Voter Suppression, Gerrymandering, and the Need for Redistricting Reform
Teresa Basey | Published on 1/26/2021
DOCUMENTARY FILM SERIES WITH PANELISTS AND Q&A
January 28, February 4, February 11
7:30 PM EST – 9 PM EST
Price: Free · Duration: 1 hr 30 min Public
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UNCIVIL WAR: U.S. ELECTIONS UNDER SIEGE
Thursday, Feb 4, 2021
7:30-9:00 p.m. EST
Produced & directed by Indiana native Tom Glynn
This 45-minute documentary exposes the web of threats facing our elections today. The film includes a segment on Indiana’s fight to reform redistricting, featuring interviews with Common Cause’s Julia Vaughn and Debbie Asberry of the Indiana League of Women Voters, co-founders of All IN for Democracy, Indiana’s Coalition for Redistricting Reform.
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Thursday, Feb 11, 2021
7:30-9:00 p.m. EST
Created by film makers Robert and Rachel Millman.
This award-winning film on gerrymander reform is about citizen activists and a landmark win for voting rights in the 2018 Pennsylvania Supreme Court case, League of Women Voters Pennsylvania v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This first of its kind lawsuit held that partisan gerrymandering violated Pennsylvania's State Constitution, irrespective of federal law, or federal courts.
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SUPPRESSED: THE FIGHT TO VOTE
by Robert Greenwald
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Produced by Brave New Films
Screened on January 28, 2021
This 35-minute documentary chronicles the 2018 midterm election in Georgia where people faced polling place closures, voter purges, missing absentee ballots and extreme wait times — disproportionately preventing students and people of color from voting
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