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SUMMARY:Tent Talk: What is Rural America Thinking with Sarah Jaynes and Jess Piper
DESCRIPTION:BigTent USA was thrilled to welcome Sarah Jaynes\, Executive Director of Rural Democracy Initiative  and Jess Piper\, Executive Director of Blue Missouri. Our conversation focused on rural America and what voters are feeling about the Harris/Walz ticket\, the November elections and their future. \nThe Rural Democracy Initiative is driving a growing array of organizing efforts in  states like Michigan\, Pennsylvania\, North Carolina\, Montana\, and Arizona\, where new work is underway to engage rural voters\, speak to their concerns\, and otherwise show up in places that many Democrats have written off. RDI is building power and shared prosperity across diverse communities in rural areas and small cities. Their investments target civic infrastructure in small towns and cities to influence public sentiment\, electoral outcomes\, and redistricting procedures. Their main goal is to provide support for rural working people\, therefore transforming the landscape of rural America for future generations. \nOUR SPEAKER \nSarah Jaynes\, Executive Director Rural Democracy Initiative \nSarah grew up in a small town on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state and began her career organizing on climate issues in rural communities. Since then\, she’s been a trailblazer in the progressive movement. Sarah led the development of one of the first state progressive donor networks—Washington’s Progress Alliance—and has coached emerging donor alliances from Alaska to New Hampshire to Alabama as a senior advisor to Committee on States. Sarah is recognized for her expertise leading innovative campaigns integrating field experiments\, digital platforms\, and transformative narrative\, and manages to stay relentlessly optimistic and obsessed with winning. \nJess Piper is a mother to five and grandmother to three and lives on a small farm on the Missouri/Iowa border. She was born and raised in rural America. She was an American Literature teacher for 16 years. After the 2016 election of Trump\, Jess became politically active. Jess ran for office in 2022 for State Representative in HD1 in Northwest Missouri. Jess wrires a well known newsletter: The View from Rural Missouri
URL:https://bigtentusa.org/event/rural-democracy/
LOCATION:BigTent Zoom Room
CATEGORIES:Tent Talks,BigTent Events,Preserving Democracy
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SUMMARY:How to Defend Against an Authoritarian Presidency
DESCRIPTION:We were thrilled to host a conversation with Brennan Center for Justice Senior Advisor Barton Gellman and national security expert Rosa Brooks\, moderated by journalist Kimberly Atkins Stohr. They discussed the tabletop “what if” exercises conducted this summer\, highlighting the need for defenders of democracy to prepare more robustly to mitigate potential threats of a second Trump Presidency to our constitutional government. While not all abuses can be entirely prevented\, there are important steps we must take to combat these threats. \nABOUT OUR SPEAKERS \nBarton Gellman is Senior Advisor to the president and executive director of the Brennan Center. His focus is on building safeguards against threats to democracy in the 2024 election and in the presidential administration to come in 2025. Gellman joined the Brennan Center from The Atlantic\, where he was an award-winning staff writer. He is the author most recently of Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State. Gellman has received multiple professional honors including; the 2008 and 2014 Pulitzer Prizes\, two George Polk Awards\, two Overseas Press Club awards\, two Emmy awards for a PBS Frontline documentary\, Harvard’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. \nRosa Brooks holds the Scott K. Ginsburg Chair in Law and Policy at Georgetown University Law Center\, where she has served as a tenured professor since 2006. She also serves as Georgetown Law’s Associate Dean for Centers and Institutes and as co-director of Georgetown’s Center on Innovations in Public Safety. She is also an Adjunct Senior Scholar at West Point’s Modern War Institute\, an ASU Future of War Senior Fellow at New America and a founder of the Leadership Council for Women in National Security (LCWINS). From April 2016 to November 2020\, she served as a reserve police officer with the Washington\, DC Metropolitan Police Department. \nKimberly Atkins Stohr is a senior opinion writer and columnist at The Boston Globe. She is also an MSNBC contributor\, a frequent panelist on NBC’s “Meet the Press\,” and co-host of the weekly Politicon legal news podcast #SistersInLaw. Previously\, Kim was the inaugural columnist for The Emancipator\, a collaboration between The Boston Globe and Boston University’s Center for Anti Racist Research that reframes the conversation about racial justice and equality.
URL:https://bigtentusa.org/event/gellman/
LOCATION:BigTent Zoom Room
CATEGORIES:BigTent Spotlight Speaker Series,BigTent Events,Preserving Democracy
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SUMMARY:BigTent Letter-Writing Party!
DESCRIPTION:???? 71 DAYS TO GO! Time to DO SOMETHING!\nJoin us for a letter writing session with Vote Forward on Tuesday\, August 27 at 12pm ET! \nIt’s so important for us to reach out to voters\, help them understand what’s at stake\, and encourage them to vote for the kind of world they want to live in! Learn about the impact of letter-writing\, volunteer training\, and Q&A with a Vote Rider expert. \n???? Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity to learn\, engage\, and make a difference! \nRequest Letters Here
URL:https://bigtentusa.org/event/bigtent-letter-writing-party/
LOCATION:BigTent Zoom Room
CATEGORIES:Tent Talks,BigTent Events,Letter-Writing
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