This Saturday, I’ll be joining upwards of 20,000 people in Raleigh, NC, for the Moral March, led by Rev. Barber and the NC NAACP. In what is shaping up to be the largest march in the South since Selma, we’re seeing folks coming in from 32 states to stand with North Carolina.
The entire CSE Team will be marching, along with a broad coalition of hundreds of organizations that are advocating for the most vulnerable residents of North Carolina.
I’m asking you to hop in your car, get to Raleigh and join us at the Moral March.
For folks outside of North Carolina, the Moral Monday movement may be new to you. During the last seven years, Rev. Barber has created an extraordinary movement to call for fair, just policies in North Carolina on issues like voting rights, reproductive rights, public education, health-care, the environment, immigration, and LGBT rights.
Right now, regressive policies are hurting people in North Carolina – causing more children to live in poverty, cutting HIV treatment programs that have proven effective, eroding voting rights, restricting access to reproductive health care, and treating LGBT people as second-class citizens. The list goes on and on and this is why we’re marching.
I’m asking you to join us because this is a movement in which we stand together and have each others backs. Rev. Barber has made sure that LGBT people and issues are a clear, visible part of this movement and I’m grateful for his prophetic leadership – his insistence that we stand together and refuse to be divided along lines of faith, class, race, gender or sexual orientation.
I hope the messages of love and respect for LGBT people – and all people – that will be expressed at the march will make their way into every home across North Carolina.
I really hope to see you there.
Forward together, not one step back!
Jasmine
Rev. Jasmine Beach-Ferrara
Executive Director, Campaign for Southern Equality
p.s. If you are marching on Saturday, I wanted to let you LGBT groups will be marching together. Equality NC has organized for all of us – Equality NC, CSE, The Freedom Center for Social Justice, Mitchell County GSA and many more LGBT groups – to meet at 8:30 a.m. on Wilmington Street between South Street and MLK Jr. Blvd. in Raleigh. The march starts at 9:00 a.m.
