Moral Mondays: 700 Arrested

in North Carolina

Civil Disobedience Campaign

Against GOP Lawmakers

For weeks, thousands of people have been gathering at the North Carolina State Legislative Building for the weekly “Moral Monday” protest called by the NAACP to protest the agenda of the Republican-led state Legislature. Over the past 10 Mondays, 700 people have been arrested, including the Rev. William Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP. “If you want to change the nation, you have to change the South,” Barber says. “If you want to change the South, you have to change the state capitals, and we believe that this extreme ideological group understands that their narrow minded agenda doesn’t have much longer in the public arena.”