Audio and Video

The Justice Center hosts numerous press events and does original reporting on issues of importance to North Carolina’s working families. This is an expanding library of audio and video clips for use by radio and TV journalists, bloggers, and others interested in the Justice Center’s work.

Radio journalists: feel free to use these clips in preparing segments. For more information, please contact Jeff Shaw, director of communications, 919.863.2402, jeff@ncjustice.org

AUDIO CLIPS FROM NEWS EVENTS

PAID SICK DAYS AUDIO CLIPS

These are sound clips from the NC Paid Sick Days campaign news conference on March 4 at the NC General Assembly. All are MP3 files about 20 seconds in length.

Rep. Alma Adams, sponsor of the Healthy Families, Healthy Workplaces Act: "Real family values mean supporting North Carolina's working families." 

Rep. Alma Adams: "Workers shouldn't have to choose between caring for mom and dad and losing their job."

Blair Brown, a Capital Area Transit bus operator who has access to paid sick days, explains how the policy helped him care for his wife following her accident. His wife’s employer does not supply paid sick days.

Diana Hatch, State President of AARP-NC, explains how more North Carolinians will have caregiving responsibilities in the coming years.

Jeannine Sato of family advocacy group Moms Rising explains why moms are so supportive of paid sick days.

Jeannine Sato: “When we don’t have paid sick days, moms pay the impact of that more than anybody else.”

SECOND CHANCE INITIATIVE AUDIO CLIPS

These are sound clips from the Second Chance Initiative news conference on March 10 at the NC General Assembly. All are MP3 files about 20 seconds in length.

Greenville Chief of Police William Anderson says: “There is a critical period after release where a former offender stands at a crossroads. We have to make criminal behavior unattractive by making sure there are more productive opportunities available, like education and employment. The opportunity to be integrated back into a community reduces crime.”

Wonis Davis, a former offender who now owns a catering business, spoke directly about the power of being integrated back into a community – and the power legitimate employment can play in changing lives.

EMPLOYEE FREE CHOICE ACT AUDIO CLIPS

These are sound clips from the Employee Free Choice Act news conference on February 17 at the NC General Assembly. All are MP3 files about 20 seconds in length.

John Quinterno of the North Carolina Justice Center’s Budget & Tax Center says that unions are key to making sure the producers of the economic pie get a fair slice.

John Quinterno of the North Carolina Justice Center’s Budget & Tax Center says that even in a largely non-union state like North Carolina, unions make workers measurably better off.

North Carolina Representative Ty Harrell says the right to collective bargaining is key to rebuilding the economy and the middle class.

North Carolina Representative Ty Harrell offers statistics for why union workers are better off.

RADIO APPEARANCES BY JUSTICE CENTER STAFF

"Paid Sick Days segment," Lockwood Phillips show, TalkStation- WTKF FM-107.3 & WJNC AM-1240, covering a five county region of eastern N.C., http://www.wtkf107.com/viewpointsradio.html
(Louisa Warren interviewed, MP3 available here (8 megs).)

"Justice Center agenda segment," Lockwood Phillips show, TalkStation- WTKF FM-107.3 & WJNC AM-1240, covering a five county region of eastern N.C., http://www.wtkf107.com/viewpointsradio.html
(Jeff Shaw interviewed, MP3 available here (8 megs).)

For more, see our In the News page, which has direct links to newspaper, TV and radio appearances.