Prisons.
10. Promote Environmental Justice. NC must fight all forms of environmental injustice, promote green jobs, and establish an Environmental Job Corps that will employ young people who did not graduate high school and re-engage them in public service.
11. Collective Bargaining for Public Employees and Worker Safety. NC must repeal the state law that prohibits public employee collective bargaining and toughen laws that regulate workplace safety.
12. Protect the Rights of Immigrants from Latin America and other Nations. NC must provide immigrants with health care, education, workers rights and protection from discrimination.
13. Organize, Strengthen and Provide Funding For Our Civil Rights Enforcement Agencies and Statutes Now.
14. Bring Our Troops Home from Iraq Now. NC cannot address injustice at home while we wage an unjust war abroad.
