Posts by Democracy Summer interns and others.
Monday was not the typical boring first day of the work week that everyone expects. Around lunch time we received a phone call that Governor Beverly Perdue would be in Greenville meeting with a small number of members from the Eastern North Carolina Civic Group. This was an opportunity that we could not give up. [...]
Thursday, June 2nd, Khadijah and I got a chance to speak to some senior citizens at Independent Living Center off of Akron Drive in Winston. The citizens that attended expressed a lot of concern about the new legislation being introduced. They also expressed other fears, such as community centers not getting the necessary funding, less [...]
This week in Charlotte… We’ve had quite a busy week, but a fairly exciting one as well. It seems as if this week has passed within a blink of an eye, yet we have already gained many valuable contacts and experiences. To begin with, our first day started with a speaking engagement at 8:30 AM. [...]
This week one of our main goals was to get on the local radio station WOOW am 1340. Broadcasting starts at 8 am and we of course had to be there early. Initially we were supposed to go on the air on Thursday but, like we were warned of, we ran into some pot holes. [...]
So far the internship has been a blur and pretty fast paced. Khadijah and I have been trying to find contacts, get organized, get numbers, set up events, all while preparing for speaking events and one-on-one meetings. Because our office is not equipped with internet service, making these conn Around lunch time on Wednesday we [...]
Our few days as Democracy NC interns have definitely been active, to say the least. Neither of us expected to be so busy within the first few days of the internship, but there has barely been a free moment since we walked into the office on Tuesday. Of course the first few moments involved logistics, [...]
Team Charlotte has officially created their twitter account @dnCharlotte. We are on Team follow back because we want to know what you think!!!
This week was all about some Youth Voter Pledge cards. We hit the ground running on Monday and Tuesday by going to local recreation centers and talking to kids about voting. We were looking especially for high school students but when the "big kids" started signing the cards all the little ones wanted [...]
Shock, awe and amazement. These three little words are the best ways to describe the reaction we get from Fayetteville's citizens whenever we invite them to our neutral, informal City Council/ County Commissioner Meet and Greet. People, including some of the city council members and the county commissioners that have invited to the event, are [...]
Another busy week has flown by, and it’s incredible that there are only two weeks remaining in our Democracy Summer experience. We had some great events occur this week which will go a long way to help our strategies for increased voter participation, youth civic engagement, and electoral reforms. On Monday we traveled [...]