New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has told University of North Carolina graduates that last week’s gay marriage vote shows there is still a lot of work to be done for civil rights in this country. Bloomberg spoke Sunday to thousands of graduates at Kenan Memorial Stadium.
Their version of success that is held up as normal is one that says life is a struggle of everybody against everybody else, and you have to sacrifice what makes your heart sing. But everything is changing. … We need to devote ourselves … to the service of the planet, to other beings, to give of our gifts in whatever way feels right.
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| — | Charles Eisenstein, author of “Sacred Economics,” spearking at Occupy UNC’s “alternative” commencement in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, quoted in Occupy UNC holds ‘alternative’ commencement - Local/State - NewsObserver.com (via bohemiansouth) |
Nineteen elected leaders from Orange County [North Carolina] declared their opposition to Amendment One outside Carrboro Town Hall Saturday morning. “People ask me if we’re gonna win this fight,” Chapel Hill Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt said beneath a giant elm tree. “Damn right we’re gonna win this fight!” The proposed amendment to the state Constitution would define marriage as between one man and one woman and prohibit other forms of government-recognized domestic union such as civil unions.
Obama’s message to students was simple: Higher education is crucial for the country’s future and keeping college affordable is necessary.
Doris Betts, the celebrated Southern writer who for decades nurtured others as a creative writing professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, died Saturday at the age of 79.Betts passed away at her home, Araby Farm, near Pittsboro, more than a year after being diagnosed with lung cancer.The author of six novels and three collections of short stories, among other works, Betts was sometimes compared to the great Southern writer Flannery O’Connor.
