This event is open to the public. See additional information below.
TFS Advocacy Day 2024 - We’re Secular and We Vote! Let your voice be heard!
TFS Advocacy Day at the General Assembly Building
If the last few years have taught us anything about politics it is that elections have consequences and it is those that show up to vote that dictate what those consequences are going to be!
But voting is just the first step.
Tentative Schedule for Advocacy Day
8-8:30 AM: Arrive
8:30 - 9 AM: Prep time for groups
9-9:30: Enter NCGA and get briefed by an elected official
9:30-12: Meetings and literature drops
12 PM: Lunch
1 PM: Continue Meetings and hopefully attend a session
3 PM: Quick download and leave
We are declaring Wednesday, May 22, 2024 as the TFS Advocacy Day (after speaking to several elected officials about a date that gives us a good chance to get on their calendars). The TFS Advocacy Committee is setting up meetings with state senators and representatives from Wake, Durham, and Orange counties.*
This is an opportunity to advocate for our key issues as atheists, agnostics, freethinkers, and secular humanists: separation of state and church, LGBTQIA+ rights, abortion access, women's rights, school voucher programs that send state funds to religious organizations, and immigration issues.
If you are ready to commit to participating, which can include speaking to your member of the NCGA or just attending and allowing others to speak, please register by filling out our survey.
Opportunities to speak on TFS’s behalf are prioritized for current TFS members, but all of our secular community is invited to join us in the offices. Even if we can’t meet with someone in person, we will be able to leave printed material with their assistant.
Note that this will take place during normal business hours on Wednesday, May 22, 2024.
More details will be shared via email and at upcoming virtual preparation meetings.
*From another county? No problem, if you sign up to join us, we will reach out to your representative/senator and try to make an appointment!
While this event is open to the public and all are welcome, this is not a time or place for debate or evangelizing. Anyone causing a disturbance or making others uncomfortable will be asked to leave.