Lobby Day (June 17) It was our first meeting of the day with representative Timothy Spear and I was hoping I wasn't about to be SPEARED. I was pretty nervous going into his office (hello: this guy is the big leagues!) because this was the first time I had ever done any sort of lobbying [...]
This week we had our first experience lobbying our elected officials regarding legislation that we want to see passed and I must say, given the hardwork me and Cristina put into calling supporters to invite them to lobby day, calling (and according to Cristina, my "sweetalking" the Legislative Aide's into meetings) legislators, and finally showing [...]
Just in case you guys feel you are the only ones who are blogging on behalf of democracy this summer... I thought you might like to take a look at a recent blog post that came out of Iran, where ordinary housewives, citizens and even policemen are taking to the streets to call for reform [...]
Yesterday (Monday, June 15th), some Durham staffers and our Durham interns, Christina and Brian, headed over to the General Assembly in Raleigh to support a coalition called Together NC in demonstrating for wise state budget choices that do not ignore the needs of North Carolina's people. As you can see from the photos below, taken [...]
Hey Everyone, It's a week and a half into the internship and over here with the Fayetteville team, things have been going great...well now it is! For the first two days we didn't have any air or any Internet, which left us hot and without any access to the outside world. Every time we needed [...]
Week 2: Week 2 for the Greenville team kept both Brittany and I in CHECK as we completed three days of some intense phoneBANKing. Brittany is a pro on the phone though, she was able to get through almost 70 callers a day while my slow self barely completed 50 calls. We both decided it [...]
Week two of Democracy Summer entailed Young Democrat meetings, potato bread and trips to Fox Studio Charlotte. We began the week with a visit from our illustrious leader, Adam, for instruction on how to phone bank properly and schedule speaking engagements. With his guidance, America and I chatted our way to more than 25 commitments [...]
This week in greensboro we met with Former Chief Justice Henry Frye (an AGGIE Alum). Augustine, Adam and I had lunch at the Marriott with Justice Frye and although the food left much to be desired, we had a great conversation! Later on we attended a town hall meeting with Senator Don Vaughn . This [...]
EDITED FROM THURSDAY So today we had an extremely prestigious meeting with NC Supreme Court Chief Justice Henry E. Frye. That was truly amazing, I had met him before but in a meeting with others. This time it was a one-on-one meeting with him, I, Shae and Adam. When we got to the [...]
DURHAM: I can’t believe week two is almost over! Brian and I had a really productive week. We spoke at the Chapel Hill/Carrboro NAACP meeting last weekend, met with a group from Carol Woods Community Retirement on Tuesday, gave a presentation on voter-owned elections to the Chatham County Democratic Women on Wednesday, had our first [...]