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DESCRIPTION:SF Gray Panthers Monthly Meeting: \nThe Threat to Democracy & What We Can 
 Do About It:\nElections & Voting Rights, \nTuesday,  April 19, 2022, 1-3 
 pm\nZoom: address below  
 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86398037030?pwd=MzlLVVJUUHd4d2cwTjNjRmI4eU1WUT09; 
  Meeting ID: 863 9803 7030, Passcode: 709990\n\nGet an update on the SF 
 redistricting controversy;  then hear 2 speakers on the threat to democracy 
 nationally;  Q&A; and our new SFGP website preview!\n\nSpeakers:\n\nTes 
 Welborn, a board member, community leader and activist in the Haight 
 Ashbury Neighborhood Council is one of the organizers of a coalition of SF 
 organizations behind the "Community Unity Map", which was made by and for 
 marginalized communities of SF.  She will give us an update on the work 
 they are doing to get a redistricting map that prioritizes vulnerable 
 communities to maintain or increase their voting power.  This is a local 
 struggle for democracy in SF, in which the SF Gray Panthers are also 
 actively involved. Find out what you can do to ensure SF communities of 
 interest are not divided and/or weakened by any decisions of the Task Force 
 that might undermine our ability to elect members of the Board of 
 Supervisors who are accountable to us!\n\nJan Ben Dor, a Gray Panther 
 leader from Ann Arbor Michigan is a key organizer of a Michigan ballot 
 measure to make voting a fundamental right in their state constitution. How 
 about doing that in California? \n\nShervin Aazami  Progressive candidate 
 for (CA-32), MPH, MPA, will share his ideas for democracy reform . He's 
 part of a wave of progressive candidates challenging incumbents and the 
 stars quo.  Could that wave be successful and powerful enough to strengthen 
 our democracy?\n\nNOTE:  Recommended viewing before the forum (But not 
 required!):  "The Battle for Voting Rights and the 2022 Midterms", an 
 online recording of "...the Reverend William Barber and Janai Nelson, the 
 president and director-counsel of the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and 
 Educational Fund, [who] join the New Yorker staff writer Jelani Cobb to 
 discuss gerrymandering, Republican efforts to disenfranchise voters of 
 color, and how the battle for ballot access in states such as Georgia could 
 alter American democracy in the decade to come.\n\nFor a complete 
 description of the program go to https://bit.ly/SFGP-Elections\n\nPlease 
 join our SF Gray Panther meeting on 
 Zoom\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86398037030?pwd=MzlLVVJUUHd4d2cwTjNjRmI4eU1WUT09\nMeeting 
 ID: 863 9803 7030   Passcode: 709990\nOne-tap link for mobile phones:  
 +16699009128,,86398037030#,,,,*709990#\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/04/17/18849104.php
SUMMARY:Threats to Democracy, Elections and Voting Rights
LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86398037030?pwd=MzlLVVJUUHd4d2cwTjNjRmI4eU1WUT09\nMeeting 
 ID: 863 9803 7030   Passcode: 709990\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/04/17/18849104.php
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