Down Home Membership Portal

Let's build a multiracial movement of and for working people in rural North Carolina.

Poor and working people like you are the experts in your community. You know what you need and, together, we can build a movement to get it. 

  • When you become a member of Down Home North Carolina, you can: 
  • Help research, write, and ratify our political platform
  • Help interview political candidates and vote on local endorsements
  • Recommend, research, and vote on local issue campaigns
  • Have access to trainings, workshops, conventions, and other leadership development opportunities

Because we are an organization of and for poor and working people, we ask you to pay what you can for membership monthly or annually. If you don't have much to spare, pay what you can. A dollar a month is fine. 

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VISION

All are welcome in Down Home North Carolina. 

We believe that when we come together, we are powerful. 

By weaving together our different experiences, we can shape a democracy that serves working people, where our labor is valued, and our food, water, and land are healthy. 

In shared struggle, we are creating a home where we and all our children can live with respect, inclusion, and  security. 
 

ORGANIZING PRINCIPLES 

These statements are guidelines of our movement, which we all commit to uphold. We will strive to live these  principles through our work as Down Home NC; when we fall short, we will rededicate ourselves to these  principles and our shared goals. 

  • We unite to build the power and raise the voices of working people in small town and rural North  Carolina in order to take action on the issues that matter to us. 
  • Everyone is welcome in Down Home NC. We know that our differences make us stronger, and we want  to make sure that everyone feels they belong. 
  • We will work to understand and unlearn the ways in which we have been taught to distrust and harm  one another. To build the shared organization we need, we have to be proactive and engage in  conversations with our community that may not always be easy, but are important. 
  • We will build trust with one another by speaking honestly and respectfully. We know that we will make  mistakes, but we recognize that we can only overcome prejudice and injustice by speaking directly to our experiences of them.
  • We must bring others into Down Home NC. We need more people if we ever hope to win changes for  working communities. It is the responsibility of every one of us to provide people with an opportunity  to work for what they believe in. Every person you meet is someone should talk to about Down Home  NC, recruitment is never over. 
  • The problems aren't going to fix themselves. We will have to take repeated, and often difficult, action  to win the changes we need. 
  • It's going to have to be us. No one is coming to save the day. If you're serious about wanting to see  change, it's time to get to work. 
  • We are leaders. We step up, trusting that we have the knowledge to develop solutions for our  communities. As experts about our own lives, we respect everyone's skills and strive to develop new  ones by learning from each other. We are solutions oriented; if we see something we don't like, we  contribute with something we do like, modeling an alternative. 
  • If you've lived it, you lead it. There is no substitute for experience. We take leadership from people  with direct, first-hand experience of the issues we work on.