BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-18835593 SEQUENCE:18990801 CREATED:20200802T172200Z DESCRIPTION:Live Interactive Online Webinar Saturday, August 8thCOULD THE 2020 ELECTION BE STOLEN?\nMassive voter suppression? \nComputerized vote-counting fraud? \nWhat if Trump loses in 2020 and refuses to leave office?What could we do about it?\nHow can I make sure that my vote - and your vote- will be counted?\n\nDid Trump’s 2016 presidential victory express the will of the electorate? Or was it based on the same tactics of rampant vote suppression and computerized vote-counting fraud—that have “elected” losing candidates since 2000, including Bush/Cheney and a multitude of other rightist politicians now controlling the Senate and statehouses from coast to coast.\n\nThese urgent questions have been drowned out by the furor over “Russia-gate”—the story that it was Russia that rigged the 2016 presidential race. We need to focus on the overwhelming evidence that our elections have been stolen time and time again by operatives right here at home. Such criminal activity will certainly destroy American democracy -- unless we face it squarely, talk about it openly, and push for radical reform of our abysmal voting system, the worst in the developed world. \n\nThe cause has taken on special urgency and complexity because 2020 is not an "ordinary" election. The impact of COVID and social distancing poses difficult challenges to both vote casting and vote counting. In this "pandemic election," voter suppression becomes an even greater menace, as Trump and the GOP strive to block the expansion of mail-in voting and throw every possible obstacle in the path of the voters whose votes would bring about their defeat. And there are ominous signs that the president will not accept an electoral defeat but will throw the country into post-election chaos to keep his grip on power.\n\nThis minefield is the subject of this online panel, which includes three prominent election reform advocates. We will discuss what individual voters must do to protect their own right to vote and avoid falling victim to the suppression schemes. We will also look at what we can still do collectively to bolster the security and integrity of the election. And how to prepare to respond to several post-election scenarios that may well put our democracy to a very serious and dangerous test. Please join us in gaming it all out so we don't just repeat the disasters of the past.\n\nThis Interactive WEBINAR Will Be LIVE STREAMED on Saturday, August 8, 2020 -- 10am Pacific * 1pm Eastern * 17:00 GMT\n(2.5 hours duration) You can ask questions live.The entire event will be archived for 7 days afterwards so you can arrive late or watch it later or again.\n\nSchedule:\n\n \n Jonathan Simon -- History of computerized election fraud.\nJonathan Simon, author of CODE RED: Computerized Elections and the War on American Democracy-Election 2020 Edition, is Executive Director of Election Defense Alliance, and has published numerous papers on various aspects of election integrity since 2004. He has appeared in Stealing America Vote By Vote and Uncounted: The New Math Of American Elections, among other documentaries. See his website here.. Dr. Simon is a graduate of Harvard College and New York University School of Law. \nJennifer Cohn -- Voter Suppression in the 2020 Election.\nJennifer Cohn is an election integrity advocate, writer, and freelance journalist whose election-integrity articles have appeared in the New York Review of Books, Who What Why, TYT Investigates, The Brad Blog, and Salon. Since the 2016 election she has focused her professional efforts exclusively on investigating and exposing our country’s insecure computerized elections. Jennifer graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1989 and Hastings College of the Law in 1993. She was a law partner at Nielsen Haley & Abbott in Marin County for many years, where she specialized in insurance coverage and civil appeals. Before that she specialized in criminal appellate law.\nFormer Senator Timothy E. Wirth -- What if Trump loses in 2020, refuses to leave office and what can we do about it. See Sen. Wirth's recent Newsweek article: How Trump Could Lose the Election—And Still Remain President.\nTimothy E. Wirth is a former Congressman and Senator from Colorado. Recently, he and a group of similarly concerned citizens have been working to shed light on the potential dangers awaiting us in the 2020 election, as discussed in his Newsweek article, “How Trump Could Lose the Election – And Still Remain President.”\n Wirth began his political career as a White House Fellow under President Lyndon Johnson and served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Education in the Nixon Administration. In 1970, Wirth returned to his home state of Colorado and successfully ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1974. He represented Denver suburbs from 1975-1987. Wirth was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986 where he focused on environmental issues, particularly global climate change and population stabilization. Following these two decades of elected politics, Wirth was national Co-chair of the Clinton-Gore campaign, and from 1993 to 1997 served in the U.S. Department of State as the first Undersecretary for Global Affairs. \nTHE WHOLE PANEL WILL ADDRESS: -- Practical ways that individuals can protect their own vote and how groups can join together to protect the integrity of the 2020 election and respond in real time to red flags and stunts.\nJeremy Rothe-Kushel-- Moderator \nJeremy Rothe-Kushel is an analyst, broadcaster & producer with a background in permaculture design, political organizing, and future-roots music production, performance and education. He co-hosts and produces The AnteDote and the KKFI Kansas City community radio show “Understanding Israel Palestine.”\nLive Questions from the audience.\n \n\n\n\nLive Video Streaming and Archiving for this important news event is\nprovided by No Lies Radio News \n“The views expressed in this event are the sole responsibility of the speaker(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of noliesradio.org. Noliesradio.org will not be responsible or liable for any inaccurate or incorrect statements expressed therein.”\nIf you cannot afford to donate for a ticket please explain your situation. Email us at: info@noliesradio.org \n\n \n\n \n\n\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/02/18835593.php SUMMARY:COULD THE 2020 ELECTION BE STOLEN? Webinar August 8th LOCATION:Live Interactive Online Webinar Saturday, August 8th URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/02/18835593.php DTSTART:20200808T170000Z DTEND:20200808T200000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR