State of Conflict: North Carolina

Bill Moyers in Conversation

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4.8 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2014

⏱️ 52 minutes

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0:00.0	I'm Bill Moyers. It's good to have your ear. This week on Warriors & Company.
0:06.6	Welcome. On this first weekend of the year, we're looking at one state that embodies the conflicts roiling the whole country.
0:15.5	The battle to determine America's agenda is being fought in state politics.
0:26.3	On one side, a government controlled by the most right-wing conservatives of the Republican Party who are remaking their state and their image fueled by the wealth and power of one very rich man.
0:32.9	On the other side, a very vocal mix of citizens whose resistance turned the first day of every week
0:39.2	into a moral Monday.
0:43.4	A Monday in July. Raleigh, North Carolina. A procession moves toward the State House.
0:51.0	We all together. Not one step back. In the top of education, what do we do? We do we toward the State House. We're going to talk to education.
0:55.0	What do we do?
0:56.0	We fight, we fight, we fight, we fight!
0:59.0	We come to health care.
1:00.0	What do we do?
1:01.0	We fight, we fight, we fight!
1:03.0	My name is Chief Weaver with John West Street Police.
1:06.0	This is the law from assembly.
1:08.0	We have five minutes to disperse and leave the office.
1:12.8	Once inside, they block doors and passageways, knowing it will get them arrested.
1:24.2	They are part of a movement that's become known as Moral Mondays.
1:28.0	Thousands rally in protesting at the North Carolina Statehouse for weeks.
1:31.6	It's been called Moral Monday.
1:33.6	It's a protest against the state...
1:34.9	At the Moral Mondays protest here in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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