Rise Up for Justice: VOTER SUPPRESSION AND THE FIGHT TO VOTE
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About this event
Fifty-five years after the passage of the Voting Right Act of 1965, the right to vote is being subverted by domestic and foreign actors, federal and state governments, counties and courts. The fight to vote has taken on legal, advocacy, and grassroots organizing dimensions in many parts of the country. Hear from frontline strategists, organizers and lawyers on the frontline of the battle to ensure that everyone's vote counts and every vote is counted. In collaboration with Black Voters Matter Fund, this Rise Up for Justice Livestream is the third in our Black Lives and our Collective Future series as part of the Othering and Belonging Institute at the University of California Berkeley.
Habrá taducción en español en vivo.
Co-moderated by LaTosha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter Fund
Panelist Desmond Meade, executive director of Florida Rights Restitution Coalititon
Panelist Brianna Brown, deputy director of Texas Organizing Project
Co-moderator Gerald Lenoir, Strategy Analyst at Othering and Belonging Institute
Organizer Othering & Belonging Institute
Organizer of Rise Up for Justice: VOTER SUPPRESSION AND THE FIGHT TO VOTE
The Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley brings together researchers, organizers, stakeholders, communicators, and policymakers to identify and eliminate the barriers to an inclusive, just, and sustainable society in order to create transformative change. We are a diverse and vibrant hub generating work centered on realizing a world where all people belong, where belonging entails being respected at a level that includes the right to both contribute and make demands upon society and political and cultural institutions.
The Othering & Belonging Institute responds to issues that require both immediate action and long-term strategy. The Institute engages in innovative communications, arts and cultural strategy, and strategic narrative work that attempts to re-frame the public discourse from a dominant narrative of control and fear towards one that recognizes the humanity of all people, cares for the earth, and celebrates our inherent interconnectedness.
