The posts in this category discuss our core issues.
For the first half of 2011, the single largest political donor to the presidential campaigns of Barak Obama and Mitt Romney is the same: the executives of Goldman Sachs! While the two campaigns split $360,000 given by the execs, Goldman Sachs was investing seven time that much, $2.4 million, to lobby Congress for its agenda: [...]
“The financial industry is a service industry. It should serve others before it serves itself.” -Christine Lagarde Friday the 15th marked our first official screening adventure. The YWCA had permitted us to show the “Inside Job” film and it was a great success! Overall, we were extremely pleased because we obtained approximately 30 petition signatures [...]
Catawba College professor of politics and history Dr. Michael Blitzer has sorted through the data for the General Assembly districts proposed by the Republican majority. His conclusion: 90% of the seats are drawn with a decidedly partisan tilt, heavily toward the Republicans, nearly guaranteeing that party majority control of both legislative chambers for the next [...]
The Respect Our Vote Coalition held another demonstration outside the General Assembly this week, in blazing heat and high spirits. Browse these photos of the event and also this story from WRAL-TV, with a link to a video clip of Democracy NC organizer Shaunee Morgan, the super MC for the day. People from all over [...]
The different teams of Democracy North Carolina gathered on the sunny early afternoon of July the 13th to test our safety in numbers against the wrath of political economic power. It was the event of our rights! We began signing people in and just collecting in front of the government building while having speakers fire [...]
I brought my 13-year old daughter with me last Wednesday to Democracy NC's voting rights rally so she could balance way too many episodes of "Millionaire Matchmaker" and "Dawson's Creek" with a dose of real life. She got it in spades, too, when a man arriving for the counter-protest mounted by AFP was rude to [...]
The American Legislative Exchange Council brings together corporations (from Koch Industries to Coca-Cola), conservative state legislators, and rightwing think tanks to fabricate model bills that advance their common interests: reduce government regulation and taxes; increase the transfer of wealth from average Americans to the super rich. ALEC working groups, research memos and draft bills push [...]
The weeks have flown by and it seems crazy that we now find ourselves in week 7 of the internship. Eastern North Carolina has surely kept us busy. Our work week this week started with a block party on Sunday hosted by the SCLC. We set up a table to do voter registration at this [...]
Join Democracy North Carolina and others on Wednesday, July 13, in Raleigh at the Respect Our Vote Rally. Good speakers, good friends, good cause, and a good time to say No to partisan attacks on your voting rights. In addition to scheming to override Gov. Perdue’s veto of the photo ID bill, conservative lawmakers will [...]
In contrast to incentives for small donors (per Wednesday’s Link of the Day), the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision encourages limitless donations by corporations (and unions) for so-called independent expenditures. Texas Gov. Rick Perry is the latest candidate to benefit from this subterfuge, with the creation of a super PAC called “Americans for Rick Perry” that [...]