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Welcome to Democracy North Carolina’s staff blog. If you’d like to know more about what it’s like to fight on the frontline of democracy, check out our posts below. Click here to automatically subscribe to our staff blog feed via email or many other delivery options.

A Film Uncovering the Hidden: “Inside Job”

“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 [...]

By | 2017-01-03T12:05:35-05:00 July 20th, 2011|Charlotte, Democracy Summer, Democracy Summer 2011, Money in Politics, Tales From The Frontline|0 Comments
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Rally of Raleigh

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 [...]

By | 2011-07-15T11:26:11-04:00 July 15th, 2011|Charlotte, Democracy Summer, Democracy Summer 2011, Tales From The Frontline, Voting Rights|4 Comments
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Tour Stop Number 2!

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 [...]

By | 2017-01-03T12:05:36-05:00 June 30th, 2011|Charlotte, Democracy Summer, Democracy Summer 2011, Tales From The Frontline, Uncategorized|1 Comment
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Is that a Politician in Your Pocket??

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 [...]

By | 2017-01-03T12:05:36-05:00 June 30th, 2011|Citizens United Case, Democracy Summer, Democracy Summer 2011, Greenville, Money in Politics, Pay to Play, Tales From The Frontline, Voter-Owned Elections|1 Comment
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A Prediction of Hope…

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 [...]

By | 2017-01-03T12:05:36-05:00 June 28th, 2011|Charlotte, Democracy Summer, Democracy Summer 2011, Tales From The Frontline, Uncategorized|1 Comment
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July 1st

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 [...]

By | 2017-01-03T12:05:36-05:00 June 27th, 2011|Democracy Summer, Democracy Summer 2011, Greensboro, Tales From The Frontline, Winston-Salem|1 Comment
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A Few Words of Wisdom…

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 [...]

By | 2017-01-03T12:05:36-05:00 June 24th, 2011|Charlotte, Democracy Summer, Democracy Summer 2011, Tales From The Frontline|4 Comments
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