Posts by Democracy Summer interns and others.
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 [...]
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 [...]
To start off our busy week we met at Amalie’s French Bakery. It was to be a day of listening and recording information from the community to Lieutenant Governor, Walter Dalton. We first arrived there at 1pm and began to organize tasks to complete for the week because we were to begin the meeting at [...]
With the impending doom of what could happen with SB-47, I find it important to reflect back to July 1st, 1971. This coming Saturday will be the 40th anniversary of the 26th Amendment being passed, which changed the legal voting age to be 18, instead of 21 (which it had been previously). Now, young teens [...]
Today, on this bright and sunny Friday morning we found ourselves entering the lavish Levin Museum uptown for a Democratic Party forum. After our filling our stomachs with a delicious lunch, we opened our ears to an enlightening speech by Chris Fitzsimon regarding various appalling bills in the general assembly currently. He began by updating [...]
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, [...]
As we begin our fourth week as Democracy NC Summer interns, it is important for us to reflect on all that we have accomplished. I think it is safe to say that this program/organization/internship has given all of us an opportunity to create social change that we might not have been able to achieve otherwise. [...]