On Saturday, August 2, 2014, about 200 almost all-white Moore County Tea Citizens and supporters gathered in Pinehurst North Carolina’s Cannon Park for a Fifth Anniversary Picnic and Rally.  A three-piece country band played popular favorites.  Three gray-haired women, full of vim if not vigor, were celebrated as the local…

This report on the Tea Party in North Carolina details the movement’s constituent organizations, the issues they mobilize around, and their impact on public policy.  It also describes the broad-based non-electoral opposition it has engendered.  As the Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights (IREHR) reported in January 2014,…

  Foreword Exposing the Hard Right's Bag of Tricks Against Poor and Working White People by Alan McSurely, Civil Rights Lawyer Communications Committee Chair, North Carolina NAACP In 1967, some of us went across the mountains into Eastern Kentucky to start the task of rebuilding the Black-White fusion political movement…

  Preface By Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II President, NC NAACP Conference of Branches This report by Leonard Zeskind and Devin Burghart both grieves us and grabs us. It grieves us because almost 14 years into the 21st century it exposes the Tea Party agenda and how the North…

Preface By Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II President, NC NAACP Conference of Branches This report by Leonard Zeskind and Devin Burghart both grieves us and grabs us. It grieves us because almost 14 years into the 21st century it exposes the Tea Party agenda and how the North Carolina…

. Eric D. Knowles, Brian S. Lowery, Elizabeth P. Shulman and Rebecca L Schaumberg, “Race, Ideology and the Tea Party: A Longitudinal Study,” p. 6, PLOS Open Access, June 2013, Vol 8, Issue 6, www.plosone.org . Ibid, p. 4. . Ibid, p. 8. . Christopher Parker and Matt Barreto, Change…

Raises Cancer Risk Rates Under Preliminary Water Quality Plan On the heels of lobbying by big business, the Washington State Department of Ecology has proposed a preliminary draft rule for water quality standards that could continue to undermine ecological health, tribal treaty rights and environmental justice by raising the risk…