CHANGE (Communities Helping All Neighbors Gain Empowerment) has partnered with the Winston-Salem Police Department in an effort to identify residents who do not have a government-issued identification card. At first glance, it’s not difficult to see who propels this group, who declares they are “not a movement, a protest group, a political action committee, or a service organization.” They also claim, “We do not run programs, endorse candidates, or take government money. But what we do is to cultivate skills of our local leaders by identifying shared concerns and needs so that we may act together for the common good.” Funders include: The Catholic Campaign for Human Development, The Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, The Winston Salem Foundation, and the Lutheran (ELCA) Domestic Hunger Project. No liberal agenda here.
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[…] The police chief says that the ID’s will be issued to people who don’t have identification already and will help the police when they interact with these people. He went on to say that the group CHANGE will “be looking for different forms of identification that they verify…and after the verification that they do, then they will issue their ID card.” CHANGE describes itself as an organization of good power and is one of the “57 affiliates of the oldest and largest community organizing networks in the United States, The Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF).” Click here to read a Civitas Blog on who funds CHANGE. […]
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[…] Civitas Review Online has published an article on CHANGE called Coming Soon: Rush of Illegal Immigrants to Winston Salem. […]
We beat CHANGE (which should actually be an acronym for Communist Hurting All Neighbors, Galvanizing Everyone) at the polls on 2 November. Now they are attempting an end run around the legal process by issuing photo ID’s and the W-S Chief of Police is helping them. Let’s not forget that our chief law enforcement officer is an elected official and a Republican. What is his position on the matter?