Suppressed and Sabotaged: The Fight to Vote July 7th @ 6 pm (Please note date change!)
Suppressed and Sabotaged: The Fight to Vote Film Screening & Panel Discussion Thursday, July 7th @ 6 pm (PLEASE NOTE: Date moved to not compete with Jan 6th hearings)
Join Fix Democracy First and Meaningful Movies Project for a special screening of Brave New Film’sSuppressed and Sabotaged: The Fight to Vote on Thursday, July 7th @ 6 pm PT.
Speakers/Panelists will include:
- Andrea Miller,Executive Director, Center for Common Ground
- Dave Daley,Senior Fellow, FairVote
- Shenita Chism,Social Justice Director, National Children’s Campaign
with a special film introduction by Robert Greenwald, Producer & Director, Brave New Films
View trailer @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RhrbEh-osI
Suppressed and Sabotaged: The Fight to Vote (2022), by Robert Greenwald, is a powerful documentary about the growing threat of voter suppression and election sabotage to our 2022 midterm elections. In 2021, 19 states passed 34 new voter laws following the Big Lie of the 2020 election. The film focuses on this recent wave of voter suppression and subversion laws being enacted in states, and how the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial race between Stacey Abrams and Brian Kemp provides a blueprint for today’s voter suppression laws across the country.
Suppressed and Sabotaged: The Fight to Vote now includes perspectives from voters in Arizona, Florida, Texas, and Georgia that highlight how these new laws will affect their constitutional right to vote. Suppression tactics covered in the film include: Registration hurdles; Polling place closures; Voter purges; Missing absentee ballots; Extreme wait times at polling locations; Exact match disqualifications; New vote by mail limitations; Changes to ballot collection and drop off; and more. Voter suppression laws disproportionately affect American Students, Senior Citizens, Black, Indigenous, Latino, and People of Color from casting their ballots. Suppressed and Sabotaged 2022 is a call to action against the calculated, unconstitutional and racist attacks intended to suppress the right to vote in America.
Event Sponsors: Brave New Films; Fix Democracy First; Meaningful Movies Project; Mt Baker Meaningful Movies; West Seattle Meaningful Movies; Meaningful Movies Tacoma; Meaningful Movies Bellevue; Meaningful Movies at First Church