Archive for the “Democracy Summer 2010” Category

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 to do [...]

Shock, awe and amazement. These three little words are the best ways to describe the reaction we get from Fayetteville’s citizens whenever we invite them to our neutral, informal City Council/ County Commissioner Meet and Greet. People, including some of the city council members and the county commissioners that have invited to the event, are [...]

Another busy week has flown by, and it’s incredible that there are only two weeks remaining in our Democracy Summer experience. We had some great events occur this week which will go a long way to help our strategies for increased voter participation, youth civic engagement, and electoral reforms. On Monday we traveled a few [...]

Time is really flying.  I looked at the calender today and said, “WHOA”.  I’m pretty sure all the other interns feel the same way.  Who knew theses days would pass by so fast?! Jenn and I went to a Drinking Liberally book club meeting at the Traction house last week.  That was great.  The people [...]

After a very nice long weekend it’s back to work here in G-vegas. This week we are focusing getting the word out about the coalition meeting in Washington on the 16th.  We are hoping for a great turnout. We are also working to increase the youth GOTV pledges. The summer is flying past and I [...]

After a much deserved vacation, Joyce and I regrouped to brainstorm over ways to engage the community in our last couple of weeks. We struck gold last week with our Pitt County Coalition meeting where Dr.Powers ( the best Sociology professor) was able to link us with the Interfaith Alliance director to get more faith centers involved [...]

This week, despite being shortened due to the Independence Day Holiday, has been jam-packed with activities. Ray and I settled back into our office on Tuesday and began implementing our plans for our many events coming up this month. On Wednesday we had some meetings with community activists in both Forsyth and Guilford Counties, and [...]

This week Alannah, Robert, and I are going to college freshmen orientations to register the incoming freshmen to vote. Hopefully we’ll be able to pull these excited students into the trend that we’re trying to create for the Charlotte college community. Tomorrow kicks off our 2nd month with Homeland Security. I feel like we’re a big [...]

We’re famous! Actually, not really, we were just featured in the Sunday edition of the Washington Daily News. We shared our input of the organization and why we are so active in politics. After our interview the reporter showed us around the newspaper, which is ancient. He showed us where the original papers were printed [...]

After last week’s disappointing results in the NC Senate, we got back to work this week on Voter-Owned Elections and other initiatives like felon re-enfranchisement and youth voter education. In some good news, the NC House is currently considering expanding public financing to the statewide Treasurer’s race and allowing an additional municipality to implement their [...]