Tales From The Frontline – Page 7 – Democracy North Carolina

Raising Voter Turnout in Cumberland County

Greetings all. My efforts to raise voter turnout all across the southeastern region have been dynamic, creative, and borderline exhaustive. I've done my share of speaking at engagements and canvasing the general public as they go about their day to day lives. Well, Tuesday was when the rubber met the road: Election Day. I guess [...]

By Fayetteville Team| 2017-01-03T12:05:27-05:00 July 18th, 2012|Democracy Summer, Democracy Summer 2012, Fayetteville, Tales From The Frontline|0 Comments

Some Good Things Come to an End, but Greater Things Arise

As we have reached the home stretch of our Democracy Summer experience, there lingers this sense of “sadness” amidst the enthusiasm and excitement of each day. Now, I placed quotes around sadness because that doesn’t necessarily describe the mood in the air, but it was the closest way to describe the daily joy felt with [...]

By Charlotte Team| 2017-01-03T12:05:27-05:00 July 17th, 2012|Charlotte, Democracy Summer, Democracy Summer 2012, Tales From The Frontline|0 Comments

“Street Theatre”

This week has been a continuation of some of the work that we had envisioned ourselves doing in the beginning: ending corporate personhood, organizing in colleges, and increasing voter engagement. We had our first kick-off event for our “We the People” Truth Tour titled “The Art of Democracy”, an event at central plaza downtown. Along [...]

By gabe@democracy-nc.org| 2017-01-03T12:05:27-05:00 July 13th, 2012|Democracy Summer, Democracy Summer 2012, Tales From The Frontline, Winston-Salem|0 Comments

The Start of a New Chapter

This week has started off with our regular routine of Phone Banking, but this time we were focusing on a different issue: Getting People out to Vote in the runoff election!!!! Our team focused on Henderson County. We made a number of phone calls to inform citizens about the upcoming election on July 17, 2012 [...]

By Greenville Team| 2012-07-12T13:11:34-04:00 July 12th, 2012|Democracy Summer, Democracy Summer 2012, Greenville|0 Comments

No Single Issue Movements

Our July 4th event will probably go down as one of the highlights of my summer. Offering a space where members of the community could share their voices and express themselves proved extremely powerful and productive. Art has the capacity to go so far beyond entertainment purposes—it is a tool, an asset to the movement [...]

By Charlotte Team| 2017-01-03T12:05:27-05:00 July 10th, 2012|Charlotte, Democracy Summer, Democracy Summer 2012, Tales From The Frontline|0 Comments

Achieving Our Country

Busy week of travel but interspersed with a couple days off, at least for those of us on the Greenville team. Killian and I made an unaccompanied trip out to Greenville this Saturday so as to give Jake some much-needed rest. Given the stultifying heat outside, we thought our luck was pretty good -- registering [...]

By Greenville Team| 2012-07-06T10:09:22-04:00 July 6th, 2012|Democracy Summer, Democracy Summer 2012, Greenville, Tales From The Frontline|1 Comment

Triumph Amidst Disappointment: Another Week in the DARK Purple State

Why oh why North Carolina? Why do you send me on this roller coaster of success and disappointment? What is the root of the oppressive conservatism we witnessed in recent days? Why do elected officials across the state and on both sides of the isle seem to simultaneously laud and laugh at the democratic process? [...]

By Fayetteville Team| 2017-01-03T12:05:27-05:00 July 5th, 2012|Democracy Summer, Democracy Summer 2012, Fayetteville, Tales From The Frontline|1 Comment

Faith and the Latino Community (part 2)

Click here to read part one. After an exhausting week of interviews, I found myself rising early Saturday morning to volunteer at the "Juneteenth" festival in Durham. Excited to have an opportunity to "Get Out the Vote," I set up my table four full hours before the festival started, hoping to catch people who were [...]

By gabe@democracy-nc.org| 2017-01-03T12:05:27-05:00 July 4th, 2012|Civic Engagement, Get Out the Vote, Tales From The Frontline|0 Comments

Showin’ Up in the Clutch

It’s the fourth quarter and the ball is in my team’s possession, we’re not down but the score is tied with a few seconds left. That is the view I have for the duration of the Democracy Summer Internship and it is up to the Charlotte team to show up in the clutch. This past [...]

By Charlotte Team| 2017-01-03T12:05:27-05:00 July 3rd, 2012|Charlotte, Democracy Summer, Democracy Summer 2012|1 Comment

Faith and the Latino Community (part 1)

Hello all! My name is Erin Sweeney and I am a student intern doing a summer research project for Democracy North Carolina. I’m working out of Democracy NC’s headquarters in Durham. It may surprise some of you that Democracy NC does not have a fulltime organizer for the Triangle; the main office serves more as [...]

By gabe@democracy-nc.org| 2017-01-03T12:05:27-05:00 July 2nd, 2012|Civic Engagement, Get Out the Vote, Tales From The Frontline|0 Comments