Voter registration, supporting our North Carolina troops, meetings with religious and community leaders. Youth from the North Carolina Democratic Party will do all of this and more this weekend as they travel in their “Eastern Caravan.”
A group of a dozen or more youth are traveling in vans across Eastern North Carolina in order to canvass [...]
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NC Dem youth travel Eastern parts of state
Morning Wrap
Don’t forget! Matt on WUNC/NC Public Radio’s State of Things today from Noon to 1pm. Chapel Hill, Greensboro, Raleigh: 91.5 FM; Winston-Salem, 90.5 FM. Or live online feeds. Here’s more on all that goodness.
Danielle Smiley, the teen who showed great courage in standing up for herself and for her gay-straight alliance in Currituck County, NC, [...]
GLSEN praises NC student’s courage
The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), the leading national group for education and awareness on LGBT issues within education, released a statement on November 7, 2006 praising Currituck County, North Carolina, teenager Danielle Smiley and her courage in standing up for her gay-straight alliance.
The battle over the GSA at Currituck County High School [...]
Judge rules in NC ‘Day of Truth’ case
A federal judge has ruled that Sampson County, NC, Midway High school student Benjamin Arthurs has the legal right to distribute anti-gay “Day of Truth” materials on the LGBT harassment and school climate awareness day known as the Day of Silence.
Alliance Defense Fund sued the Sampson County School Board on behalf of Arthurs on the [...]
Bittersweet Victory: Currituck OKs gay-straight alliance with some new rules
Last night, Monday, the Currituck County (NC) Board of Education approved a students’ request to start a gay-straight alliance at Currituck County High School (src). News surfaced late in the weekend that the Board would be deciding on the request on Monday (see past stories on the GSA in Currituck).
The Board didn’t do it without [...]
Currituck School officials to decide on GSA
I’ve written a little about this before.
A very courageous Currituck County High School junior wanting to start a gay-straight alliance (GSA) may get her answer from the Currituck County Board of Education as soon as Monday, November 6th.
According to an article from the Virginian-Pilot, the Board of Education may hand down its answer at its [...]
