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In These Times
09-04-2012, 11:45 PM
The changeable letter board outside Charlotte, North Carolina’s Wedgewood Baptist Church, just a few miles south of where the Democratic National Convention will be held, read, “Yes, a liberal church.” But the meeting going on inside yesterday, sheltered from the sweltering heat, was somewhat further left-wing than the board suggested.
The thunderous baritone of Saladin Muhammad, coordinator of Southern International Worker Justice, enjoined the assembled congregants to start “a transformative movement that seeks to reorganize the economic, social and political relationships that determine the value of labor, the distribution of the wealth created by the labor, and the lives of people and helps to create sustainability.”


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blindpig
09-05-2012, 10:50 AM
This is a bit of good news and probably one of the few worthwhile things going on in Charlotte this week. It's a tough row to hoe but ya gotta start somewhere.

Wish there were more on this.