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If the success of Moral Monday is any indication, the Feb. 8 march could indeed be monumental. On 13 Mondays last year, a coalition of organizations spanning ethnic and religious groups descended on the grounds of the general assembly in a display of civil disobedience. The group protested cuts to unemployment benefits, the erosion of voter rights, refusal to expand Medicaid and the overall assault on the poor. More than 900 people were arrested. Moral Mondays was so successful that it spread to Georgia this year.

Moral March on Raleigh could be equally diverse. On Tuesday, Barber was one of several speakers at Little Rock A.M.E. Zion church. The group included the bishop of a predominately gay congregation along with a Hispanic community leader.

“We’re going to standfast and fight against every evil that they can bring out of that general assembly, “ said Charlotte NAACP Kojo Nantambu. “We are here because we want to sponsor, we want to initiate, and we want to carry out, we want to support and sustain a moral movement.”

The goals of the Feb. 8 march are:

Motivate citizens to be involved in protecting constitutional rights

Meet every challenge to suppress the right to vote

Mobilize people to be educated on the issues and to vote

Remove obstacles to prevent people from voting

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