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28352
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The North Carolina Stop Torture Now coalition is the winner of a 2007 Indy Citizen Award. The group was created after learning of the Johnston County CIA contractors Aero Contractors’ involvement in the CIA’s torture program. The group believes torture is morally wrong as well as constitutionally forbidden and practically useless. The group has held several protests and is intent on convincing state and federal authorities that the charges against Aero Contractors warrant investigation and the CIA’s rendition program should be ended.
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Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 24 Issue 47, November 2007, p19 Periodical Website
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28353
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Al McSurley is the winner of a 2007 Indy Citizen Award. McSurely is the Legal Redress Chair of the NC NAACP and works to fight racism using the law. The Chapel Hill resident operated a civil rights law practice prior to his retirement and was known for taking cases that nobody wanted. McSurely is unusual as a white lawyer who works almost exclusively with the civil rights movement, but his work is his way of seeing justice and equality become a reality.
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Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 24 Issue 47, November 2007, p20 Periodical Website
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28363
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A small Chapel Hill environmental group called the Student Environmental Action Coalition has become a national coalition of 30,000 students. The group deals with issues that affect the natural environment, and also issues that affect the man-made environment. At the group’s national conference, the environmentalists were encouraged to confront issues of race, class, and social justice. This mindset and other details behind how the group has expanded from a small, Chapel Hill to a large, nationwide group are explored.
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Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 10 Issue 7, February 1992, p7 Periodical Website
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28407
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Roz Savitt is the winner of a 1993 Independent Weekly Citizen Award. Savitt is a lobbyist at the NC General Assembly. She was ranked as the 12th most effective lobbyist and most effective female lobbyist. She has played a key role in expanding funds for child-protective services, enacting the first AIDS anti-discrimination statute, eliminating the death penalty for juveniles and repealing the marital rape exemption.
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Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 11 Issue 47, November 1993, p9 Periodical Website
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28408
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The Northampton Citizens Against Pollution are winners of a 1993 Independent Weekly Citizen Award. The group recently defeated attempts to locate a hazardous-waste incinerator in their county. Industrial hog farms may be the next target of the group as the grassroots organization is committed to changing the way government and business is conducted in Northampton County.
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Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 11 Issue 47, November 1993, p10 Periodical Website
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28410
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Lynice Williams is the winner of a 1993 Independent Weekly Citizen Award. Williams is the executive direction of the grassroots advocacy group NC Fair Share. Williams and her group works to achieve social justice and their work has helped low- and moderate-income North Carolinians find good, affordable health care.
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Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 11 Issue 47, November 1993, p12 Periodical Website
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28452
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Mab Segrest is one of North Carolina’s best-known organizers against racist and homophobic violence. An excerpt of Segrest’s new work, Memoir of a Race Traitor, is published here. The memoir tells of her work with North Carolinians Against Racist and Religious Violence, organizing against the Klan and Nazi movements in places like Statesville, Shelby, and Robeson County. Segrest’s personal story is also told and how she became a “race traitor.”
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Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 12 Issue 17, April-May 1994, p21-25 Periodical Website
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31384
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North Carolinians Against Drunk Driving is one of many anti-drunk driving organizations that are working to change public attitudes, as well as legal penalties, affecting drunk driving. In addition to communication efforts, they are also monitoring to see how lenient drunk drivers are treated by the courts.
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Carolina Country (NoCar HD 9688 N8 C38x), Vol. 15 Issue 2, Feb 1983, p9-10, por
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43441
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In this article the author is discussing Trumps twitter posts and response to Hurricane Maria destroying Puerto Rico. The author goes on to discuss that Trump goes after people of color peacefully protesting police brutality but stand up for white supremacists that marched in Charlottesville march. This was also while not sending enough aid and disregarding Puerto Rico which was just destroyed by Hurricane Maria.
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In this article the author is discussing a North Carolina based charter flight company, Aero, being involved with CIA and the transport of suspected terrorists. Aero is a charter flight company based in Smithfield, NC that uses the local public airport to take off at. In the article Abou Elkassim Britel talks about his experiences with being detained and tortured because the CIA suspected him to be a terrorist. Critics called Aero flights “torture taxis” and demand that the NC government would investigate this situation but the government responded by ignoring the requests. Aero uses public airports which mean that these flights are paid and funded by tax payer money. This cause the creation of NCIT, North Carolina-based Commission of Inquiry on Torture.
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In this article the author is discussing a new policy being implemented across the UNC system. The new policy was put in place by the UNC Board of Governors and this new policy stated that if any protests on campus disrupt or hinder a speaker, meeting, or class, sanctions can be put on the protesters. This can include suspension, banning from campus, and expulsion. Many professors and students alike disagree with this new policy and have petitioned to get it removed.
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In this article the author is discussing how Durham city council was going to revamp their bus system but take away the free busses. GoDurham says that the proposal will have more simplified services and be adding an all-day service. GoDurham states that to be able to provide a fare free service they would need to look for more funding. Before the city council has been funding two-thirds of the $1.1 million bill and Duke covered the remainder. Recently Duke has cut their funding which means less funding going to the annual costs of transit.
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