As we finish up our last week of being interns for Democracy North Carolina and Democracy Summer wraps, we can’t help but feel a sense of nostalgia. Coming into this internship, we were so ignorant. So unaware. We were energetic and full of pre-determined ideas but boy did that first day prove us wrong. The [...]
Holiday is Over Despite taking a little time off for the July 4th holiday, we came back energized and ready to go, getting a lot accomplished even with two shortened weeks. We spent a significant amount of time at the Green Bean Coffeehouse meeting with people and we were able to get a lot accomplished. [...]
The Ride to Raleigh to Rally On July 13, 2011, two vans from the Triad loaded up to attend the “Respect Our Vote, Protect Our Vote Rally” at the General Assembly to help prevent a devastating change to our voting rights. On this day they were expected to make a decision on HB-351, which is [...]
Once again our week started with our weekend =). We attended another block party which had a great turnout. The people that attended were really interested in our work, and what Democracy NC does. We even managed to get a few people registered to vote! Even though we are quickly approaching the end of Democracy [...]
It’s the second to last week of Democracy Summer and it has been busy as ever. We began the week with our follow-up election reform meeting in Ashville on Saturday, the 16th. That turnout was about as rich as the one at our screening on the previous day. Again, thank you to our director, Adam [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This week Jasmine and I have been working on writing letters to the editor in opposition to the Photo ID bill and SB 47, and we have been trying to get others to do the same. Unfortunately, this process has not been the easiest. When we first started this internship we were told that we [...]
From long phone banking sittings to travelling the west side of North Carolina was what we made our business and we absolutely beheld every moment of it with style. We had the opportunity to phone bank twice, attended a meeting with the Lieutenant Governor, made an appearance at the Homeless Helping Homeless fundraising event and [...]