The Gloucester Democratic City Committee will be holding a virtual meeting on Thursday, February 11th at 6:00 PM. Members and friends may participate with video using Zoom on a computer or mobile device or may call in using a traditional phone.
Our February guest speaker is Natalie Bowers, President of the North Shore Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Join us to learn more about how our NS neighbors came to form this Branch and how they are using the six NAACP Game Changers strategy: Economic Sustainability, Education, Health, Public Safety and Criminal Justice, Voting Rights and Political Representation, Expanding Youth and Young Adult Engagement to drive their NAACP’s work.
The North Shore NAACP, which was initiated by Bowers, a Wenham resident, along with a group from Hamilton-Wenham who were motivated by the Black Lives Matter movement after the killing of George Floyd. The group first formed the Hamilton-Wenham Human Rights Coalition, then in July 2020, they officially formed a local chartered Branch of the NAACP with a commitment to NACCP’s mission to “to secure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights in order to eliminate race-based discrimination and ensure the health and well-being of all persons.” The Branch currently has 450 members who stand in solidarity against systemic racism on the North Shore, MA.
PLEASE NOTE: Due to a NAACP meeting commitment, our guest speaker segment will begin at 6:15 PM.
Members should review the previous meeting’s minutes prior to this month’s meeting.
To join the meeting using Zoom, click or tap here (http://bit.ly/GDCC-Feb-2021) when the meeting is scheduled to start. Alternatively, you can enter meeting ID 832-2611-4710 and password 542097 into Zoom to join. To join the meeting by phone, dial 1-929-436-2866, enter meeting ID 832-2611-4710, press pound (#) when asked for a participant ID, and enter password 542097.