Moral March on Raleigh & HKonJ PEOPLE’S ASSEMBLY
No time to stand down – we must stay strong and endure
The Historic Thousands on Jones Street (HKonJ) People’s Assembly Coalition is made up of the more than 125 North Carolina NAACP branches, youth councils, and college chapters from across the state and members of over 200 other social justice organizations.
UPCOMING HKonJ Events
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
HKonJ People’s Assembly
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HOW IT STARTED
2008 – 2017
The HKonJ Coalition holds an annual mobilization called the Moral March on Raleigh & HKonJ People’s Assembly. It has grown to approximately 80,000 in 2017! Each year, on the 2nd Saturday in February, thousands of HKonJ marchers flood downtown Raleigh, NC where the HKonJ People’s Assembly convenes and ultimately marches to the North Carolina State Capitol.
Less than two months later, the HKonJ Coalition kicked off its first annual “HKonJ People’s Assembly” in February of 2007 when over 3,500 supporters sanctioned and signed the coalition’s “HKonJ 14-Point People’s Agenda” (with detailed action steps). The HKonJ Coalition transformed the 14-Point People’s Agenda into comprehensive reform bills that have been introduced in legislative sessions.
2007
2006
In December of 2006, under the leadership of HKonJ Convener, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, who also serves as the President of the NC NAACP State Conference, HKonJ held its first organizing meeting with a diverse group of some of the state’s best organizers, political scientists, lawyers, religious leaders, and activists.
The PEOPLE’s AGENDA.
Since it was sanctioned and signed in 2007, the HKonJ Coalition has transformed the 14-Point People’s Agenda into comprehensive reform bills that have been introduced in legislative sessions.
WHAT WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED.
Just a few of HKonJ achievements include:
Successfully preventing the unconstitutional resegregation of Wake County Schools (the largest school system in NC)
An increase in the minimum wage
Successful passage of The Racial Justice Act
Obtained Same Day voter registration and extended Early Voting
Won Smithfield workers their right to unionize
Helped to initiate groundwork for former Governor Perdue’s “Eugenics Compensation Program Bill.”
After an avalanche of extreme and immoral policies passed during the 2013 Legislative Session, under the leadership of the NC NAACP, the HKonJ Coalition continued their work under the banner of the Forward Together Moral Movement and organized 13 Moral Mondays and over 25 local Moral Mondays across the state once the session ended.
This nationally known movement has spread to dozens of states and has inspired people across the nation. The HKonJ Coalition has continued to hold Moral Monday mass demonstrations at the state capitol while also fighting extremist laws and legislators in the courts and at the ballot box. We successfully won three voting rights lawsuits that overturned key aspects of the 2013 voter suppression law and found both the congressional and state districts in North Carolina to be racially gerrymandered and unconstitutional.
COALITION MEMBERS
Immigrant Justice
- Action NC
- Adelante Education Coalition
- Association of Mexicans in North Carolina (AMEXCAN)
- Comite Popular Somos Raleigh
- El Centro Hispano
- El Kilombo Intergalactico
- El Pueblo
- El Vinculo Hispano (Hispanic Liaison)
- Farm Labor Organizing Committee
- Hendfact (Henderson Fuerza Activa)
- Reform Immigration for America
- Si a las Licencias NC
Labor and Worker's Rights
- AFL-CIO of NC
- Black Workers for Justice
- Faculty Forward NC
- Farmworkers Advocacy Network
- National Farmworker Ministry
- NC Public Service Union UE 150
- Raise Up for 15
- Southern Faith, Labor & Community Alliance
- Southern Piedmont Central Labor Council
- Student Action with Farmworkers
- Student Action with Workers
- Teamsters Local 391
- UE Local 150
- UFCW Local 1208
- United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW)
- Working America (AFL-CIO Affiliate)
Health Care
- Health Care for All
- NC AIDS Action Network
- NC Harm Reduction Coalition
- Old North State Medical Society
- Old North State Medical Society
- Opportunities Industrialization Center
- Qualified Mental Health Professional
- UNC Gillings Public Health
Economic Justice/Development
Environmental Justice
- Canary Coalition
- Cape Fear River Watch
- Clean Water for NC
- Coalition to End Environmental Racism (CEER)
- Food and Water Watch
- Greenpeace NC Charlotte
- NC Environmental Justice Network
- NC Green Party
- NC Peace Action
- NC Public Interest Research Group (PIRG)
- NC Warm Reduction Coalition *
- NC WARN
- Rogers Eubanks Neighborhood Association
Faith & Religion
- Binkley Baptist Church Outreach Committee
- Chapel Hill Friends Meeting
- Church of Reconciliation PCUSA
- Community Church of Chapel Hill
- Community United Church of Christ
- Cornerstone Church of God
- Covenant Community Church (Indian Trail, NC)
- Covenant Community Church of Raleigh
- Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church Rocky Mount
- Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
- Faith In Public Life
- First Baptist Church of Murfreesboro
- General Baptist State Convention
- Greater Joy Baptist Church
- Imani Metropolitian Community Church
- Muhammad’s Mosque No. 79
- Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation
- National Farmworker Ministry
- New Hope Presbytery Peacemaking Committee
- NC Association of Women in Ministry
- NC Council of Churches
- New Beginnings Temple of Faith COGIC
- Pentecostal Church Fellowship
- Poplar Springs Christian Church
- Pullen Memorial Baptist Church
- Rutba House
- SURGE Youth Ministry
- Temple Beth Or Social Action Committee
- Unitarian Universalist Association
- Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Raleigh
- United Church of Chapel Hill UCC
Justice in Education
- Common Cause NC
- Evolve Mentoring, Inc.
- Great Schools in Wake
- National Chapter of Greenville Industrial CMSHS Alumni Association
- NC Association of Educators
- NC Child
- NCCU Graduate Student Association
- NC Student Power Union
- NC Youth & College Division
- Public Schools First NC
- Triangle Lost Generation Task Force
- UNC-Chapel Hill Campus Y
Police Reform/Criminal Justice
- Beloved Community Center of Greensboro
- Campaign 4 Change
- Carolina Justice Policy Center
- Center for Community Change
- Community Success Initiative
- Concerned Citizens of Tillery
- Good Work Inc*
- Human Rights Center of Chapel Hill & Carrboro
- NC Alternatives of the Death Penalty
- NC Coalition for a Moratorium
- NC Justice Center
- People of Faith Against the Death Penalty
- SERA Inc (Southeast Raleigh Assembly)
- Southern Anti-Racism Network
Voting Rights
- Democracy NC
- Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People
- Durham People’s Alliance
- Move to Amend of Far Western NC-Sylva
- NC A Phillip Randolph Institute
- NC Black Leadership Caucus
- NC Voters for Clean Elections
- Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ)
- Triangle Urban League
Islamaphobia
- Muslims For Social Justice
Youth Organizing
- Hip Hop Haven
- NC HEAT
- NC NAACP Youth & College Division
- NC NAACP Youth and College Division
- Sacrificial Poets
- Students for a Democratic Society – UNC-CH
LGBTQ Rights
- Campaign For Southern Equality
- Equality NC
- Freedom Center for Social Justice
- Progressive Community Collaborative
- Queer People of Color Collective
- Southerners on New Ground (SONG)
Women's Rights
- Durham NOW
- NARAL Pro-Choice NC
- NC Association of Women in Ministry
- NC Concerned Women for Justice
- NC Concerned Women for Justice
- NC MomsRising
- NC National Organization for Women (NOW)
- NC Women United
- NC4ERA
- Planned Parenthood
- Planned Parenthood Health Systems – South Atlantic
- Raging Grannies
- Triad NOW
- Women in NAACP (WIN)
- Women NC
- Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Democracy, Civil and Human Rights
- ACLU of NC
- Chatham Changemakers
- Citizens in Action
- Coalition Against Racism (CAR)
- Durham Martin Luther King Steering Committee
- NC Asian Americans Together
- Neighbors on Call: Taking Action for Progress
- Traction
- Triangle MLK Committee
Peace Advocacy
- American Friends Service Committee
- Chapel Hill Elders for Peace
- Code Pink
- Ethical Humanist Society of the Triangle
- Fayetteville Peace March & Rally
- Franciscan Coalition for Justice and Peace
- Jewish Voice For Peace – Triangle
- New Hope Presbytery Peacemaking Committee
- NC Peace Action
- NC Stop Torture Now
- Vegans For Peace
- Veterans For Peace, Eisenhower Chapter
- Womens International League for Peace & Freedom
Fraternities & Sororities
Press & Communication
People's Assemblies (LPA)
- Cumberland People’s Assembly
- Mountain People’s Assembly