2021: A Year in Review

NC Council of Churches

Strength in Unity, Peace through Justice

Upcoming Legislative Days and a Revenue Plan

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Several additional legislative days have been announced. Among them are:

HKonJ, People of Color Justice and Unity Legislative Day is Wednesday, May 23. The opening session will be at Raleigh’s First Baptist Church on Wilmington Street at 9:00. The group will then march to the General Assembly Building, where there will be a press conference at 11:00, followed by legislative visitations. For more info, contact HKonJ at 919-682-4700.

The Duke Center for Child and Family Policy has scheduled the NC Family Impact Seminar 2012 on Thursday, May 24, from 8:00 until 11:00 at the Legislative Auditorium in the General Assembly Building. For more information or to register, click here.

The NC Center for Voter Education and NC Coalition for Lobbying and Government Reform have scheduled Redistricting Reform Lobby Day for Tuesday, May 29 at the General Assembly starting at 9:15. More information will be available soon by clicking here.

Also, Together NC, a coalition of more than 120 groups, including the NC Council of Churches, today announced North Carolina’s Worth It, a revenue plan for the legislative session starting this week. For details of the plan, click here. For a report from NC Policy Watch, complete with photographic evidence that I was at the press conference, click here.

— George Reed, Executive Director

About Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director

Aleta Payne first joined the Council staff in the spring of 2001 as the Communications Associate. She continues to oversee that work along with development, represents the Council in several partnership efforts, and serves in other administrative roles, as well. Aleta is a graduate of the University of Virginia with a degree in government and foreign affairs and spent much of her early career as a journalist. She has three young adult sons who continue to come home to Cary for dinner, or at least groceries, and two young adult terrier-mix dogs who keep the nest from feeling too empty.

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