Transcripts from Looking Back & Moving Forward, Together September 11, 2014 Raleigh, North Carolina
Reverend Barber Q & A Alicia Harvie: Okay. So what we‟ll do, if you have a question, say who you are and what work you do, and then we‟ll do the conversation. Does anyone have something they want to throw out there or throw to the discussion? Okay, sounds better? Okay, so what we‟ll do is raise your hand if you are interested in asking a question or throwing something out for discussion. Just say who you are and where you‟re from and who you work with, and we will continue the conversation. Does anyone want to start? There are a lot of not shy people in this room so someone. I know. Laughing. Are we shy? Alright. Reverend Barber: You know, sometimes farmers come to a place where there‟s no more time for talking, it‟s time for plowing. It sounds like maybe they want to do some plowing, you know, it‟s time to go to work. So, are there any? I just want not to be rude if there are any, even criticisms because I think we grow when we have conversation together. All right. Yes ma‟am, yes ma‟am. Rhonda Perry: My name is Rhonda Perry. I‟m a farmer from Missouri and we‟ve got a whole crew of farmers here today. We are so glad to be here. That‟s one of the most impressive things I think a lot of us have seen going on in a long time in North Carolina. We talk about you frequently. We‟re organizing the same kind of base in Missouri and we think it‟s absolutely fabulous. And I don‟t think that any of us from the Missouri contingency can offer anything but great hope for your work here and our work in Missouri. And I assume you all are passing Medicaid expansion this year and we are passing Medicaid expansion this year. We are confident. I did have one question that I just didn‟t get written down, and I thought this was really important. You had 4 things you were calling for that are “historically accurate” and three things that I did not get. If you wouldn‟t mind laying those four things out to us again, I think that would be really helpful for us to carry forward our work in places like Missouri. Thank you so much for sharing the work you‟re doing here with the work that we‟re all doing in our states. Thank you. Reverend Barber: Thank you so much. We are not passing Medicaid expansion. We are fighting for it because, as I said, our legislature denied it. The very guy that is running for the Senate, Thom Tillis, who wants to be a United States Senator now, has actually been against Medicaid expansion and has said that raising the minimum wage is a dangerous idea. So, we are challenging that. We are actually looking
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