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Building the Election Reform Meetup
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Thursday, April 23, 2009 |
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DC Vote office at 2000 P Street, NW, Suite 200 |
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7:00 PM - 8:30 PM |
Join DC Vote at a Building the Election Reform Meetup for a discussion on the status of the DC House Voting Rights Act (H.R. 157)
and the Advancement Project. Speakers include Eugene D. Kinlow, Public Affairs Director for DC Vote and Edward Hailes, Senior Attorney
and Power and Democracy Director for the Advancement Project.
- When: 7:00-8:30 PM on Thursday, April 23, 2009
- Where: DC Vote office at 2000 P Street, NW, Suite 200
The Advancement Project is a policy and legal action group that creates strategies for achieving universal opportunity and a racially just democracy. The Advancement Project's Right to Vote Public Education Initiative seeks to increase public awareness of the need for stronger voting rights enforcement, including the ramifications of an affirmative, federally protected right to vote. This initiative is an extension of U.S. Representative Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.'s pioneering work (House Joint Resolution 28), which spearheaded the most recent movement to enshrine the right to vote into the U.S. Constitution by amendment.
Building the Election Reform Movement Meetup is a monthly meetup that gives an opportunity to receive information about election reforms, and to mobilize in support of current local and national campaigns and actions relevant to the DC metro area. The Meetup prioritizes from the perspective of wishing to grow a broader, more inclusive representation through election reform and the advancement of voting rights to strengthen our democracy.
If you have any questions, please contact Jennifer Karius of the Building Election Reform Movement Meetup at jenkarius@gmail.com.
For more information, visit http://electionreform.meetup.com/176/.
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