PAST EVENTS

 

Recent featured events: 

• Youth Advocacy Summit, May 2019: advocacy training session with youth from all over North Carolina attending.

• InterAct Art Auction, April 2019: art auction held at Cary Academy which raised over $2000!

• Trapped film screening, January 2019: film screening held at Beth Meyer Synagogue, in collaboration with NARAL-NC.

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• Attending Climate Reality Project Training in Atlanta, Georgia with two full scholarships secured in conjunction with NC Poor People's Campaign. A leader of TPP spoke during panelist session with Al Gore.

• Awarded $1000 grant from The Pollination Project to pursue environmental justice 

• Advocating in front of Raleigh City Council, Apex City Council, and Pittsboro City Council for NYC-based environmental justice bills (Intro 886 and Intro 359)

• Coordinating Raleigh's Youth v. Gov Rally in honor of the Supreme Court Case Juliana vs. US ​

• We recently joined the NC CJJ coalition — a consortium of environmental justice groups statewide sponsored by the People's Climate Movement to unite the intersectional environmental justice movement 

• Cash Bail Reform Movie Night with over 90 attendees; panelists including Joe Killian from NC Policy Watch, State Sen. Mike Woodard, Judge Fred Battaglia, Attorney David Hall, Sarah Gillooly from ACLU-NC, Lawrence Carpenter from Inmates to Entrepreneurs

• Voter Registration Drive at Enloe, Northwood, Cary Academy, Millbrook, and Raleigh Charter; registered & pre-registered over 290 voters

• Raleigh City Council Advocacy Work for ACLU Freedom City Model Policies 7, 8, and 9; propositions considered by the Raleigh City Attorney

• Voter Registration drives at Raleigh Charter, Holly Springs High School (in conjunction with MFOL Raleigh), and Cary Academy  

•  2018 Atlantic Coast Pipeline Rally/Advocacy Day at Bicentennial Mall to support the Youth vs. Gov supreme court case