This planning call and Advocacy Day are open to the public.
Info Call For TFS Advocacy Day 2024
TFS Advocacy Day Co-Leads - Leah & Madhavi
Thursday, April 18, 7PM
Interested in next month’s Advocacy Day where you can meet with state representatives and senators about secular issues? Learn more at this informational video meeting at tinyurl.com/TFSmeeting.
Tentative Schedule for Advocacy Day
May 22, 2024
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
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 fill out our survey.
The TFS Advocacy Committee is setting up meetings with state senators and representatives from Wake, Durham, and Orange counties.* (Seven so far; depending on last minute schedules for votes and committee meetings.)
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.
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.
*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.