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Here is Issue 11 - Winter/Spring 2022
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Feb 19, 2022 Saturday 10am (Mountain) |
Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation: What is it? How Can It Benefit Our Community? Sponsored by the LWV of Greater Tucson. Featuring Jose Rico, Exec. Dir. for Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Greater Chicago who will speak to the topic of Truth: What is the History of TRHT?; Dr. Tia Brown McNair, VP for Diversity, Equity, and Student Success and Exec. Dir. , TRHT Campus Centers, Assn. of American Colleges and Universities, who will speak to the topic of Racial Healing: How Does It Happen?; and, Stacey Ledbetter, creator of groundbreaking “Expanding our Horizons” experience, connecting community and police cadets who will speak to the topic of Transformation: What Are Others Doing? |
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Feb 20, 2022 Sunday 10am (Pacific) |
Suppressed: The Fight to Vote. Sponsored by the Social Justice Committee of the Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center, a co-sponsor of the America at a Crossroads series.Featuring award-winning filmmaker, Robert Greenwald, discussing his film, Suppressed: The Fight to Vote. |
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Feb 22, 2022 Tuesday 5pm (Eastern) |
LWVUS Community Call. League members convene for cross-learning and relationship-building. The discussion will focus on voter outreach and use of the VOTE411 LWVUS tool. |
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Feb 22, 2022 Tuesday 5pm (Pacific) |
The California minimum wage hurts rather than helps low-wage employees. A debate sponsored by the Central Coast and Southern CA Alliance of Braver Angels. |
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Feb 23, 2022 Wednesday 5pm (Pacific) |
January 6, 2021 was just practice.Sponsored by Jews United for Democracy & Justice and Community Advocates, Inc., part of their America at a Crossroads series.Featuring author and Pulitzer prize-winning writer for The Atlantic, Barton Gellman and moderated by Madeleine Brand, co-host of KCRW’s legal affairs podcast, The Legal Eagle Files. |
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Feb 24, 2022 Thursday 2pm (Eastern) |
Promising Practices Webinar: Reflecting Racial Equity in City Policies. Sponsored by the National Civic League, featuring Deanna Shahnami, Esq., Associate Counsel, Intl. Municipal Lawyers Assn.; Jonathan Butler, Equity Manager, City of San Antonio, TX; and, Val Nosler Beck, City Councilmember District IV, Wheat Ridge, CO. Speakers will provide a historical overview of discriminatory laws and policies, as well as ways communities are working to include principles of equity, access and inclusion. |
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Feb 26, 2022 Saturday 2pm (Eastern) |
Depolarizing Conversations About Race. Sponsored by Braver Angels. Learn how to listen to people who have differing views on race and public policy so they feel heard. Become more skilled in expressing your views so that others can hear you as well. |
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Feb 28, 2022 Monday 7pm (Eastern) |
Adams, Jefferson, and the Turbulent Election of 1800. Sponsored by the National Constitution Center | America’s Town Hall | Constitutional Conversations Uniting Thought Leaders from All Sides of the Debate. Co-sponsored by the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Featuring presidential historians Lindsay Chervinsky and Edward Larson discussing one of the most contentious and partisan elections in US history and what we can learn from it. The discussion will be moderated by Jeffrey Rosen, president/CEO of the Nat. Constitution Center. |
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Mar 1, 2022 Tuesday 4pm (Pacific)
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Defending Democracy Series: Election Law + SCOTUS. Sponsored by the LWV of Piedmont, CA. Co-sponsored by Leagues in Florida, Colorado, Oregon and California. Featuring Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, Berkeley School of Law. Learn about the scope of SCOTUS power in our elections, nuances in election law, and threats to voting rights, including racial and language discrimination. |
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Mar 2, 2022 Wednesday 5pm (Pacific) |
Safeguarding Free and Fair Elections. Sponsored by Jews United for Democracy & Justice and Community Advocates, Inc., part of their America at a Crossroads series.Featuring two leading election attorneys, Benjamin Ginsberg and Bob Bauer, in conversation with NPR’s Pam Fessler. |
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Mar 5-11, 2022 Sat-Fri Check schedule for times |
Issues Briefing 2022. Sponsored by the LWV of Illinois. This event offers 12 different panels with outstanding speakers, over the course of a week on a wide range of topics, such as: making your voice heard; combatting misinformation; minimizing disruptions at public events; teaching diversity; achieving real freedom for those previously incarcerated; storage of spent nuclear fuel; immigration issues; the electoral college; and gun violence. There is a charge of $25 which allows attendance at all events for the entire week. View the entire schedule at the registration link. There is also a scholarship form at the registration link, so don’t let the cost prohibit your attendance. This is an opportunity to hear respected leaders in their fields of expertise. Click here to register for this event.
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