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The challenge of improved government in the Carolinas and elsewhere across America calls for the building of effective coalitions, with leadership responsive to issues that affect people. Publishing our first issue in October of 2001 under our original masthead as The People’s Civic Record, we found it tough going to survive as a pubic interest voice here in the Cape Fear area. We peaked in September and October of 2004, distributing 11,000 magazines across a six county region. Today we live on as a quarterly publication, with this, our first web based offering. The Carolina Civic Voice seeks to address the problems of government and society in the same progressive mode, distributing 8,000 hard copy magazines per month over a two county region, with a growing list of subscribers across the Cape Fear region and the Carolinas. We also mail our magazine in bulk to selected stores and distributors in North and South Carolina. Using a tabloid magazine format, The CCV combines the distinctive features of popular street publication with those of an advanced journal of issues commentary and perspective.

Designed to challenge prejudice while building popular consensus, CCV is for the activist as well as general audiences, providing the informational tools to promote government with a social conscience, from Cape Fear to Carolina. People who believe in the public’s right to know will find fresh and stimulating perspective in an issues magazine designed both to enlighten and inform.

 

Collards and Kudzu: News Briefs and More...

CCV brings you fragments of insights, happenings and events from around the U.S., including announcements of coming events that you may want to include on your calendar.

 

 

Politics

The growing nationwide movement for web based alterative media is today much in need of a regionally based print publication that can bring readers in touch with the revolution in communications that is becoming a decisive force in contemporary politics. From in-depth articles on national events, to reviews and highlights from recent actions by leading progressive groups, Carolina Civic Voice keeps you informed with fresh perspectives on the important recent trends that affect every level of society.

 

Carolina Humanities

Culture commentary from The CCV begins with recognition of the need to address contemporary problems by moving beyond today’s corporate driven media culture. With feature stories that include reviews of contemporary music, movies and the visual arts— The CCV brings you an advanced A & E coverage without excluding the humanities. The Carolina Civic Voice strives to give expression to a culture of inclusion, with a vision of the future beyond the effects of the South's plantation culture, while also addressing the dehumanizing influences of today’s society of industry, pollution and consumption.

 

Health & Wellness

Readers today who have been influenced both by counterculture perspectives of food, the environment and nutrition, and by New Age attitudes toward lifestyles and choices are more than ever conscious of health and wellness issues. The CCV brings you fresh and stimulating articles on subjects ranging from dieting to hospitals, tackling the giant issues such as national health insurance and universal health care, with as much scorn for conventional wisdom as unashamed devotion to the public interest.

 

 

Human Rights

CCV attempts to record and confront human rights abuses, in recognition of the inherent link between human rights and the politics of reform.
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Seeing the Human ConditionAn Essay in Civic Humanism by John L. Godwin

Carolina Civic Voice

© Liberty Quill Publica-tions Co.

Dr. John L. Godwin

Editor & Publisher

Liberty Quill Publications

P.O. Box 4886

Wilmington, N.C. 28406

 

Contact:

910-798-9667

quillj@bellsouth.net

 

 

Contributors:

Michael Edwards, John L. Godwin, Thea Hagepanos,  Thom Hartmann, Karen S. Holbrook, Marjorie Hudson, Agnes McDonald, Jim Megivern, Vicki Merbler, David Mills, Steve Taylor, Richard M. Trask,  and Matt Wuerker.
Text Box: About CCV—Mission Statement: Carolina Civic Voice is a news and issues magazine published in Wilmington North Carolina, serving the Cape Fear and Carolina region. Readers today too often languish in the greater sea of conservative ink among Carolina publications. We therefore offer an alternative voice, dedicated to better appreciation of the possibilities of life in a democratic society. As Americans, we share the belief in government based on the Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution. We acknowledge that this heritage of liberty, by which the citizen is elevated through self government and public education, belongs by birthright to all. We are pledged to the proposition that people count, that life matters, and that government of the people shall not perish. Literary and artistic freedom of expression we seek to nurture as a means toward a culture of inclusion and social affirmation—the primary remedies for the corrosive maladies of the modern world. We welcome readers and invite your comments. —The Editor Text Box: Civic Affairs & Information Culture Commentary Public Interest Advocacy for Cape Fear and Carolina

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Carolina Civic Voice is published and distributed in Wilmington North Carolina. CCV is a progressive quarterly news and issues magazine serving the Cape Fear while reaching out to the Carolina region.

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