Tales From The Frontline – Page 18 – Democracy North Carolina

Frustrations….

Well, I tell you, this week has been extremely hard on all of us (especially Shae and I, because we are the interns). I truly believe that our office is cursed, it looks descent when you are there for a couple of minutes. Soon after the internet goes out and does not want to come [...]

By gabe@democracy-nc.org| 2009-06-09T17:35:16-04:00 June 9th, 2009|Democracy Summer 2009, Greensboro, Uncategorized|0 Comments

PITTing for justice

Week 1: I cannot believe how quickly our first week went by! What with the process of moving to Greenville for the summer and starting work, I can definitely say my week has not been dull. Brittany, Tia and I started out the week with a lot of little administrative things. It DROVE us all [...]

By Adam| 2009-06-05T13:55:37-04:00 June 5th, 2009|Greenville|0 Comments

Mom Jeans and Misconceptions

No air condition, ACORN showing on caller ids, my citizenship being questioned. Needless to say this has been an interesting start to Democracy Summer. Being a part of the AMAZING QC team, we had to set up shop in the ACORN office. The first day, Sarah and I arrived within 10 minutes of each other [...]

By gabe@democracy-nc.org| 2017-01-03T12:05:52-05:00 June 4th, 2009|Charlotte, Democracy Summer 2009|1 Comment

Airless and ACORN Affiliated

Air conditioner-less and ACORN-enhanced, the Charlotte week kicked off to a phenomenal start. Early Monday morning, America and I arrived …to the parking lot. At the time, we had no keys, thus no way into the building, which we share with ACORN…but more on that later. However, we set our goals and discussed future plans [...]

By gabe@democracy-nc.org| 2017-01-03T12:05:52-05:00 June 4th, 2009|Charlotte, Democracy Summer 2009|0 Comments

Off the Hook

At the home office in Durham last night we had our first evening of phone banking. Cristina and Brian did a rock star job reaching out to supporters we haven't heard from in a while to see if they are still interested in election reform. Overall, responses from our long lost friends were pretty positive [...]

By Jenn| 2017-01-03T12:05:53-05:00 June 4th, 2009|Democracy Summer 2009, Durham|0 Comments

First thoughts…

DURHAM: As I drove to the Democracy NC office on my first official day as an intern, I couldn’t help but wonder what I would do for the next eight hours. Eight hours is a pretty long time! Would I have enough things to do during that time? My last full-time job consisted of me [...]

By gabe@democracy-nc.org| 2017-01-03T12:05:53-05:00 June 3rd, 2009|Democracy Summer 2009, Durham|0 Comments

Training Camp at Chestnut Ridge

Initially, I was really apprehensive about the retreat experience. It was a mixture of nervousness and excitement as I wondered who I would meet and whether or not my fellow Dem NC team members would embrace me. Now mind you, I am by no means a outdoors person and the whole thought of camping at [...]

By gabe@democracy-nc.org| 2017-01-03T12:05:53-05:00 June 2nd, 2009|Democracy Summer 2009, Greenville|0 Comments

Day Three: Leaving the Nest

After nearly three days together, the Democracy Summer 2009 class is really coming together as a team. This was evident in Friday’s team-building exercises and the Family Feud style game show interns played at the retreat’s end to test their knowledge of what they had learned. Before that, however, Friday was full of more background [...]

By gabe@democracy-nc.org| 2017-01-03T12:05:53-05:00 June 1st, 2009|Democracy Summer 2009|1 Comment

Day Two: Digging Deeper

Day Two of our Democracy Summer retreat was a long day of learning more about the fundamentals of what we do, the nuances of communicating our mission to the public and more. The day included training in such areas as phone banking, coalition building, conducting one-on-one meetings and understanding our nonpartisan focus. Student organizers also [...]

By gabe@democracy-nc.org| 2017-01-03T12:05:53-05:00 May 29th, 2009|Democracy Summer 2009|0 Comments

Day One: Training

Democracy Summer officially began on Wednesday, May 27th when ten outstanding college students chosen from colleges across North Carolina arrived at Chestnut Ridge Camp & Retreat Center near Efland for a 3-day training retreat with Democracy North Carolina staff. By 10:00 AM, with everyone unpacked and moved into their cabins, student organizers introduced [...]

By gabe@democracy-nc.org| 2017-01-03T12:05:53-05:00 May 28th, 2009|Democracy Summer 2009|1 Comment