Community Organizing
An event for parents and high school youth to share stories about our schools with a professional organizer. This will inform our education agenda for Orange County Justice United going forward.
- Bring your concerns about Chapel Hill-Carrboro Public Schools
- Bring your ideas for change
- Bring your commitment to organize for change
- Bring your friends!
For more information and transportation needs, please call Tish Galu • 919.960.4437 • galu@bellsouth.net
Date:
Sunday, November 8, 2009 - 10:30am to 12:00pm
Location:
HARGRAVES CENTER, 216 N. ROBERSON STREET, CHAPEL HILL
After building
relationships across faith, ethic background and economic status for
almost three years, J.U.I.C.E. is ready to become a permanent
organization. Leaders of the Committee have been patiently putting
together the building blocks of collective power. They focused
on recruiting institutions, raising their own money, traininghundreds
of leaders, identifying priorities and developing a collective agenda.
The committee will become
a permanent organization at a Founding Ceremony scheduled for the night
of Monday October 26, 2009. Hundreds of leaders from across the County
have pledged to gather to officially launch the organization. The
Founding Ceremony will coincide with an important election time in our
County. All candidates seeking public office in the area will be
invited to attend.Our organization never endorses any of
the candidates, but we always ask the candidates to publicly endorse
our community agenda.
Founding Ceremony:
- Monday October 26, 2009 at 7:00 PM. United Church of Chapel Hill
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The Founding is a celebration of our collective commitment for Justice.
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The organization will be
launched by those that want to be Founding Members. Those that have
completed training will be recognized, and we will unveil our new name
and agenda.
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Those seeking elected office will be invited to endorse or speak against our agenda
Date:
Monday, October 26, 2009 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Location:
United Church of Chapel Hill
I apologize for my long absence.
Here is an update on what is happening locally, post-Obama campaign, among the folks who want to keep the spirit alive and help make change happen!
Last Sunday, there were three "House Parties" held around the County. One in Carrboro, another in North Carrboro and a third in Hillsborough. (I don't know the total attendance, I was at N. Carrboro and we must have had two dozen or more people.)
When we started, before Thanksgiving, we were sort of groping in the dark for how we were going to organize. It has begun to galvanize, but we are still dealing with communication issues, like too many emails about too many subjects! It reminds me of the early days of the Primary, which is a good thing.
Here are the three major things that are happening right now:
From OCOC press release as printed in News of Orange County:
County-wide grassroots effort will hold Dec. 7
meeting
On Sunday, Dec. 7, 300 leaders from 23 faith-based
institutions in Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough will gather at 5 p.m. at
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Chapel Hill to launch a new agenda called "One
County for All." The Church is located at 300 E. Rosemary Street in Chapel
Hill.
The event is viewed as a new model for multi-ethnic interfaith
collaboration in Orange County. The Orange County Organizing Committee (OCOC)
seeks to bring about change on affordable housing, living wages, environmental
justice, education, healthcare, and quality of life for immigrant families.
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