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CommonGood E-News What's happening in social justice, social action and community outreach in Dare County, Currituck Outer Banks and Lower Currituck.
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Facing Deportation
This site is a professional thesis project completed by Eileen Mignoni
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of
Arts in Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  For each person detained in immigration
actions, an estimated additional 3.5 people are directly affected.
Those affected are mothers, fathers, children and spouses. How are they
affected?
An estimated
35,000 people were placed in detention proceedings during 2008, many of
them through the efforts of local law-enforcement agencies that partner
with the Department of Homeland Security to detain and remove illegal
aliens. That means immigration proceedings disrupted an estimated
122,500 lives in the U.S last year. |
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Follow live-blog of Reform Immigration FOR America Campaign Summit. |
CommonGround
We share the air, the earth, and the water
with each other. CommonGood hopes
to provide resources, information and dialogue about environmental
Issues on the Outer Banks. One Section is reserved for Climate Change Critics. One of the pleasures of the internet is the ability to link back what's behind generalizations by researching sponsors and 'scientists. With the summer heat beginning to bear down here - climate change sounds like an appropriate summer project.
Comments can be addressed to obxcommongood@gmail.com
In the meantime here are
Our message is simple we
want you to consume less, buy used when you can, and shop responsibly!
That's where our mission comes in...to offer products that have been carefully
selected with the best combinations of being made close to home, careful
quality control, natural, organic, recycled, recyclable, chemical free,
sustainable and fairly made. We use ALL of our products or they have
come highly recommended by friends and family with first hand knowledge
of the product. Planet Pleasing Goods is a culmination of many ideas from friends
and family, which I deeply value.Shop Planet Pleasing Goods for Earth Friendly products.
This blog is all about my family's quest to live greener, healthier
lives. Organic gardening, DIY projects, unschooling, eco friendly
products, product reviews, animal rights and whatever else is going on!
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Volunteer Opportunities
 Animal Lovers Assistance League
The Currituck Animal Shelter is open daily and welcomes
volunteers! Contact Ginger Sikes,Call 252-457-0011
Albemarle Commission
Volunteers need to deliver hot, nutritious meals to
senior citizens. Contact Della Perry at (252-441-1181) or
Sandra Cantrell Bush at (252-473-5768 ext. 28)
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Women's Advocacy Day
Wednesday, June 18th, Legislative Building, Raleigh
Registration begins at 9am. Secretary of State Elaine Marshall is the keynote
speaker! NC Women United is a coalition of organizations and individuals
committed to advancing public policies that
support the full economic, legal and social
equality of women in NC.
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Subscriptions to CommonGood Enews reach 925.
Little more than two years ago, I started with 100 subscribers. I wrote in the first issue: Aristotle said "Where your talents and the need of the world cross, there lies your vocation."
I believe the world needs more justice, more peace, better access
to healthcare, more diversity and more compassion. My world now is
Lower Currituck and Date County. After years of professional human
resource work and marketing communication and retirement days of
exploring software and the Internet, I feel called to offer a service
to my world. I find I have to read three different newspapers to find
out about the good work and good causes in our community. As a relative
newcomer, I don't often understand the network of social justice,
social action and community outreach programs.
So I propose a new connection: the CommonGood E-News. This is a
nonpartisan, nonprofit newsletter providing communication of events and
activities sponsored by grassroots efforts and nonprofits in social
justice, and community outreach.
Thank you to all supporters and contributors. It has been a great two years. I've met many, many good people who reach out with compassion and work for justice. Frederick Buechner once said:
As we move around this world and as we act with kindness
towards the people we meet, we are setting the great spider web atremble. The life I touch for good or ill will touch
another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling
stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.
I've lived in big cities. The work was good and rewarding. But it was hard feel you could make the great and complex spider web tremor. The web is smaller here. Here, each person has the blessed opportunity to make a difference, to set the web trembling. May our future bring us together, dancing with joy and peace across the web of our interconnected lives.
Peace, Justice, and Joy
Nancy
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Organizations are invited to list volunteer
opportunities at CommonGood . Looking for a place to volunteer, check the listings at CommonGood.
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James Richards CoffeeHouse and Hot Line Benefit
 Coffeehouse Concert on Saturday, June 13 at 7 pm, featuring songwriter and
guitarist, James Richards from Asheville, NC, at the Unitarian Universalist
Meetinghouse on the corner of Herbert Perry & Kitty Hawk Roads in Kitty
Hawk, NC. A $5 free will donation will
be accepted at the door and refreshments served with proceeds being shared with
the Outer Banks Hotline Crisis Interventions & Prevention Center.
A classically trained singer, Richards has a
soulful voice and is steeped in a self-described "acousticfunkgrass," citing
Lightenin' Hopkins, Otis Redding, and Peter Gabriel as major influences. He sings and plays guitar
mostly at campfire sing-a-longs, benefits, house parties, and places of worship. While continuing to write songs
Richards, a former DJ, nurtures a gift for "songcatching" as an important
element of sacred music.
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Harmony Cafe JUST PLAYN DIXIELAND on Friday, June 12. St. Andrews by the Sea, Nags Head, Call 202.1190 for information. 7-9 in the Evening. Tickets $10.00 Includes Wonderful Music, endless coffee from SOUTHEN BEAN, delicious desserts, Tea & & Water. Benefit for GEM.
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Circus Tent Reunion The Circus
Tent Ministry was a huge part of the Outer Banks from 1968-1988.
The New Hermeneutics Band members of '71 and '73, (including Curtis Cambell, Pastor of Kitty Hawk United Methodist Church) are planning a reunion for a public performance at the Promenade in Kitty Hawk. June 27 6-8 pm. This is a family evening filled with folk music revues, songs
for kids, and songs of faith. Proceeds will be given to the OBX
Interfaith Community Outreach. The performance is free and open to
everyone. For more information visit the KHUMC website.
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Outer Banks Blog nominated for Best Blog in Norfolk Area.
 Vote for Local Blog, My Inconvenient Body, nominated by Parents Connect. My Inconvenient Body is a blog written by an Outer Banks mom who had
to change her "I'm never having children" tune after learning she was
pregnant. This new mom is now learning how to incorporate motherhood
into her life as a "serious and uncompromised artist. Well written, witty and intelligent.
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Realtor Scholarship Fund Golf Classic.
 Thursday, June 18th, 12:30 Shotgun Start. Kilmarlic Golf Club. Registration - Click Here | |
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