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The Hickory NAACP along with ICCV and the Catawba County NAACP, are presenting a 2026 election workshop by Common Cause NC. This will be held Tuesday, Sept. 22, at 6 pm at Ridgeview Library, 706 1st St. SW, Hickory.
The session will include an overview of the 2026 electoral landscape and recent election changes in our state. Presenters will outline how local concerns connect to what’s on the ballot at all levels – from contests at the congressional level to judicial races to the NC general assembly as well as school board races.
It is so important to let your voice be heard by voting. Early voting makes sure your voice is counted. Click on the graphic to learn all about how to prepare before voting and how to take action to vote.
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Catawba Valley Pride Festival
When: Saturday, Sept. 19
Time: 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Where: Catawba Farms
1670 Southwest Blvd.
Newton, NC
Apparently, the vendors at the Pride Festival are the place to be, and they are sold out of applications for vendors, so that sounds promising! The food trucks get a high recommendation, too. They are still taking applications for volunteers on their website if you are interested.
Sounds like a really fun family day. Kids are welcome. Join us in Newton on September 19. Let's celebrate together.
Todos Somos America
When: Saturday, Sept. 26
Time: 3:00 to 8:00 PM
Where: Downtown Newton, NC
We’d like to have a huge presence at Todos Somos America for the entire festival to ensure our Latino friends and neighbors feel safe to celebrate. So please wear your ICCV shirt and come out to show your support.
"It can be an amazing time of healing in our Latino community and those standing with them, like all of you. It would be an amazing time for us to show up in numbers and support Centro Latino and the incredible work they do and the pain they have endured," said Devin Murphy. "This is a joyous event with amazing food, dancing, and history. Your presence would be deeply appreciated."
ICCV is a proud sponsor for both these events.
Indivisible Citizens of Catawba County met at Congressman Pat Harrigan’s office on August 11, 2026 for an Empty Chair Town Hall. Click to see the video from that event.
ICE Out!! Say Their Names
On July 25, 2026 on Highway 70 in Southwest Hickory, 41 concerned citizens gathered in a protest organized by the Indivisible Citizens of Catawba Valley to mourn the 59 lives taken and hundreds or thousands more shattered by ICE and to demand justice and accountability.
“We were on Highway 70 on Jan. 10, 2026, to protest the unlawful, the outrageous, behavior of ICE agents terrorizing our communities and killing and disappearing our neighbors,” said Deb Johnson, ICCV chair. “At that time, there had been 35 fatalities, starting from Jan. 20, 2025, when the 47th President was inaugurated, due to ICE’s reckless actions – shooting three innocent people while another 32 perished due to lack of care in detention facilities.
“Six months later, the numbers now total 59 lives lost due to a reckless and lawless federal agency,” Johnson continued. “It is past time to abolish ICE and rebuild a humane immigration and customs enforcement program.”
Concerned – outraged and caring – we gathered to show public support for targeted and vulnerable neighbors.
Click for more images from our event
Our Good Trouble event on July 18th was a great way to honor the legacy of civil rights activist Congressman John Lewis. ICCV and NAACP Hickory Branch gathered at Morning Star Baptist Church for an early evening of friendship and to focus on voter rights.
March for Voting Rights
On June 27, 2026 more than 100 people came together at Sally M. Fox Park from three starting points – Piedmont Wagon, Ridgeview Recreation Center, and St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church – in a march organized by the Indivisible Citizens of Catawba Valley (ICCV) to bring attention to the paramount importance of voting and voting rights.
At the park, chants and singing were followed by a formal program. Rev. Reggie Longcrier of Exodus Missionary Baptist Church introduced keynote speaker Rev. Steve Allen of Greensboro. A UNC Chapel Hill-trained attorney, Rev. Allen was the first elected Black Superior Court Judge in Guilford County since Reconstruction. More recently, he was pastor of Greensboro’s Shiloh Baptist Church and resident of the Pulpit Forum of Greensboro.
In his remarks, Rev. Allen spoke about the goal of the nation’s founders to create a framework that would continue “to form a more perfect union.”
“The Constitution sets forth the framework, the blueprint,” Allen said, “and it gives power to the people...not solely to the President, not solely to Congress, and not solely to the Supreme Court.”
While the U.S. system of government was designed for the people to have power, Allen continued, “there are certain people in this country who want to divide us -- because they know that if we are united; if we come together as one; if we come together; if we are united as one, then we have the power to really and truly be free; to have good jobs; to have affordable housing; to have a good and sound education for our children and our children’s children.”
Turning to the multiple efforts to suppress the right to vote, Rev. Allen continued, “If the right to vote was not important to preserving our freedoms in our country why in the world would they be working so hard to take the right to vote away from us? It is because they know that power belongs to the people.”
Click for more images from our event and some of Rev. Allen’s remarks
At our April Monthly meeting, we had a presentation by Julie Noh-Smith on the current state of our healthcare and what can be done to improve it.
Click for more information and the link to sign the petition to demand affordable quality healthcare for all.
Indivisible Citizens of Catawba Valley Stand With Workers and Kids on May 1
Indivisible Citizens of Catawba Valley joined other Indivisible groups, as well as the North Carolina Association of Educators, in a public display of solidarity with workers and kids on May 1.
More than two dozen people, many wearing Indivisible Citizens of Catawba Valley t-shirts, along with one protestor in a frog suit and another dressed as an ICE agent, held signs alongside Highway 70 in southeast Hickory on Friday afternoon to show their support for “Workers Over Billionaires / Kids Over Corporations.”
A small sample of the powerful words delivered by Rev Dr Hanna Broome at our No Kings Rally
Over 1300 people participated in our No Kings Rally on March 28, 2026. Click for more information and pictures from the Rally.
2025 in Review
Click above to view a video of all that we accomplished in 2025
Click above to read the report given by our Chairperson of all our accomplishments in 2025
ICCV is honored to have received the Rev. Dr. M. L. King Annual Spirit of King Organizational Award at the Spirit of King Community Worship on January 18, 2026