Community Civil Activist

🖌OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS, WRITERS, & MAKERS📷

How can you leverage your political power as a young, Southern person?

This year, The Future Echoes: A Zine Anthology invites young Southern artists, writers, makers, and activists ages 18-30 to submit their work to our zine series in response to the prompt "Young Southern Voting Power."

We are looking for thought-provoking and honest works that interrogate ideas around voting, power, politics, southerness, and change. Whether you have been creating art your whole life or have never considered yourself creative, we encourage you to submit.

Submitters will:
✏See their art featured on our website and social media pages
✏Receive a printed copy of the Year 2 Zine
✏Have a chance to be a published author and be included in the full, printed anthology publication.

Deadline: November 2, 2026

Learn more and apply: https://www.acluofnczines.org/submit

Concord residents ask City Council to take stand against proposed ICE detention center Around a dozen residents spoke out against a possible ICE detention center during Thursday’s Concord City Council meeting, urging local leaders to take a public stand against the proposal.

☀️🍎 FREE summer meals are back!
Cabarrus County Schools is proud to offer FREE healthy meals to all children and teens 18 years old and younger through our Summer School Nutrition Program mobile meal routes.
📅 June 1 – July 31, 2026
🗓️ Monday – Thursday
✅ Child must be present to receive meals

Our mobile meal buses will make stops throughout Cabarrus County each weekday to help ensure children have access to nutritious meals all summer long.

🚍 Check the route schedule in the comments to find the stop nearest you.

Need help finding a summer meal site?
📞 1-866-3-HUNGRY (1-866-348-6479)
📞 Español: 1-877-8-HAMBRE (1-877-842-6273)

Please share this information with family, friends, neighbors, and community members who may benefit from this program. ❤️

Happy 6th Anniversary Community Civil Activist! We are thankful for 6 Years of Community! ❤️✊🏽🎊

What started on June 6, 2020, as a response to injustice has grown into a movement dedicated to connecting communities to civil rights, resources, and opportunities. Over the past six years, we’ve organized, educated, advocated, protested, collaborated, and built relationships that continue to strengthen our communities.

Together, we’ve fought for justice, supported families, trained community leaders, engaged voters, empowered everyday people, and worked toward a future where everyone can prosper and feel safe while being treated equitably by those in power.

THANK YOU to every volunteer, donor, partner, supporter, community member, and team member who has been part of building community. Your activism makes CCA what it is!

CCA aims to connect communities to their civil liberties and encourages activism across North Carolina. We are focused on widespread acknowledgment of racial and ethnic disparities within our community, schools, health, housing, and financing services. We urge community leaders and government officials to find and fund solutions to end racial bias.

More information on our programs and Long Summer events coming soon!

Join Us! Visit our Website
www.Communitycivilactivist.org

Donate Via Paypal or
Cashapp: $communitycivilact

We won’t stay silent while ICE plans to expand deadly detention in our state. Join us for a rally and press conference on May 26 at 2:00 PM in front of the NC General Assembly.

Learn more: https://acluofnc.org/sdrally2026

Our spring Statewide Advocates Call is NEXT WEEK!

As we head into the summer months and prepare for the midterm elections this fall... NOW is the time to turn advocacy into action.

During this virtual event, we'll share:

✳️ Updates on bills moving through the NC General Assembly
✳️ Why public comment at the SBOE has never been more important
✳️ How you can get involved as an elections advocate in your community
✳️ Reflections from this year's Democracy Summer interns as they begin a life-changing summer of organizing and advocacy

You coming? Let us know by RSVPing at demnc.co/events.

See y'all next week 🫡

🚨Deadline EXTENDED to Friday, MAY 29, at 11:59 pm ET: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XS3K36L

Your input is critical to developing a bold strategy that reflects and meets the needs of North Carolinians!

Tonight's Regular Meeting starts at 6 p.m. Interim County Manager Kelly Sifford will present the FY27 Recommended Budget during the meeting.

Watch live 👉 www.youtube.com/cabarruscounty or Spectrum Channel 22.

Why care? The proposed budget outlines the County’s priorities and plans for the future as Cabarrus County continues to grow and service demands increase. Stay informed and get involved.

North Carolina Governor Denies Nearly All Juvenile Lifers Seeking Clemency After the state’s previous governor created a board to consider clemency for people sentenced to lengthy prison terms as minors, a new administration closes their pathway to freedom.