From the Rhino Times:
"Here is a note to the folks of Westerwood and Southside who spoke at the Greensboro City Council meeting on Tuesday: Mayor Perkins didn't want to allow you to speak. Before the meeting he told Councilmember Yvonne Johnson that the council had heard from the public once and would hear from the public again if an ordinance was presented, so the council didn't have to dhear from the public at that meeting. He also noted that a lot of speakers had signed up and it would take a long time to hear them all.
While Perkins was speaking, Johnson was rolling her eyes and evidently she convinced Perkins that to tell over 100 people who had come to the meeting for this issue that they could not speak would have been political suicide. But Perkins clearly wanted to deny speakers the right to speak.
This is the same Perkins who made a huge deal out of speakers from the floor being moved to later in the meeting by former Mayor Bill Knight. For the record, when the City Council took its two-hour break at 7:42, the speakers from the floor had not yet been heard, so they are definitely not first on the agenda."
Business as usual under Greensboro's Fascist regime. The article also points out the City of Greensboro granted Duke Power the right to destroy all our trees. Funny, no one wants to talk about that.
"Here is a note to the folks of Westerwood and Southside who spoke at the Greensboro City Council meeting on Tuesday: Mayor Perkins didn't want to allow you to speak. Before the meeting he told Councilmember Yvonne Johnson that the council had heard from the public once and would hear from the public again if an ordinance was presented, so the council didn't have to dhear from the public at that meeting. He also noted that a lot of speakers had signed up and it would take a long time to hear them all.
While Perkins was speaking, Johnson was rolling her eyes and evidently she convinced Perkins that to tell over 100 people who had come to the meeting for this issue that they could not speak would have been political suicide. But Perkins clearly wanted to deny speakers the right to speak.
This is the same Perkins who made a huge deal out of speakers from the floor being moved to later in the meeting by former Mayor Bill Knight. For the record, when the City Council took its two-hour break at 7:42, the speakers from the floor had not yet been heard, so they are definitely not first on the agenda."
Business as usual under Greensboro's Fascist regime. The article also points out the City of Greensboro granted Duke Power the right to destroy all our trees. Funny, no one wants to talk about that.
