Protesters returned to the North Carolina General Assembly Monday evening, but in accordance with new rules regarding decorum in the Legislative Building, they avoided causing a disturbance.
Hundreds of people in the “Moral Monday” movement put tape across their mouths so they couldn’t be accused of being loud enough to disrupt conversations, which is one of the standards set last week by a legislative committee for asking people to leave the Legislative Building and arresting them if they don’t comply.
Rev. William Barber, state NAACP president and a leader of the Moral Monday protests, said demonstrators wanted to draw attention to what he called the outrageous nature of the new Legislative Building rules. But he called on supporters not to perform any act of civil disobedience Monday.
Rather, protesters, who brought loaves of bread to share in a so-called “love feast,” quietly marched into the building two-by-two, circled up to the second floor and then headed back down and out. The circuit took more than an hour for everyone to complete.
Last year, hundreds of people were arrested during the weekly protests at the General Assembly over a Republican agenda that included cutting unemployment benefits, changing election laws and refusing to expand the Medicaid program.
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