This past few days has been busy but full of excitement. Last weekend we held our Pathways to Power training in Rocky Mount, and that event was wonderful! We were able to get plans together to start a Democracy Rocky Mount and discussed trying to get the citizens out to their local Board of Election [...]
A busy week thus far, here at Democracy Greenville/Durham! We’ve had a couple of eleven hour days this week, between phonebanking and a trek out east to Greenville and Rocky Mount. Monday’s phonebanking session went well; Killian’s friend Kimberley dropped by to give us a hand and we were able to make over 100 calls [...]
Our third week started off pretty strong and only looking to get stronger as the week goes on. Phone Banking has become a wonderful experience especially since we are able to transfer people directly to Berger’s line and hear them express their support for the HAVA funds! We have noticed that people are more likely [...]
Killian and I have been off to a busy start in our first week and a half as Democracy Summer interns. Last week we got started by calling and recruiting folks in the eastern part of the state to be Democracy NC "Souls to the Polls" ambassadors and getting ready with the presentations that we’ll [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This week has definitely been one for the books!!!! We’ve been tabling, phone banking, writing letters to the editor, researching, base building, and even some picketing. Our week began on Saturday. We tabled at an event in Ayden, North Carolina to try to get residents up-to-date with the Voter Photo ID bill and also to [...]
Here in Greenville we have been so busy, and for the first time this week Jasmine and I spent some time “flying solo”. On Wednesday, we went on Minority Voice, a cable access program on Cable 7, and talked about the Photo ID bill and redistricting. The Minority Voice interview was our first TV appearance, [...]
We are in week four and we have been busy busy busy. On Saturday we were stationed in both Wilson and Greenville doing voter registration and speaking on our work as a part of Democracy North Carolina. Monday was set aside as an administrative day but on Tuesday we were back on the road again. [...]