We Decide: Arts, Culture and Voting Power

September 14, 2020, 1:00 - 2:30 PM

We Decide: Arts, Culture and Voting Power

Monday, September 14, 4:00-5:30pm EST, 3:00-4:30pm CT, 1:00-2:30pm PT

RSVP HERE!

A weblink to Zoom will be emailed to registrants in advance of the event.

Join us to learn about inspiring nonpartisan programs in both urban and rural communities related to the election and census. We look forward to sharing a space to hear more about what you are engaged in and to foster connections between artists and activists working to build voting power and be counted. Together, we will ask what work will continue after the election to ensure that change for the better actually takes place.

The call will feature presentations from Andrea Assaf, Dr. Rob “Biko” Baker, Trupania “Trap” Bonner, Amalia Deloney, and Savannah Romero, highlighting some of the following work:

• #HTownVotes, artist and cultural practitioner projects that will motivate youth and people of color in the Houston area to mobilize to vote

• #LouisianaCounts2020, a census education initiative providing Louisiana residents with information, trainings and a direct line to unheard voices

• Disinfo Defense League (DDL), a real-time, rapid response network to disrupt and dismantle manipulation and disinformation efforts targeting Black, Afro Latinx, and Latinx communities. DDL works across geography, generation, and gender to equip communities with tools, training, and tactics needed to combat racialized disinformation and win.

• IllumiNative’s Natives Vote, a campaign utilizing narrative and culture change strategies to mobilize Native American voters nationwide, as well as their partnership with Culture Surge to activate artists and create and distribute content to mobilize the vote

Sign up here if you want to share your nonpartisan civic engagement related to the elections or census on the call!

• We want to ensure that the virtual event is accessible to all. To make a specific request, please email raquel@usdac.org or reply to this email.
• Make sure you and everyone you know get counted. Fill out the census here.
• Register to vote here.
• National Voter Registration Day is September 22. Click here to find out more.

A special thank you to The Puffin Foundation for their critical support for this event.