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3642
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A standoff between black and white Enfield town council commissioners has brought local government to a halt. Charging that whites have not kept promises, like extending sewer lines, black commissioners have been boycotting meetings since June, 1997.
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Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 15 Issue 38, Sept 1997, p11-13, il Periodical Website
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3985
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The Ohio-based labor union, Farm Labor Organizing Committee, seeks to organize a farm worker union in the state. Their target is the Mt., Olive Pickle Company, the largest pickle company in the South. The union seeks collective bargaining, higher wages, and better living conditions for workers. Unless the company agrees to talks by March 17, 1999, the union will begin a regional boycott of Mt. Olive products.
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Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 16 Issue 46, Nov 1998, p13, il Periodical Website
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4526
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The Independent talked to activists throughout the Research Triangle Metropolitan Area and asked them to identify the ten important social justice campaigns needing citizen involvement in 2000. Among those identified were campaign finance reform, support for farmworkers, and a halt to the death penalty. O'Neill gives a brief description of each campaign and lists contact persons and phone numbers.
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Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 17 Issue 4, Jan 2000, p15-17, il Periodical Website
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4538
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The Research Triangle Metropolitan Area has a long history of churches that are deeply involved in fighting for social justice. Unitarian Universalists and Quakers have the longest tradition in the area, but social-justice agendas stretch across denominations.
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Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 17 Issue 2, Jan 2000, p12-13, il Periodical Website
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4707
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Carolina Power & Light Company plans to increase the number of spent nuclear fuel-rod assemblies that it stores in containment pools at Wake County's Shearon Harris Nuclear Plant. This would make the plant the country's largest storage facility of this type. The plan has placed the company at odds with eleven local governments and an increasing number of concerned citizens.
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Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 17 Issue 1, Jan 2000, p12-13, il Periodical Website
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4761
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The flood that followed Hurricane Floyd devastated eastern Carolina and affected people from all walks of life. Environmental activists, including Neuse Riverkeeper Rick Dove and Nan Freeland, coordinator of the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network, discuss how far people and the region have recovered and what remains to be done.
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Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 17 Issue 12, Mar 2000, p11-12, il Periodical Website
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7049
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Dan Schwankl of Siler City is much involved in social concerns. On November 21, 2005, he was one of fifteen activists arrested for climbing over the fence at the U.S. Army's base at Ft. Benning, Georgia. He, along with 15,000 other people, were there to protest the army's Western Hemispheric Institute for Security Cooperation. The United States operates the school as a combat training facility for Latin American soldiers. Many have been implicated in human rights violations and killings when they returned to their own countries. Schwankl can receive six months in a federal prison if convicted of crossing the line.
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Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 22 Issue 3, Jan 2005, p12, por Periodical Website
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7176
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William \"Bugs\" Powell, who was convicted of the 1991 murder of Shelby convenience store clerk Mary Gladden, was executed at Raleigh's Central Prison on March 11, 2004. Powell is the thirty-fifth person executed in North Carolina since 1984, and the 19th person under Gov. Michael Easley. O'Neill describes Powell's last day.
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Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 22 Issue 11, Mar 2005, p17, 19 Periodical Website
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Earl Richmond, Jr. was convicted of the murder of a mother and her two children in Cumberland County in 1991 and sentenced to death. Richmond was executed in May 2005. O'Neill describes the last days of Richmond and how he had become a changed man during his stay on death row.
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Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 22 Issue 18, May 2005, p15 Periodical Website
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Joe Straley, one of Chapel Hill's leading activists for over forty years, died there on September 21, 2005. Straley taught physics at UNC-Chapel Hill. He received the 2003 Peace Award from North Carolina Peace Action for his work for peace and justice, which included the Civil Rights movement, opposition to war and the death penalty, and American imperialism, especially in Latin America.
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Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 22 Issue 39, Sept 2005, p14-15, por Periodical Website
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