New Durham Democrats

Voting on all warrant articles will be held on Tuesday, March 13, 2018, from 8am to 7pm, in the New Durham School gymnasium, located at 7 Old Bay Road in New Durham, NH, where there will be voting by official ballot for the election of Town Officers and all Warrant Articles with any amendments as made at the Deliberative Session.

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Also, the New Durham Democratic Committee will be having a meeting on Monday, February 12, 2018, at 7pm, at Miller Farm. Bring a snack to share and and issues or ideas you would like to discuss.

Update:



Our next scheduled meeting will be on February 9th, at 7:00 PM in Milton at the Emma Ramsey Center. Our speaker will be Olivia Zink, from Open Democracy. She will speak about voting rights and campaign finance reform.

About Open Democracy:

Founded in 2009 by renowned reformer Doris “Granny D” Haddock (1910-2010), Open Democracy is leading the New Hampshire movement to strengthen democracy and stop the corrupting influence of special interest money in politics. Over the past five years, we have educated and engaged thousands of New Hampshire citizens through nonpartisan grassroots campaigns, film and theatrical events, a national speaker series, research and publications, and local and state advocacy initiatives. In 2014, we partnered with citizens in 52 New Hampshire towns to pass warrant articles calling for an end to corporate and union spending in political campaigns under Citizens United.

We will have a guest speaker at our January 14th meeting.
Kristy Martino, U.S. Poverty Grassroots Organizer from RESULTS, will describe her group’s work to train volunteers to advocate for education, health, and economic opportunity by influencing policy makers.  RESULTS can provide training and research for action.

RESULTS Mission and Vision
Volunteer profiles and how we train and support them to become effective advocates
Our RESULTS (key success in making tax credits for working families permanent this year)
Special projects: REAL Change youth fellowship and Experts on Poverty
Seacoast and NH/ME RESULTS chapters

RESULTS is a movement of passionate, committed everyday people. Together they use their voices to influence political decisions that will bring an end to poverty.
Volunteers receive training, support, and inspiration to become skilled advocates. In time, volunteers learn to effectively advise policy makers, guiding them towards decisions that improve access to education, health, and economic opportunity.

With every hour of their time, volunteers multiply their impact through the enormous power of advocacy — whether it’s helping change policy to support millions of families putting food on the table or helping raise billions of dollars for the world’s most vulnerable children.

Backed by the in-depth research and legislative expertise of staff, RESULTS advocates realize the incredible power they possess to use their voices to change the world.

RESULTS Educational Fund, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that:

• Performs cutting-edge research and oversight.
• Educates and mobilizes the public, policy makers, and the media.
• Supports powerful citizenship by training volunteers in public speaking, generating media, and educating their communities and elected officials on issues of poverty.
• RESULTS, Inc., a nonprofit, grassroots advocacy 501(c)(4) organization:
• Pushes for specific policies and legislation to address poverty.
• Empowers people to become powerful voices for the end of poverty through grassroots advocacy.

For more information, visit: http://www.results.org/