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Extending the Voting Rights Act

Posted on June 08, 2005

Have you seen Battleground Minnesota? Hip-hop activists Shakademic and Glenn Scott take to the Minnesota streets to raise awareness on voter registration and voting practices before the 2004 elections. But their message is clear: civic engagement is not regulated to presidential elections.

Demos is collaborating with other New York organizations on a series of panels surrounding the Voting Rights Act. The Voting Rights Act has shaped the nation’s political landscape like no other legislation enacted in recent times. Signature provisions of the law are set to expire in 2007. What have these provisions, including bilingual ballots and voting rights mandates meant to the political process in New York City? What will be lost if the expiring provisions are not extended? How can you get involved?

Join Demos and other on June 9th for a discussion with panelists:

Debo Adegbile, Associate Director of Litigation, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

Lucia Gomez-Jimenez, Latino Voting Rights Network

Jon Greenbaum, Executive Director of the National Commission on the Voting
Rights Act and Director of the Voting Rights Project of the Lawyers’
Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

Americo Santiago, Program and Policy Director, Democracy Works in Connecticut

Moderator: Steven Carbó, Director of the Democracy Program, Demos

Thursday, June 9, 2005
6-8pm
Demos
220 Fifth Avenue, Fifth Floor
New York, NY

Refreshments served

RSVP at
www.demos-usa.org/eventregistration
or by calling
(212) 633-1405 x 533.

Learn more about Demos' event series.

Related Films: Battleground Minnesota