Election Reform Mtg. Thurs. April 23 Dupont Cir.

Please attend and forward to anyone interested, listservs, etc.
What: Building the election reform movement April Meetup

When: April 23, 2009 7:00 PM

Where: DC Vote Conference Room, Dupont Circle location
2000 P St NW # 200 Washington, DC 20036
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2000+P+St+NW+Washington,+DC+20036
(1 block from Dupont Cir. Metro--Red Line)
Price: $3.00 per person
More info: http://electionreform.meetup.com/176/

Meetup Description: DC Vote and Building the Election Reform Movement
Meetup present:
Eugene Kinlow of DC Vote, on the status of the DC Voting Rights Act
(H.R. 157) and the outlook for self-determination and Statehood in the
111th Congress. And Edward Hailes of the Advancement Project, on the
National Affirmative Right to Vote Initiative

DC Vote is a 501(c)(3) education and advocacy organization dedicated to
securing full voting representation in Congress for residents of the
District of Columbia. Founded in 1998, DC Vote works to secure full
voting rights in Congress for the residents of the District of Columbia by:
• Informing Congress and the American public about this injustice,
• Formulating solutions with coalition partners and elected officials, and;
• Promoting change based on the principle that a government is
democratic only when people have the ability, through freely elected
leaders, to shape the laws under which they must live.
Mr Hailes is Senior Attorney and the Power and Democracy Director for
the Advancement Project. Mr. Hailes will discuss the lessons learned
from the 2008 election cycle about election administration issues, and
in looking forward, the importance of uniting our many reform efforts
into a broad-based, racially diverse movement in support of a guaranteed
federal right to vote.

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 (DC Metro) 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.

Agenda:

7:00 PM- Welcome
7:05 PM- Introductions
7:15 PM- Edward Hailes, The Advancement Project
7:30 PM- Eugene Kinlow, DC Vote
7:45 PM- Questions and Answers
8:30 PM- Adjournment

Learn more here: http://electionreform.meetup.com/176/