Last week, I witnessed my friends and peers, students and young people from across the state, more engaged with North Carolina’s political process than anytime since the Presidential election. As I woke up from a nap late Tuesday evening, I found Facebook, Twitter, and all the various social networks my generation clings to ablaze with [...]
The Fayetteville team is continuing our advocate work serving local communities. We recently traveled to Wilmington, NC the monthly New Hanover County coalition meeting. We all gathered in the meeting room of the historic St. Stephen AME Church with a group that included prominent members of the community who are advocate leaders in the region. [...]
I have lived in the Charlotte area for about 7 years, but I had not heard of the Citizens Review Board until recently. Matt Newton, one of Democracy North Carolina’s big supporters in the area, is leading the campaign to give the Citizens Review Board the power to actually do the job it’s been tasked [...]
As a student, I am well acquainted with the phrase, “Knowledge is power.” However, I never truly understood the true meaning of this phrase until a few days ago, when we held our first Democracy Summer event. On Saturday morning, June 22, we held a film festival in the Forsyth County Public Library, “Justice Denied [...]
Of all the times for us to have taken on this internship, we feel blessed to be interning for Democracy NC right now. From Moral Mondays to the Supreme Court decisions, we are witnessing something truly historic in this state and nation. This past Monday was the biggest Moral Monday yet, with thousands of protesters [...]
On Wednesday June 27, 2013, Charlotte team got a chance to protest against the Duke rate hikes in front of the Mecklenburg county courthouse. We fired people up by leading chants and passing out petitions. We also got the chance to be citizen advocates by giving our testimonies on the stand! This was my first [...]
In the past weeks, our team has made great progress in our goals to increase outreach to rural communities. Just last week we met with the Native American Intertribal Counsel in Hoke County. We were invited into their community meeting area where they hold meetings, movie nights, and various other gatherings. We had the opportunity [...]
Again this week, the students participating in the Democracy Summer program are showing the work they're doing every day through photos. The images below offer a view through the lens of the young people who are on the front lines of the fight for voting rights -and so much more- in this state. From historical [...]
Over the past week, the Democracy Summer interns have been hard at work across the state carrying the message that our state wants a government that is of, by, and for the people, free of the influence of big money. Students had the opportunity to speak to their local community groups, join in demonstrations at [...]
“Democracy was coming back to North Carolina.” “It had been a long time since I had seen people come together in a massive movement to make change. I had not seen as huge a crowd since 2010, as during the health care movement. I didn’t think that was possible again in North Carolina,” says Dr. [...]