Join us on September 10th for a Legislative Review and "The State of Voting Restrictions"

Durham’s legislative delegation will report on the damage done this legislative session and where we go from here.

Democracy NC will dive deep into the voter suppression bill and review new voting restrictions and requirements.

Click here to RSVP on Facebook!

13 Rallies across the state in each Congressional District. Ride the bus from Durham to the Chapel Hill Rally!

Meet at the Durham Farmer’s Market (501 Foster St.)Be there by 4:30, bus leaves at 4:45 p.m.

 

Click here for event flyer!

District 4 - Chapel Hill Peace & Justice Plaza 179 E. Franklin St. Chapel Hill, NC https://www.facebook.com/events/139042092973213/

 

Watch this powerful episode of the Rachel Maddow show featuring North Carolina. A must watch! 

Watch this video - a call for all teachers and parents to STAND UP for education at this final Moral Monday protest. Be there on July 29th!

Meet at the Durham Farmer’s Market (501 Foster St.)Be there by 3:45, bus leaves at 4 p.m.!

 

Watch this powerful video from July 22nd about the attacks on voting rights!

FORWARD TOGETHER, NOT ONE STEP BACK! 

5:00 PM Rally at Halifax Mall behind NC General Assembly

 

Join People’s Alliance for a documentary, discussion, and fundraiser. "Unconditional" features Sara Terry (current PA Co-President) and Julie Edmunds and their struggle to secure legal rights to their children. The film was shot during the 2012 campaign.

Followed by a panel discussion with the filmmakers, Kelly McKenna, Hanna Teachey and Rhonda Chan Soo, Sara Terry & Julie Edmunds, and Chris Brook, Legal Director of the NC ACLU. Chris Brook will discuss the latest developments in Fisher Borne v. Smith, the ACLU’s ongoing legal challenge to North Carolina’s ban on second parent adoptions and marriage for same sex couples, brought on behalf of six same-sex couples from across the state and their children.

Tuesday, August 6th at 6:30 p.m. 

Motorco Music Hall, 723 Rigsbee Ave. 

 

 

NO TICKETS REQUIRED! Money raised online and AT THE DOOR (you can register and wait to donate at the event) will support technical work such as sound and color correction, as well as entrance fees and expenses associated with film festival entry. If enough money is raised, the film makers plan to develop an education kit to accompany film showings.

Suggested Donation: $10 (more if you can, less if you can't!)

Presently, in North Carolina, families are being denied equal rights.

In 2012, a CNN poll showed that 60% of persons questioned reported having a family member or close friend who identified with being gay or lesbian. Attitudes towards homosexuality are changing. Yet, despite changing attitudes, state laws have failed to follow suit.

The documentary film, Unconditional, aims to raise awareness of the ways that current North Carolina laws harm the children and parents in same-sex families. While there are many films being made on gay rights, Unconditional is unique for several reasons.

First, the film focuses on a smaller issue within the larger issue of gay rights. We are focusing on parental rights, specifically the state’s second-parent adoption statute. A second-parent adoption in North Carolina would allow the non-biological parent to obtain legal ties to their children without the biological parent giving up his or her legal rights.

Second, we have unique access to key figures in the North Carolina movement to secure rights for same-sex parents. Our film’s characters, Sara and Julie, were the first couple in North Carolina to obtain a second-parent adoption in 2004. The film will show what they went through to get the adoption and will follow what they are doing to secure legal ties to their children after the North Carolina Supreme Court overturned second-parent adoptions in 2010.

The story of our other character in the film, “Catherine”, illustrates a very real, and worst-case scenario for same-sex parents. When Catherine’s partner moved out, she took their kids with her. ”Catherine” had no rights to see her children because she was not considered a legal parent. We will learn of her struggle to see her kids again.

Journey with us to learn more about the issues surrounding parental rights, to see how these families struggle with a lack of legal protection. See them rise up and fight to acquire these protections.

http://unconditionalmovie.wordpress.com/about/

PLEASE REGISTER BELOW TO LET US KNOW YOU ARE COMING!

Donations can be made AT THE DOOR or online. 

Then share with your friends!

 

In light of today's Supreme Court ruling, we need to be even more active in getting folks registered, educated and participating in our democracy!
The Durham Branch of the NAACP is sponsoring a non-partisan voter registration drive this Saturday, June 29th.

Participants are asked to meet at 9AM at Covenant Presbyterian Church at 2620 East Weaver Street. At that time we will complete a very brief training and then fan out across Durham to predetermined locations to register voters. Participants will then return to Covenant Presbyterian Church between 12 Noon and 1PM. Cold water and all necessary supplies will be provided.

All are welcome to join in this important exercise in local democracy. Co-sponsorship offers from other non-partisan organizations are warmly encouraged.

 

ALSO - Please sign up for a phone bank! They are happening across North Carolina!

PHONE BANKS TO PROTECT VOTING RIGHTS ACROSS NC

CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP TO PHONE BANK!!

PA COORDINATOR POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT

 

The Durham People’s Alliance, Durham’s home of progressive community action, is searching for enthusiastic progressive candidates who want to work for social change in the Bull City!   The position requires 20+ hours of work per week, with potential to grow.  Candidates should have excellent administrative and organizational skills, proven communication abilities and a passion for social justice and progressive political ideas locally, regionally, and state-wide.  The duties of the staff position include:

 

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  Manage a range of organizational and membership development activities including:
  
  
  
  •  Coordination of membership renewals and new member recruiting;
  
  
  • Maintaining the member database and effectively using it to target communications and identify members’ areas of interest;
  
  
  • Fundraising, including a range of member and community events
  
  
  • Managing financial integrity, including general bookkeeping, preparing annual budget, and tracking budget progress, and paying bills;
  
  
  • Working with the Coordinating Committee to set meeting agendas;
  
  
  • Serve as initial point of contact for members, orient new members to the organization and help connect members who have mutual areas of interest; and
  
  
  • Help maintain the PA website, work with members to provide content for the website and otherwise identify other means of promoting PA’s mission and work to the broader community.
  
  
  
  


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  Communicate effectively with members and the public by:
  
  
  
  • Producing hardcopy and e-newsletters and other materials to keep members informed of and engaged in PA activities.  ;
  
  
  • Maintain a consistent and effective presence on PA’s social media sites, such as Facebook and Twitter;
  
  
  • Ensuring an effective flow of information between members, the community and the Coordinating Committee.
  
  
  
  


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  Organize PA’s members and Durham’s broader community on priority progressive issues by:
  
  
  
  • Building and maintaining relationships with community partners and allies;
  
  
  • Helping to organize and implement a variety of community outreach events;
  
  
  • Motivating and coordinate member volunteers to act in support of PA priorities.
  
  
  
  

 

In your cover letter or resume please describe:

• Experience in the performing the duties listed above


• Experience or interest in progressive organizing


• Experience in basic computer skills:  word processing; databases; Publisher; spreadsheets.


• Experience as an organizer, including experience using social media to organize

 

 

People’s Alliance is looking for a multi-year commitment.  Salary and benefit information is available upon request.  The PA bylaws, mission statement and other information about the organization are available at www.durhampa.org.  Please send a resume including references, a writing sample and a cover letter that includes a discussion of the issue about which you are most passionate.  Send to Kate Fellman at [email protected].

 

Application deadline:              July 5, 2013

Today a bill, SB 315, was filed by Representative Tim Moore from Cleveland County. This bill would force the city of Durham to extend utilities to the 751 South development. Just last week the Durham City Council voted not to extend these utilities, but back-room deals have been going on in the past week. Senator Floyd McKissick, who valiantly turned back a similar effort last year, now has thrown his lot in with Representative Moore in an unprecedented usurpation of local control.

This bill comes up for a vote this week, and we need to act now to stop it!

[email protected],  919-733-5872

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[email protected], 919-715-3019 

 

Durham citizens have stood strong in opposition to this development and developers tactics for YEARS.

We need our Delegation to stand up for us NOW!

We have been able to keep 751 South development at bay for years now, but all may be lost in one vote.

On June 3, next Monday, the Durham City Council will vote on whether to annex and supply utilities to 751 South.

If we lose, the fight will over and the bulldozers will move in.

We need 4 NO votes.

Please take the time TODAY to email the Mayor and Council urging them to vote NO.

[email protected]

This document shows  the impact of the 751 South Development.

Join PA and the NC Justice Center at Motorco on June 4th for a screening of "American Winter."

 

AMERICAN WINTER is a documentary feature film that follows the personal stories of eight families struggling in the wake of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. The film presents an intimate snapshot of the state of the economy as it is playing out in the lives of American families, and highlights the human impact of budget cuts to social services, a shrinking middle class, and the fracturing of the American Dream.

 

REGISTER HERE!

 

American Winter

Tuesday, June 4th. 

Motorco Music Hall, 723 Rigsbee Ave.

Doors Open 6:15 p.m. 

 

See our flyer, suggested donation $10 

Join us May 7th, 6:30 p.m. at St. Philip's Church for our next PA Membership Meeting.

You spoke to us about your priorities, now it’s time to act.  PA leaders will talk about our highest priorities and provide members with specific actions you can take now to move our progressive agenda forward. RSVP on Facebook Event Here.