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SUMMARY:For the People Act (HR.1/S.1) Unpacked
DESCRIPTION:The FPA has received enormous media attention. The partisan battles have been well covered. Most Americans favor fair and just voting rights and laws. Most want voting to be accessible and simplified. Most want money influence on our campaigns and elected representatives eliminated or at least moderated. This NFRPP event will cover the issues in detail and offer a way to move this needle in the direction of a flourishing democracy. \n\nTo RSVP for the Zoom Webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_B4IYtv-4R4WYK_UgQPQsdA \nTo watch the event on Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/NFRPP/live_videos/ \nThis event is from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm EST on July 22\, 2021 \n\nSpeakers: \nDaniel I. Weiner serves as deputy director of the Brennan Center’s Election Reform Program\, where he helps to lead the Center’s work on money in politics\, election security\, government ethics\, and other democracy and rule of law issues. He is the author or co-author of several nationally-recognized reports\, and also writes and comments regularly for media outlets such as the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, Slate\, MSNBC\, and NPR. He has provided policy advice and drafting assistance to lawmakers in Washington and across the country\, and delivered testimony and briefings to Congress\, state legislatures\, and federal and state agencies. \nWeiner previously served as senior counsel to Commissioner Ellen L. Weintraub at the Federal Election Commission\, including during her term as chair of the Commission in 2013. In this role\, Weiner assisted with managing the agency and advised the commissioner on a broad array of issues under the First Amendment\, federal campaign finance law\, and the Administrative Procedure Act. Before his service at the FEC\, Weiner practiced law in the Washington\, D.C. office of Jenner & Block\, LLP. At Jenner\, Weiner litigated cases at the trial and appellate levels\, counseled a wide variety of regulatory clients\, and maintained an active pro bono practice focused on LGBTQ+ rights. \nWeiner received his JD from Harvard Law School. He clerked for the Honorable Diana E. Murphy on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He graduated magna cum laude with honors from Brown University\, with a degree in history. Outside of his work at the Brennan Center\, Weiner presides over attorney discipline cases as chairman of a standing hearing committee for the District of Columbia Board on Professional Responsibility. \n  \nEdward B. Foley holds the Ebersold Chair in Constitutional Law at The Ohio State University\, where he also directs its election law program. He is a contributing opinion columnist for the Washington Post\, and for the 2020 election season\, he served as an NBC News election law analyst. \nHis most current book\, Presidential Elections and Majority Rule (Oxford University Press\, 2020)\, excavates the long-forgotten philosophical premises of how the Electoral College is supposed to work\, as revised by the Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution\, and then uses this historical analysis to provide a feasible basis for reform of state laws that would enable the Electoral College to operate according to majority-rule objectives it was designed to achieve. \nHis book Ballot Battles: The History of Disputed Elections in the United States (Oxford University Press\, 2016) was named Finalist for the David J. Langum\, Sr. Prize in American Legal History and listed as one of 100 “must-read books about law and social justice”. \nAs Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Project on Election Administration\, Foley drafted Principles of Law: Non-Precinct Voting and Resolution of Ballot-Counting Disputes\, which provides nonpartisan guidance for the resolution of election disputes.  He has also co-authored Election Law and Litigation: The Judicial Regulation of Politics (Wolters Kluwer 2014). \nDuring his fellowship at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy\, Development\, and the Rule of Law\, Foley wrote Due Process\, Fair Play and Excessive Partisanship: A New Principle of Judicial Review of Election Law\, 84 U. Chicago Law Review 655-758 (2017)\, which was cited in briefs in Gill v. Whitford and Benisek v. Lamone (the Supreme Court gerrymandering cases). In addition to his Washington Post opinion columns\, his op-eds and other essays have appeared in the New York Times\, the Atlantic\, Politico\, and Slate\, among other publications\, and he frequently writes online commentary on election law issues of public interest. \nFoley clerked for Chief Judge Patricia M. Wald of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Justice Harry Blackmun of the United States Supreme Court.  He has also served as State Solicitor in the office of Ohio’s Attorney General\, where he was responsible for the state’s appellate and constitutional litigation. \nProfessor Foley is a graduate of Columbia University School of Law and Yale College. \n\nEvent Co-sponsors: \n 
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SUMMARY:News Media and the Politics of Truth
DESCRIPTION:  \nWe face a misinformation crisis. Misinformation is at an all-time high and it’s crippling our democracy\, interfering with our ability to talk with each other\, to enact needed public policies\, and to bridge our bitter partisan divide. And there’s no end in sight. The forces propelling misinformation – power\, money\, fame\, and tribalism – are strong and enduring. \nMisinformation is asymmetrical. On nearly every issue\, it’s concentrated among those who identify with one or the other political party\, most often the Republican Party. The result is that party loyalists are living in different worlds. Their views of reality are so at odds that they might as well be inhabiting different planets. The longstanding notion that we are one nation may not be sustainable. \n\nTo RSVP for the Zoom Webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_voSr6-lKSr6YVB7m2aeklg \nTo watch the event on Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/NFRPP/live_videos/ \nThis event is from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm EST on June 24\, 2021 \n\nSpeakers: \nEric Alterman is Distinguished Professor of English\, Brooklyn College\, City University of New York. From 1995-2020\, he was The Nation’s “Liberal Media” columnist and is now a contributing writer to the magazine and also to The American Prospect\, where he writes the weekly “Altercation” newsletter. In the past\, he has been a senior fellow of the Center for American Progress\, the World Policy Institute and The Nation Institute\, a columnist for Rolling Stone\, Mother Jones\, The Guardian\, The Daily Beast\, The Forward\, Moment\, and the Sunday Express (London) and a contributed to The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, and Le Monde Diplomatique\, among other publications. He has also been named a Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University\, a Schusterman Foundation Fellow at Brandeis University\, a Fellow of the Society of American Historians\, and a member of the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. \nAlterman is the national bestseller What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News\, as well ten other books\, including\, most recently\, Lying in State: Why Presidents Lie and Why Trump is Worse. Alterman is also a winner of the George Orwell Prize\, the Stephen Crane Literary Award\, and the Mirror Award for media criticism (twice)\, He holds a Ph.D. in US history from Stanford\, an M.A. in international relations at Yale\, and a B.A. from Cornell.  He lives in Manhattan. He tweets at @eric­_­­alterman and has an open Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/alterman.eric \n  \nTom Patterson is Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He is the author of the recently published books\, Is the Republican Party Destroying Itself? and How America Lost Its Mind: The Assault on Reason That’s Crippling Our Democracy.  Earlier books include Out of Order\, which examined the media’s political role and received the American Political Science Association’s Graber Award as the best book of the decade in political communication. A Minnesota native\, he earned his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota\, where he studied after serving in the US Army Special Forces in Vietnam. \n  \nRobert Y. Shapiro\, the moderator\, is the Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government and International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He is currently the President of the Academy of Political Science and Editor of its journal\, Political Science Quarterly.  He specializes in American politics with research and teaching interests in public opinion\, policymaking\, political leadership\, the mass media\, and applications of statistical methods. He is co-author of The Rational Public: Fifty Years of Trends in Americans’ Policy Preferences (with Benjamin Page\, University of Chicago Press\, 1992) and Politicians Don’t Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness (with Lawrence Jacobs\, University of Chicago Press\, 2000). His most recent books are The Oxford Handbook of American Public Opinion and the Media(edited with Lawrence R. Jacobs\, Oxford University Press\, 2011)\, Selling Fear: Counterterrorism\, the Media\, and Public Opinion (with Brigitte L. Nacos and Yaeli Bloch-Elkon\, University of Chicago Press\, 2011\, and Presidential Selection and Democracy (co-edited with Demetrios James Caraley\, Academy of Political Science\, 2019). \n\nEvent Co-sponsors: \n 
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SUMMARY:Immigration: Myths/Realities and the Future
DESCRIPTION:Americans understand that we all are immigrants whether our ancestors arrived willingly for economic opportunity or sought refuge and asylum from persecution. Most of our families have stories about struggles as newcomers as well as the uplifting and positive stories of becoming successful Americans. Immigration today is still fraught with conflict and controversy. To arrive at the policies and reforms that work for both human and national interest requires an understanding of what is occurring with our current immigration challenges. Our distinguished experts will walk us through this difficult process. \nSpeakers: \nSteven Hubbard\, Ph.D. is a data scientist at the New American Economy where he conducts research and data visualization projects related to how immigration impacts our economy. Most recently\, he was a Zolberg Fellow at The New School and International Rescue Committee where he conducted research on Syrian refugees living in Jordan. With a deep interest in photography\, he recognizes the importance of visualization to communicate complex data problems and facilitate data driven decision making. Hubbard has over 20 years of experience in college teaching\, research\, and administration at New York University\, The University of Iowa\, and Hamline University. \n  \n \nJennifer Hunt is Professor of Economics at Rutgers University. From 2013-2015\, while on leave from Rutgers\, she served first as Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of Labor\, then as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Microeconomic Analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Prior to joining Rutgers in 2011\, she held positions at McGill University\, the University of Montreal\, and Yale University. Hunt is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London. Her current research focuses on the geographic diffusion of technology adoption\, while past research has also encompassed immigration\, wage inequality\, unemployment\, the science and engineering workforce\, the transition from communism\, crime and corruption.  She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard and her Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. \n  \nDouglas S. Massey is the Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs\, with a joint appointment in The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. A member of the National Academy of Sciences\, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and the American Philosophical Society\, he is the current president of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and is a member of the Council of the National Academy of Sciences and co-editor of the Annual Review of Sociology. Massey’s research focuses on international migration\, race and housing\, discrimination\, education\, urban poverty\, stratification\, and Latin America\, especially Mexico. He is the author\, most recently\, of Brokered Boundaries: Constructing Immigrant Identity in Anti-Immigrant Times\, coauthored with Magaly Sanchez and Published by the Russell Sage Foundation. \n  \nCarlos Vargas-Ramos\, the moderator\, is the Center for Puerto Rican Studies’ Director for Public Policy\, External and Media Relations\, and Development.  He is also an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University\, where he teaches on immigration\, race and ethnicity\, and urban politics. As a social scientist\, he has worked on the impact of migration on Puerto Rican political behavior\, political attitudes\, and orientations\, as well as on issues of racial identity.  A political scientist by training\, Dr. Vargas-Ramos is co-editor\, along with Edwin Meléndez\, of Puerto Ricans at the Dawn of the New Millennium\, and author\, among others of “The role of state actors in Puerto Rico’s long century of migration\,” in Anke Birkenmaier\, editor\, Caribbean Migrations: The Legacies of Colonialism (2020)\,  “Puerto Ricans: Citizens and Migrants— A Cautionary Tale\,” which appeared in Identities: Global Studies in Identity and Power\, 20(6): 665-688\, (2013)\, and “Migrating race: migration and racial identification among Puerto Ricans\,” was published in Ethnic and Racial Studies. 37(3): 383-404 (2014). \n  \n\nTo RSVP for the Zoom Webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_w4pgt8KLRg6CMd2fzJiJAg \nTo watch the event on Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/NFRPP/live_videos/ \nThis event is from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm EST on June 17\, 2021 \n\nEvent Co-sponsors: \n\n    
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SUMMARY:JOBS: The Future of Jobs in America
DESCRIPTION:  \nMuch controversy and discussion are taking place about what the future job market will look like. Many Americans are anxious over the uncertainties and want to know.  Can manufacturing return? Is innovation key to the future? What role will technology and artificial intelligence play? Where do education\, government\, and entrepreneurialism fit in? What about unions? What jobs will fade away and what is likely to replace them? How can we prepare for a viable prosperous job future? \n\nSpeakers: \nNicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute\, a contributing editor of City Journal\, and a columnist at the New York Post. She writes on urban economics and finance. Gelinas is a CFA charterholder and the author of After the Fall: Saving Capitalism from Wall Street—and Washington (2011). \nGelinas has published analysis and opinion pieces in the New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, Los Angeles Times\, and other publications. Before coming to City Journal\, she was a business journalist for Thomson Financial\, where she covered the international syndicated-loan and private-debt markets. Gelinas holds a B.A. in English literature from Tulane University. \n  \nDr. Michael Mandel is chief economic strategist at the Progressive Policy Institute in Washington DC and senior fellow at the Wharton School (UPenn). He was chief economist at BusinessWeek prior to its purchase by Bloomberg. \nWith experience spanning policy\, academics\, and business\, Dr. Mandel has helped lead the public conversation about the economic and business impact of technology for the past two decades. Mandel’s seminal analysis showing how eCommerce creates jobs and reduces inequality was featured by the Wall Street Journal\, New York Times\, Washington Post\, Boston Globe\, and Financial Times\, among others. \nMandel argues that Americans suffer from too little innovation\, rather than too much. More innovation\, especially in “physical” industries such as manufacturing\, agriculture\, and healthcare\, will raise wages and create more good jobs. His current work focuses on the economic benefits of digital manufacturing; job creation by eCommerce and 5G; pharmaceutical pricing and innovation; and regulation of cross-border data flows. He spearheads PPI’s “Investment Heroes” annual report and tracks App Economy jobs around the world.\nMandel has written four books\, including the optimistic Rational Exuberance. His economics textbook\, Economics: The Basics\, is in its fourth edition. He received a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and taught at NYU’s Stern School of Business. \n  \nPeter Coy\, moderator/discussant\, is the economics editor for Bloomberg Businessweek and covers a wide range of economic issues. He also holds the position of senior writer. \n  \n  \n  \n\nTo RSVP for the Zoom Webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aYub7q_QQUawE1WDrlZYlQ \nTo watch the event on Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/NFRPP/live_videos/ \nThis event is from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm EST on May 20th\, 2021 \n\nEvent Co-sponsors: \n\n    
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SUMMARY:Post 2020: The Future of Democracy
DESCRIPTION:The year 2020 will remain in the American conscience as the year of two major challenges: the COVID virus and the BIG Lie undermining voter confidence in the 2020 election results. Both were fraught with polarized thinking and positions. It is not partisan to declare that there was no voter fraud. Every election expert whether Republican or Democrat\, plus the various Courts ruled the elections were properly conducted. What could be more clear? Yet\, millions of Americans deny the results of the presidential election including some in Congress. What does this mean for the future of Democracy? Can America get back on track and what will it take? \n\nLarry M. Bartels holds the May Werthan Shayne Chair of Public Policy and Social Science at Vanderbilt University. His scholarship and teaching focus broadly on American democracy\, including public opinion\, electoral politics\, public policy\, and political representation. His most recent books are Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age (2nd ed.) and Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (with Christopher Achen). He is also the author of numerous scholarly articles and of occasional pieces in the New York Times\, Washington Post\, Los Angeles Times\, Salon\, and other media outlets. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, the American Academy of Political and Social Science\, the National Academy of Sciences\, and the American Philosophical Society. \n  \nSusan Herbst\, discussant/moderator\, is University Professor of Political Science and President Emeritus at the University of Connecticut. Herbst served as the 15th President of the University of Connecticut from 2011 to 2019\, and returned to the faculty of Political Science in 2019.  Prior to her appointment to the presidency\, Herbst served as provost\, dean and department chair at multiple universities across the nation. Born in New York City and raised in Peekskill\, N.Y.\, she received her B.A. in Political Science from Duke University\, and her Ph.D. from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication.  Herbst joined Northwestern University as an assistant professor in 1989 and remained there until 2003.  She is a scholar of public opinion\, media\, and American politics.  Her new book\, forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press is A Troubled Birth:  The 1930s and American Public Opinion. \n\nTo RSVP for the Zoom Webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1B3FSRkNRvKyB04awYycZQ \nTo watch the event on Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/NFRPP/live_videos/ \nThis event is from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm EST on April 15\, 2021 \n\nEvent Co-sponsors: \n\n    
URL:https://www.nfrpp.org/event/post-2020-the-future-of-democracy/
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SUMMARY:Free Speech:  Testing the Limits of the First Amendment
DESCRIPTION:This timely program will address language as a weapon\, hate speech\, incitement\, the internet\, and how the first amendment is being tested. \nSpeakers: \nDr. Kurt Braddock is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at American University\, where he is also a faculty fellow at the Polarization and Extremism Research Innovation Lab (PERIL). Dr. Braddock’s research investigates the intersection between language and political violence\, with a particular focus on how extremist groups use persuasive techniques to recruit and radicalize vulnerable audiences. His work has been published in several top-tier communication and security journals\, and his first book\, Weaponized Words: The Strategic Role of Persuasion in Violent Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization was published by Cambridge University Press in 2020. Dr. Braddock advises several national and international organizations\, including the U.S. Department of Homeland Security\, the U.S. Department of State\, the U.K. Home Office\, and the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism. \n  \nRonald K. Chen is a University Professor\, Distinguished Professor of Law\, and Judge Leonard I. Garth Scholar at Rutgers Law School. He was dean of the School of Law–Newark and the first co-dean of Rutgers Law School resident in Newark from 2013-2018. He is the former Public Advocate of New Jersey. He teaches first-year Contracts\, Federal Courts\, and litigates civil rights and civil liberties cases in the Constitutional Rights Clinic. Prof. Chen serves as a General Counsel and a member of the National Board of the ACLU.\n \n  \n  \n  \nPerry Dane\, the Moderator\, is a Professor of Law at the Rutgers Law School. He is a graduate of Yale College and the Yale Law School. Professor Dane was previously on the faculty of the Yale Law School and served as a law clerk to William J. Brennan\, Jr.\, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. His research and teaching interests include constitutional law\, comparative constitutionalism\, religion and the law\, and legal pluralism. He is a frequent speaker on church-state questions and other current issues. \n  \n  \n\nTo RSVP for the Zoom Webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zb3m8JvAQxaPF3-Vtjx15w \nTo watch the event on Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/NFRPP/live_videos/ \n\nEvent Co-sponsors: \n    
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SUMMARY:The Electoral College: Is it time to replace it?
DESCRIPTION:Every four years\, millions of Americans wonder why they choose their presidents through the Electoral College\, an arcane institution that permits the loser of the popular vote to become president and narrows campaigns to swing states. Most Americans have long preferred a national popular vote\, and Congress has attempted on many occasions to alter or scuttle the Electoral College. Several of these efforts—one as recently as 1970—came very close to winning approval. Yet this controversial system remains. \n  \nDr. Kyle T. Kattelman received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Missouri in 2013. He has been an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Fairleigh Dickinson University since the Fall of 2015\, having served previously as a Mizzou Advantage Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Missouri and a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science & Public Administration at Mississippi State University. He teaches a wide variety of courses at Fairleigh Dickinson\, including Terrorism\, International Relations\, Comparative Politics\, and American Government. His main research interests concern national security\, terrorism and counterterrorism\, and coalition stability. Recent publications include work on the success of coalitions in the War on Terror and cooperation over participation in counterterrorist endeavors. He also researches in American politics and publishes work on the effects of state legislatures on interest group dynamics. \nAlexander Keyssar is Stirling Professor of History and Social Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and the author of numerous books\, including Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? (released July 2020) and The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States\, a 2001 Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the Beveridge Award from the American Historical Association for the best book in U.S. history. He has also taught at Duke University\, MIT\, and Brandeis University.  He teaches courses at Harvard on American political institutions\, the comparative history of democracies\, and the value of historical thinking for policy makers. \n  \n  \n\nTo RSVP for the Zoom Webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jMLIyUKJQC6FWLtveZN9SQ \nTo watch the event on Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/NFRPP/live_videos/ \n\nEvent Co-sponsor:
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SUMMARY:A Nation Divided and Polarized: Can We Discuss Solutions?
DESCRIPTION:A divided and polarized nation can be toxic to democracy. What has fostered the divide and can a bridge to civility and common ground be achieved? Join our distinguished experts for an important discussion that is critical to our nation’s future. \n  \nLaurel Harbridge-Yong is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. She received her Ph.D. in 2009 from Stanford University. Her research explores a range of questions surrounding partisan conflict and the difficulty of reaching bipartisan agreements and legislative compromises in American politics. Her research spans projects on the U.S. Congress\, state legislatures\, and the mass public. She is the author of two books – Is Bipartisanship Dead? Policy Agreement and Agenda-Setting in the House of Representatives (Cambridge University Press\, 2015) and Rejecting Compromise: Legislators’ Fear of Primary Voters (with Sarah Anderson and Daniel Butler\, Cambridge University Press\, 2020) – and numerous journal articles. \n  \n  \n \nWill Friedman is a Senior Fellow at Public Agenda. He previously served as president of the organization from 2011 to 2020. Will joined Public Agenda in 1994\, became Associate Director of Research in 1996\, was the founding director of its public engagement department in 1997\, established Public Agenda’s Center for Advances in Public Engagement (now the Yankelovich Center) in 2007. He is the author or co-author of Reframing Framing\, Deliberative Democracy and the Problem of Scope\, Deliberative Democracy and the Problem of Power\, and\, with the late Public Agenda co-founder Daniel Yankelovich\, Toward Wiser Public Judgment. Will has been the driving force behind Public Agenda’s Hidden Common Ground Initiative\, a research\, journalism\, public engagement\, and storytelling enterprise that seeks to disrupt the narrative of a hopelessly divided America. \n  \nMíriam Juan-Torres is More in Common’s Global Senior Researcher. She conducts research on public opinion\, polarisation\, and the drivers of support for authoritarian populism by combining quantitative and qualitative methods with academic work from various social science disciplines. \nA multidisciplinary researcher\, Míriam has also worked as an Associate Professor of Public International Law at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and has conducted field studies around the world. In West Africa\, Míriam worked for UNHCR in Ghana with refugees in protracted situations and studied processes and mechanisms implemented to prevent electoral-related violence. In Colombia\, Míriam worked for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on victims’ rights and legal cases opened against human rights activists and communal leaders. \nMíriam is a licensed lawyer in Spain\, where she worked in public law for the firm Baker & McKenzie. She holds a master’s degree in Global Affairs from Yale University and a Law degree from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. \n  \nRobert Shapiro\, the moderator\, is the President of the Academy of Political Science and Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nTo RSVP for the Zoom Webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rxjUtNl_RE2WJhIOPurswQ \nTo watch the event on Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/NFRPP/live_videos/ \n\nEvent Co-sponsor:
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SUMMARY:Exploring the Misinformation Landscape
DESCRIPTION:The media news landscape is difficult to navigate and is fueled with false and manipulated information. Yet\, to be a knowledgeable voter and engaged citizen requires credible trusted information and journalism. This program will explore journalism and news literacy and navigating what many describe as a treacherous news landscape. Using election-related examples the speakers will cover the tools for fact-checking\, the reasons things go viral\, verification\, debunking strategies as well as the role of journalists and journalism. \nOur speakers: \nJohn Silva is the News Literacy Project’s senior director of education and training.  He joined NLP in March 2017 with 13 years of experience as a middle and high social studies teacher with Chicago Public Schools He first became involved with news literacy in 2014 when his students engaged in NLP’s original classroom program.  A U.S. Marine Corps veteran\, John spent several years in corporate telecommunications positions before deciding to become a teacher. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a bachelor’s degree in the teaching of history and has a master’s degree in education\, with a concentration in e-learning\, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He became a National Board Certified Teacher in 2012. \n  \nKyle Pope\, editor\, and publisher of the Columbia Journalism Review. Previously\, he worked as an editor at Condé Nast\, The Wall Street Journal\, and The New York Observer. \n  \n  \n  \n \nJane Sasseen\, moderator/discussant is the executive director of the McGraw Center for Business Journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York. The Center provides grants and editorial support to journalists working on investigative and enterprise stories on critical economic and financial issues. Previously\, she was the senior editor in charge of News and Washington bureau chief for BusinessWeek\, editor-in-chief of politics for Yahoo News\, and the Paris bureau chief of International Management magazine. She is a recipient of the Gerald Loeb Award\, the top prize for financial journalism in America. \n  \n\nTo RSVP for the Zoom Webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fTrhfq6gTjmSHKeqxpctdw \nTo watch the event on Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/NFRPP/live_videos/ \n\nEvent Sponsor:
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201014T193000
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SUMMARY:Dog whistle racism\, race-class fusion politics\, and our future
DESCRIPTION:Over the last half-century\, the Republican Party has exploited social divisions—and racism in particular—to win power\, and then has ruled primarily on behalf of the ultra-wealthy. Meanwhile\, the Democratic Party has struggled to respond effectively and has even stooped to imitation. In this conversation\, Ian Haney López lays out the history of dog-whistle politics and Donald Trump’s place within it. Then he suggests a clear way forward. His research—discussed in his most recent book\, Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class\, Winning Elections\, and Saving America—demonstrates that dog whistle politics can be defeated. Drawing on these results\, this lecture assesses the looming 2020 presidential election. \n\nIan Haney López is the originator of the race-class approach to beating dog-whistle politics. A law professor at UC Berkeley who specializes in Critical Race Theory\, his focus for the last decade has been on the use of racism as a class weapon in electoral politics\, and how to respond. In Dog Whistle Politics (2014)\, he detailed the fifty-year history of coded racism in American politics. He then co-chaired the AFL-CIO’s Advisory Council on Racial and Economic Justice and co-founded the Race-Class Narrative Project. In Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class\, Winning Elections\, and Saving America (2019)\, Ian explains Trump’s complex relationship with dog-whistling and further develops the race-class response. \nIan is the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at the University of California\, Berkeley. He has published four books and two anthologies and lives in Richmond\, California. \n  \nRoger Berkowitz\, moderator\, Academic Director\, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and Professor of Politics\, Philosophy\, and Human Rights at Bard College. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAdrian Costa\, a student representative\, is a Senior majoring in both Political Studies and Theatre & Performance at Bard College \n  \n  \n  \n\nTo RSVP for the Zoom Webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Wg8auw8TRhqOtE_cwMrGhg \nTo watch the event on Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/NFRPP/live_videos/ \n\nEvent Sponsors: \n   
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200924T193000
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SUMMARY:Understanding Systemic Racism and Challenges for Policy Change
DESCRIPTION:Racism has been the underside of America throughout our history. The manner with which we have treated Racism has led to our current moment. How we acknowledge and confront Racism today will have a major impact on our future. This means examining our institutional challenges\, class struggles\, and more\, important\, ourselves. \nComing to terms with our history\, finding the strength and courage to make a change will be discussed by our thoughtful distinguished experts. \n  \n\n \nDavid Dante Troutt is a Distinguished Professor of Law and Justice John J. Francis Scholar at Rutgers Law School-Newark where he also directs the Center on Law\, Inequality\, and Metropolitan Equity (CLiME).  Current CLiME research initiatives examine gentrification\, equitable growth strategies in Newark\, and place-based disparities in the context of fair housing\, psychological trauma among school children\, child welfare\, and other areas of institutional inquiry.  He emphasizes using the law and interdisciplinary study to understand structural inequality and to formulate legal and policy reform strategies.  Troutt teaches tort law\, intellectual property\, and a multidisciplinary approach to racial and economic inequality called metropolitan equity (land use\, civil rights\, state and local government\, housing\, and poverty law).  His most recent book\, The Price of Paradise: The Costs of Inequality and a Vision for a More Equitable America (NYU Press)\, examines six cultural assumptions that have informed legal rules and public policy across American communities to reveal how they contribute to structural inequality at a time of immense demographic change. \n  \n​Alex S. Vitale is a Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College and a Visiting Professor at London Southbank University. He has spent the last 30 years writing about policing and consults both police departments and human rights organizations internationally. Prof. Vitale is the author of City of Disorder: How the Quality of Life Campaign Transformed New York Politics and The End of Policing. His academic writings on policing have appeared in Policing and Society\, Police Practice and Research\, Mobilization\, and Contemporary Sociology. He is also a frequent essayist\, whose writings have been published in The NY Times\, Washington Post\, The Guardian\, The Nation\, Vice News\, Fortune\, and USA Today. He has also appeared on CNN\, MSNBC\, CNBC\, NPR\, PBS\, Democracy Now\, and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. \n  \n\nTo RSVP for the Zoom webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vo6Jw95nRF6M2hvBz_9GCg \nTo watch the event on Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/NFRPP/live_videos/ \n\nEvent Sponsors: \n   
URL:https://www.nfrpp.org/event/understanding-systemic-racism-and-challenges-for-policy-change/
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CATEGORIES:upcoming
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200723T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200723T213000
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SUMMARY:Policing: The Change America is Awaiting
DESCRIPTION:Americans have taken up the fight for fairness and equity in the policing of their communities. The numerous stakeholders for change and reform are debating concerns for what it will take to create model policing that serves the interests of our communities and policing as well. Three experts will help “unpack” this long-festering issue. They bring to our discussion experience in policing\, activism\, research\, and solutions they believe essential for reform and change. \n  \nSpeakers: \nANDREW COHEN is a senior editor at the Marshall Project and a Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice. A former senior legal analyst for CBS News and 60 Minutes\, he has covered law and justice in America since 1997 online\, in print\, and on radio and television. \nDR. EVELYN GARCIA is a scholar-activist with over 35 years of experience in the field of policing. She is currently the Senior Lecturer in the School of Criminal Justice\, Political Science and International Studies at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her many publications center on ethical issues in criminal justice. \nDR. JASON WILLIAMS is an Assistant Professor of Justice Studies at Montclair State University and author of “Black Males and the Criminal Justice System.” A dedicated criminologist\, he is deeply involved in issues of racial disparity and mistreatment. \nSARAH RYLEY\, the moderator\, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist. Her data-driven stories on policing have appeared in New York Daily News\, ProPublica\, BuzzFeed News\, and The Trace\, and have triggered numerous reforms\, including the passage of two-dozen laws in New York City. \nSee FLYER for more information. \n  \n\nTo RSVP for the Zoom webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jZP4R1fxQYaUa60eaqbrMA \nTo watch the event on Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/NFRPP/live_videos/ \n\n  \nMany thanks to our co-sponsors who make these events possible:
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200611T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200611T213000
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SUMMARY:Stop the Madness! Why the US Government Increases Inequality in Good Times and Bad
DESCRIPTION:Economic inequality is a central theme in the Presidential campaign. Progressives have proposed that one way to reduce inequality is with a tax on the accumulated wealth of the richest Americans\, yet an influential theory in economics\, endorsed by the right\, argues that the ideal tax on wealth is zero. Is a wealth tax a good idea\, a bad idea\, or both? \n  \nProfessor Eric Schoenberg is a former investment banker\, a member of the Patriotic Millionaires\, and has taught at Wharton\, Columbia Business School\, and NYU before taking his current position in Columbia’s Psychology Department.  His multiple video appearances on tax policy have garnered more than 40 million views online\, including this encounter with Fox News host Stuart Varney:  https://www.facebook.com/PatrioticMillionaires/videos/1643177482371735/?id=126877 \n  \n  \n  \nPeter Coy\, the moderator\, is Economics Editor of Bloomberg Businessweek. He writes on a wide range of economic\, social\, and financial issues. He is a regular contributor to the magazine’s “Remarks” column. Mr. Coy came to Businessweek from the Associated Press in New York\, where he served as a business news writer since 1985. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nTo RSVP for the Zoom webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_A5-Km3KHRqeIF1iZfcjAyw \nTo watch the event on Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/NFRPP/live/ \n(Webinar access is limited to the first 100 RSVPs\, and will include the ability to ask questions.  If you only want to watch the event\, please use the Facebook Live link on the night of the event.)
URL:https://www.nfrpp.org/event/tax-deadline-has-passed-but-tax-issues-have-not-are-you-a-winner-or-a-loser-why/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200528T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200528T213000
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SUMMARY:COVID-19: The Ongoing Financial Implications and the Long-Term Financial Outlook
DESCRIPTION:William D. Cohan is the bestselling author of\, among others\, Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World and House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street. He is a special correspondent at Vanity Fair and writer-at-large for AirMail. He also writes opinion columns for The New York Times. \n  \n  \n  \nPeter Coy\, the moderator\, is the economics editor for Bloomberg Businessweek and covers a wide range of economic issues. He also holds the position of senior writer. \n  \n  \n  \nTo RSVP for the Zoom webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Km9Ts0C2QH20IATXJ133Xg \nTo watch the event on Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/NFRPP/live/ \n(Webinar access is limited to the first 100 RSVPs\, and will include the ability to ask questions.  If you only want to watch the event\, please use the Facebook Live link on the night of the event.)
URL:https://www.nfrpp.org/event/covid-19-the-ongoing-financial-implications-and-the-long-term-financial-outlook/
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CATEGORIES:upcoming
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200521
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200523
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SUMMARY:Dangerous Speech Pre and Post COVID-19: Countering Online Hatred while Protecting Freedom of Expression
DESCRIPTION:When you see something hateful online\, do you respond? If so\, why? And how\, exactly? Everyone says “don’t feed the trolls.” But blocking\, ignoring\, and deleting can only go so far – and often serve to further polarize and isolate us. People around the world are choosing instead to actively resist hatred online by engaging with the trolls\, alone and in groups\, in different innovative ways. This talk will draw on 18 months of research conducted by Cathy Buerger\, Director of Research at the Dangerous Speech Project. The talk will discuss the challenges of responding to hatred online as well as best practices gleaned from this research. \nSpeaker: \nCATHY BUERGER is the Director of Research at the Dangerous Speech Project (DSP)\, a Washington\, DC-based NGO that studies the relationship between speech and violence. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Connecticut\, where her research examined how civil society activists in Ghana work together to support positive norms and to uphold human rights. Her current research at the DSP focuses on civil society responses to dangerous and hateful speech online. She is a Research Affiliate of UConn’s Economic and Social Rights Research Group\, Managing Editor of the Journal of Human Rights\, and an Editor for the Teaching Human Rights Database. \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\nThis event is from 7:30pm to 9:30pm on May 21\, 2020.\n\n\n\n\nTo RSVP for the Zoom webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hscTspyqRj6q-G0kDXwRDw \nTo watch the event on Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/NFRPP/live/ \n(Webinar access is limited to the first 100 RSVPs\, and will include the ability to ask questions.  If you only want to watch the event\, please use the Facebook Live link on the night of the event.) \n 
URL:https://www.nfrpp.org/event/dangerous-speech-countering-online-hatred-while-protecting-freedom-of-expression/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200423T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200423T213000
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SUMMARY:Transforming Our Democracy with Ranked Choice Voting
DESCRIPTION:Ranked-choice voting (RCV) is a simple solution with a big impact. It promotes majority support\, contributes to more civil and issue-oriented campaigns\, gives voters more choices\, and produces a more reflective democracy. Amidst widespread frustration with politics among both voters and elected officials\, it’s no surprise that ranked-choice voting is gaining momentum across the country as a win-win solution that strengthens our democracy. \nThe RCV movement is poised to continue its momentum. BIlls in Congress would establish RCV across all congressional elections\, with both the Ranked Choice Voting Act and the more comprehensive Fair Representation Act garnering growing political and intellectual support. State activity is growing. FairVote President Rob Richie will discuss ranked-choice voting’s transformative impact and what it will take to bring RCV to states like New Jersey. \nSpeaker: \nRob Richie has been the leader of FairVote since co-founding the organization in 1992 and was named president and CEO in 2018. He has played a key role in advancing\, winning\, and implementing electoral reforms at the local and state levels. Richie has been involved in helping to develop\, win\, and implement: ranked-choice voting in states and more than 20 cities\, fair representation voting systems in numerous Voting Rights Act cases\, the National Popular Vote plan in 16 states\, and voter access proposals like voter pre-registration and automatic voter registration. \n  \nTo watch the event on Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/NFRPP/posts/2799065263502450 \nTo RSVP for the Zoom webinar\, go to https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QxzwveIkRE2KeZI5ji8Uog \n(Webinar access is limited to the first 100 RSVPs\, and will include the ability to ask questions.  If you only want to watch the event\, please use the Facebook Live link on the night of the event.)
URL:https://www.nfrpp.org/event/transforming-our-democracy-with-ranked-choice-voting/
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CATEGORIES:upcoming
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