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Local 965 Marches in 2018 M.L. King Parade

 

Mike Pierce and Tricia Starks represent AFSCME Local 965 at Fayetteville’s Martin Luther King Jr. march Jan. 15, 2018.
Mike Pierce (left) and Ted Swedenburg represent AFSCME Local 965 at Fayetteville’s Martin Luther King Jr. march Jan. 15, 2018.

AFSCME 965 members Ted Swedenburg and Mike Pierce represent the local in Fayetteville’s 2018 Martin Luther King, Jr. Freedom March.

About 400 people braved the cold to commemorate the life of King, the pastor and civil rights leader who was assassinated while leading an AFSCME sanitation workers strike in Memphis in 1968.

The local program was organized by the Northwest Arkansas Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Council. The march moved along Razorback Road from Martin Luther King Boulevard to the University of Arkansas Union. A vigil with speeches and a performance by the Inspirational Chorale followed in the union. The day ended with the council’s 22nd annual MLK Recommitment Banquet at the Fayetteville Town Center.

Discussion: Concealed Carry at University of Arkansas

Professor Steve K. Boss of the University of Arkansas Department of Geosciences leads an Aug. 15, 2017, panel on the state’s new law allowing guns on campus. The session was held at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Fayetteville.
Local 965 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees hosted a forum Aug. 15, 2017, on Arkansas new law allowing concealed weapons to be carried on campuses statewide. Panelists included Mark Rushing, assistant vice chancellor of University Relations of the University of Arkansas, UA Police Chief Steve Gahagans, UA Associate General Counsel Matt McCoy and Fayetteville police officer Scott Carlton of the Fayetteville Police Department. The session was held at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Fayetteville.
More than 50 people attended the Aug. 15, 2017, panel discussion on Arkansas’ new law allowing concealed weapons to be carried on campuses statewide. The session was held at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Fayetteville and featured officials of the University of Arkansas.

A summer panel discussion on a new state law in Arkansas allowed holders of “enhanced” concealed weapon permits to carry weapons on most parts of most college and university campuses was summarized in “Guns-On-Campus Information Session Addresses Safety Concerns” in the campus newspaper Arkansas Traveler. It notes:

About 55 people, including UA professors and officials, attended an information session Aug. 15 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Fayetteville regarding Act 562, the law that requires Arkansas public colleges to allow people to carry concealed handguns, said Steve Boss, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees member and UA geoscience professor.