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Black Women’s Equal Pay Day Aug 22
Check out these sobering stats from the New York Times. This Thursday is what’s known as “Black Women’s Equal Pay Day,” which represents the number of days into 2019 that full-time working black women must work to earn what their white male counterparts earned last year (in other words: eight extra months). Here are a…
Read More“Kids Rising” Family Event to Raise Funds for WNC Immigrant Families
NEWS RELEASE: “Kids Rising” family event offers kids a chance to support immigrant children and families through writing and art while raising funds to help local immigrant families August 14, 2019 (Asheville NC) — On Saturday afternoon, August 24, the Auditorium at Pack Memorial Library in downtown Asheville will be transformed into a giant play…
Read MorePartisan Gerrymandering
The United States Supreme Court has ruled that the Federal judiciary has no role to play in resolving questions about partisan gerrymandering, but in North Carolina a state-level judicial challenge remains active.
Read MoreAsheville Joins Groups Across the State in Candlelight Vigil to Expand Medicaid
“Healthcare Can’t Wait” was the theme of 22 simultaneous Candlelight Vigils across the state held at 7:00 pm Wednesday, June 5th, to call attention to the fact that Medicaid Expansion is a matter of life and death.
Read MoreMEDIA RELEASE: Vigils in Asheville and across NC to honor those who died in the Medicaid coverage gap
Indivisible AVL will host a Candlelight Vigil on Wednesday, June 5, 2019, 7-8 pm, in solidarity with 22 Vigils across the state, to call for Medicaid Expansion in NC and honor those who have suffered and died from lack of access to care.
Read MoreERA: Letter to the Editor, Asheville Citizen-Times
On Friday, May 10, the Asheville Citizen-Times published a Letter to the Editor from Robin Lively-Summers, a member of Indivisible AVL’s Steering Committee.
Read MoreRelease the Report: An Ordinary Citizen’s View
Indivisible AVL volunteers and supporters held a press conference for the local media on Thursday, April 4, at 3:00 pm, in support of the “Release The Report” National Day of Action and public rally held later that day. A local attorney presented brief remarks on the legal perspective on the importance of releasing the full…
Read More“Make It Public!” Press Conference Urges Sen. Tillis to Call for Making Mueller Report Public
Indivisible AVL and Progress NC Action held a press conference in front of Sen. Tillis’s Hendersonville office on March 26, with 5,000 petitions urging him to make the Mueller Report public.
Read MoreHendersonville Press Conference March 27 on Petitioning Sen. Tillis to Make the Mueller Report Public
A coalition of grassroots activist groups will gather Wednesday at 12:30 to speak to the press and deliver boxes of over 5,000 signed petitions to Sen. Tillis, urging him make the full Mueller Report public.
Read MoreSign Now: Make the Mueller Report Public!
Sign this petition to Senators Tillis and Burr, urging them to take action to make the Mueller Report public. Then join us Wednesday afternoon, March 27, at 12:30 pm, as we deliver a stack of petitions to Sen. Tillis’s office at the Historic Courthouse Square in Hendersonville. The petition states simply: “Americans have the right…
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