Author Archives: Justin Ruckman

Federal Reserve Bank protest in uptown Charlotte

videography: Justin Ritchie, production: Justin Ruckman; watch this video on Vimeo
Justin Ritchie, James Willamor, a couple other friends and I went to the Federal Reserve Bank protest this Saturday. We stayed for a little under an hour, got a lot of photos and video, and ate lunch with a couple of the protestors afterwards at [...]

NC Music Factory ribbon-cutting, interview with VP of Entertaiment

videography: Justin Ritchie, production: Justin Ruckman; watch this video on Vimeo
Yesterday was crystal clear and unusually warm in Charlotte. At the NC Music Factory ribbon-cutting ceremony, around 150 shuffled inside for live music and hot apple cider.
Watch the video above for highlights from the event, including an interview with Ken Thomas, VP of Entertainment at [...]

Ron Paul fans: Federal Reserve Bank protest Saturday the 22nd

“Groups and individuals alike will gather in 39 cities across the U.S. on Saturday, November 22, 2008 to protest at all branches of the Federal Reserve Bank. Participating groups are calling for an end to the Federal Reserve banking system by returning to sound money and competing currencies. The better part of the protest [...]

Election night Charlotte Twitter activity visualization

Watch this video in HD on Vimeo.
Check out this video by Blair Trosper (@blairblends on Twitter) and Charlotte Tweets (@cltweets) showing Twitter keyword popularity in Charlotte, including the names of the various political candidates, as poll results streamed in on election night.
This is just the beginning, Blair has been saying on Twitter, so be sure [...]

Video: Obama rally at UNC Charlotte in 6 minutes

Watch/download this video on Vimeo.
Thanks to Erik Button and Jonathan Winn for manning the cameras.
Give this a look while you’re surfing the web looking at election results. It was a historic event for both UNC Charlotte and of course, American politics.
This has been the most interesting video to produce for CLT Blog so far, I [...]

Initial Report: Obama rally at UNC Charlotte

photo credits: Matthew Tyndall & Justin Ritchie
We got a ton of photos tonight, but here are 15 of the better ones real quick while we get the rest uploaded. If you can’t see the slideshow above, or just would prefer not to use it, you can view these photos directly on Flickr.
All in all the [...]

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Parking info for Obama rally at UNC Charlotte

Some excerpts from an email just sent out to all UNC Charlotte students, faculty and staff regarding parking and driving tomorrow on campus in light of the Obama rally:
ENTRANCE ALERT: Vehicles entering campus on the day of the event, Monday, Nov. 3, should use the U.S. 49 main entrance, the John Kirk Rd. entrance, or [...]

Call for volunteers at tomorrow’s Obama rally

I just spoke with Taylor Ferrel, the local Obama campaign field organizer. People from the main Obama campaign office in Chicago are coming down tonight to organize volunteers for tomorrow’s rally at UNC Charlotte. Among other things, they’ll need help managing lines and setting up & tearing down the stages and equipment.
There is a mandatory [...]

Update: Obama at UNC Charlotte on Monday

“Barack Obama will be appearing at the Hayes Recreation Fields on the UNC Charlotte campus Monday, the campaign announced this evening.
The event begins at 5:30 p.m.; doors open at 3 p.m.”
Read more by Peter St. Onge at the Observer’s election blog, The Ballot.

Obama in Charlotte one last time on Monday

“Senator Barack Obama’s campaign announced today that he will return to the Charlotte area on Monday.
The stop is part of a barnstorming tour of states the day before the election.”
Read more by Sean Corcoran at WBTV. Further details as yet unavailable.