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WHAT WE DO
Beyond our weekly meetings, we advance the Democratic Party’s principles through campaigning, advocacy and more.
Advocate
- We organize and participate in progressive marches, rallies and more
- UNC Rally Against Gun Violence
- Public Education Rally with NC Representative Graig Meyer
- HKonJ Moral March in Raleigh
- Roy Cooper for NC Governor rooftop rally with Mipso
- Jon Osoff for Congress canvassing trip
- We contact our representatives about issues that matter
- Phone banks & letter-writing
- Gun reform phone bank & letter-writing campaign
- Vi Lyles for Charlotte Mayor phone bank
- Roy Cooper for NC Governor phone banks
- Protect DACA phone bank
- Reproductive Justice phone bank
- Annual fall break trip to visit our representatives’ Washington, DC offices to discuss higher education policy.
- We canvass for local, state and national campaigns
Get Out the Vote
- UNC YD plays an active role in getting out the vote on campus
- Voter registration drives
- Voting information events
- Donut Forget to Vote
- Popsicles and Primaries
- Rock the Vote
- Leading up to the 2016 general election, UNC YD worked with the NC Coordinated Campaign to register over 3,000 voters
Inform
- We host a range of speakers, panels and workshops throughout the year
- President Obama (on behalf of Clinton 2016)
- United States Congressman David Price
- Interfaith Panel on Religion in Politics and Social Justice
- A Conversation on Charlottesville and Silent Sam
- Chapel Hill Local Candidates Panel
- Reproductive Justice Panel
- Triangle Activist Workshop
- Running for Office Workshop
- Political Resume Workshop
- Poetry & Politics
Engage
- We foster collaboration, collective action and civil discourse
- Debate with UNC College Republicans
- UNC Combined Precinct Meetings with Orange County Democrats
- Volunteering with TABLE in Carrboro
- Community gardening at HOPE Gardens for Earth Day
- Free the Facts: Social Security event with UNC College Republicans
- We’ve joined nearby chapters of the College Democrats of America and represented students at the College Democrats of North Carolina Convention
- Several UNC YD members serve as officers for the College Democrats of NC.
Connect
- We host numerous social and campus outreach events throughout the year
- Autumn Potluck Picnic
- Networking Social with the Orange County Democratic Party
- Biden Time ‘Til the Holidays Social
- Movie and Pajama Night
- Date-A-Dem Cocktail Party
- Social with Duke Democrats
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