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Moral Mondays: Civil Disobedience in a Changing South
With total control in North Carolina, Republicans are enacting an ultra-conservative agenda, sparking the South’s largest, most sustained protest movement in years.
By Warren Olney • • 52m ListenWith total control in North Carolina, Republicans are enacting an ultra-conservative agenda, sparking the largest and most sustained protest movement seen in the South in years. Is the GOP fighting a losing battle or is the South as solid as ever? Also, government troops kill dozens and injure hundreds in Cairo, and landing in San Francisco, too low and too slow.
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3 storiesGovernment Troops Kill Dozens, Injure Hundreds at Pro-Morsi Rally
Today in Cairo, at least 51 people were killed and 435 injured during a rally in support of Egypt's ousted President, Mohamed Morsi. His Muslim Brotherhood called for an uprising against those it accused of wanting to "steal the revolution." That's according to Borzou Daragahi in today's Financial Times .
Read the story8 minCan 'Moral Mondays' Change the South?
Occupy Wall Street's accused of crying, "Wolf." Weeks of protests failed to move Republicans in Wisconsin. Will it be different in North Carolina? In 2008, Barack Obama carried the state and there was talk of another Southern State turning purple.
Read the story35 minLearning from the 777 Crash at San Francisco Airport
Saturday in San Francisco, two passengers were killed and many were injured when an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 struck a sea wall at the end of a runway, broke into pieces and caught fire. It's known that the plane was flying to low and too slow, but pilot error is only one subject under investigation.
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