It’s the second to last week of Democracy Summer and it has been busy as ever. We began the week with our follow-up election reform meeting in Ashville on Saturday, the 16th. That turnout was about as rich as the one at our screening on the previous day. Again, thank you to our director, Adam Sotak who also joined us and to all who were present.
Monday bared face to our week’s plans as usual which consisted of: the redistricting meeting we had later that day, Tuesday’s rally for Erick Velasquillo and our Mecklenburg county research project, Wednesday’s League of Women Voters homeland security volunteering session and a visit to Shelby for our 4th tour stop, Thursday’s Buncombe county research project in addition to phone banking and Friday’s voter registration sitting. So far, we have completed all we planned to accomplish and are now awaiting a voter registration drive planned for this Saturday.
This summer has been work in it’s self but we will not fail to mention that it would not be as an amazing experience as it has been without our awesome Organizer, Robert Dawkins. He has clearly been goal-oriented and self-motivated to a level that would make us want to work and we loved it all! We are sitting once again in this office, preparing for another assignment, forcing the ‘end of the internship’ idea out of our heads and still thinking about the work coming up in our last week. If we haven’t learned anything from Robert, we have defiantly learned this: “It is always about a fight for our rights and it always will be from the beginning to the end.”
Maiysa Mesbah & Joyce Lutu
You two are awesome, too! Thanks for your hard work and dedication. I’m looking forward to your wrap up presentation next Friday. Onward!