Tales From The Frontline – Page 12 – Democracy North Carolina

The Great Adventures of The Charlotte Team..

This week in Charlotte… It’s been another eventful week! Monday started off with scrupulous amounts of planning for meetings that were to be held in the upcoming days. In the evening, we also met with Mary Klenz from Legal Women Voters along with Advocate Tom Bowers, in order to discuss the details of our scheduled [...]

By gabe@democracy-nc.org| 2017-01-03T12:05:39-05:00 June 13th, 2011|Charlotte, Democracy Summer, Democracy Summer 2011, Get Out the Vote, Tales From The Frontline, Voting Rights|0 Comments

Don’t be so Delicate

This week has been full of traveling but what a great experience it was. We began our journey in Elizabeth City on Tuesday. We started by passing out “Respect our Vote” flyers at community shelters and food banks in the area since HB 351 would affect low income, low wealth, and displaced residents in large [...]

By gabe@democracy-nc.org| 2011-06-10T14:17:30-04:00 June 10th, 2011|Democracy Summer, Democracy Summer 2011, Greenville, Tales From The Frontline|0 Comments

An Impromptu with Governor Perdue

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. [...]

By gabe@democracy-nc.org| 2017-01-03T12:05:39-05:00 June 8th, 2011|Democracy Summer, Democracy Summer 2011, Greenville, Tales From The Frontline|4 Comments

Making a difference, one person at a time.

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 [...]

By gabe@democracy-nc.org| 2017-01-03T12:05:39-05:00 June 7th, 2011|Tales From The Frontline, Winston-Salem|1 Comment

…This Week In Charlotte…

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. [...]

By gabe@democracy-nc.org| 2011-06-03T14:23:34-04:00 June 3rd, 2011|Charlotte, Democracy Summer, Democracy Summer 2011, Tales From The Frontline|5 Comments

You can GOOGLE us

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. [...]

By gabe@democracy-nc.org| 2017-01-03T12:05:39-05:00 June 3rd, 2011|Democracy Summer, Democracy Summer 2011, Greenville, Redistricting, Tales From The Frontline, Voting Rights|2 Comments

It all starts with the youth

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 [...]

By gabe@democracy-nc.org| 2017-01-03T12:05:39-05:00 June 3rd, 2011|Democracy Summer, Democracy Summer 2011, Uncategorized, Winston-Salem|7 Comments

Are You Here For Class?

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, [...]

By gabe@democracy-nc.org| 2011-06-02T09:12:43-04:00 June 2nd, 2011|Democracy Summer, Democracy Summer 2011, Greenville, Tales From The Frontline|3 Comments

Follow us on twitter!

Team Charlotte has officially created their twitter account @dnCharlotte. We are on Team follow back because we want to know what you think!!!

By gabe@democracy-nc.org| 2011-06-01T15:31:09-04:00 June 1st, 2011|Charlotte, Democracy Summer, Democracy Summer 2011, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Hang the Net! …Winston-Salem

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 [...]

By gabe@democracy-nc.org| 2017-01-03T12:05:47-05:00 July 23rd, 2010|Civic Engagement, Democracy Summer, Democracy Summer 2010, Get Out the Vote, Tales From The Frontline, Winston-Salem, Youth Vote|1 Comment