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SUMMARY:Screening of Oscar nominated Short Film RED WHITE AND BLUE | (LINK ATTACHED)
DESCRIPTION:????UPDATE: BIGTENTUSA is proud to be a partner of the film “Red\, White and Blue” now streaming on YouTube HERE. \nIt is available for viewing for FREE for the next 2 weeks. Please share widely!\nAfter watching the film head to our panel discussion with award-winning journalist Katie Couric\, Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer\, director and producer of the film\, Nazrin Choudhury\, OBGYN and reproductive rights activist Dr. Austin Dennard\, and Nourbese Flint\, President of All*In Action Fund. The powerful discussion focused on how abortion policy is creating a healthcare crisis for many women\, and how reproductive rights are impacting political messaging and voter turnout. \nIf you believe in reproductive freedom and justice and preserving the right of access to necessary healthcare for millions of Americans\, here are three things you can do to help: \n1. WATCH & SHARE: Please watch the film all the way through – it’s only 23 minutes long\, so watch it in one sitting\, then share with everyone you know! Link in bio to watch! Every view is being matched this week to a donation to the Purple Parlor Fund. \n2. VOTE: Please vote like your lives and bodies depend on it because they do. Early voting is happening now through to November 5th. \n3. DONATE: Please support Level Forward’s Purple Parlor Fund which is helping Pro-Choice partners (like us) to continue doing the important work on the ground. \nABOUT OUR SPEAKERS \nNAZRIN CHOUDHURY is a UK-US filmmaker who left the pursuit of medicine and a brief career in politics after her first foray into screenwriting garnered her a Focus on Talent Award with DNA FILMS. She is the recipient of the Imison award for her critically-acclaimed play\, MIXED BLOOD\, and an Arts Council of England award for her novel-in-progress\, MY ENGLAND. Based in Los Angeles\, Nazrin works extensively across film and television as a writer/producer/showrunner. Nazrin’s directorial debut on the short film\, RED\, WHITE AND BLUE – which she also wrote and produced – earned her an Oscar nomination in the Best Live Action Short Film category at the 96th Academy Awards. \nAUSTIN DENNARD\, M.D. is an OBGYN from Dallas\, Texas. Dr. Dennard had to leave Texas to receive abortion care after learning she was carrying a fetus with anencephaly\, a fatal condition in which the skull and brain do not fully develop. Dr. Dennard began her medical career in The University of Texas Southwestern Health system working at Parkland Hospital in Dallas. In addition to being a clinician\, she has served as a clinical professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Listen to Dr. Dennard’s NPR Story here. \nNOURBESE FLINT is President of All*In Action Fund\, working to achieve abortion justice and build the political power of voters of color.  Prior to coming to All*In Action Fund she was the Senior Director of Black Engagement at Planned Parenthood Federation of America\, where she worked on the strategic partnership to strengthen Planned Parenthood’s relationships within existing racial justice\, reproductive justice\, Black serving and civil rights organizations. \nNourbese is a founding member of Trust Black Women\, a national coalition dedicated to increasing respect and support of Black Women\, and is one of the founding members of the Black Women’s Democratic Club. She has been featured in MSNBC\, CalMatters\, Newsweek\, and more. \nMODERATOR \nKATIE COURIC is an award-winning journalist and #1 New York Times best-selling author. Couric was the first woman to solo anchor a network evening newscast\, serving as anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News from 2006 to 2011 following 15 years as co-anchor of NBC’s Today show. In 2017\, she founded Katie Couric Media (KCM)\, which has developed a number of media projects\, including a daily newsletter\, “Wake-Up Call”\, a podcast\, “Next Question”\, digital video series and several documentaries. You can find it all at katiecouric.com.
URL:https://bigtentusa.org/event/red-white-and-blue/
LOCATION:BigTent Zoom Room
CATEGORIES:BigTent Spotlight Speaker Series,BigTent Events,Womens Empowerment and Rights,Preserving Democracy
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240911T190000
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SUMMARY:Turning Tragedy into Activism: Amanda Zurawski and Tara McGowan
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday September 11 at 7:00PM ET\, we were honored to have the lead plaintiff in Zurawski vs. Texas\, Amanda Zurawski\, and renowned journalist Tara McGowan. \nThis was an unique opportunity to hear from two women who are making significant contributions to critical issues in our society. Amanda Zurawski’s powerful testimony sheds light on the human cost of restrictive abortion laws\, while Tara McGowan explored the vital role of media in strengthening democracy and inspiring civic action. \nABOUT OUR SPEAKERS \nAmanda Zurawski was the lead plaintiff in Zurawski vs. Texas\, the first lawsuit brought by patients challenging a state on its abortion bans since the fall of Roe.  She lives in Austin\, TX. \nIn 2022\, after 18 months of fertility treatment\, Zurawski and her husband Josh learned she was pregnant with their first baby. Unfortunately Amanda miscarried at 18 weeks\, but due to the abortion bans in Texas\, was unable to receive healthcare\, and after three days crashed into septic shock\, which nearly killed her. After spending a week in the hospital\, Amanda began speaking out about her experience to help spread awareness and with hopes of preventing similar fates befalling other pregnant people\, in Texas and beyond. \nAmanda has spent the last two years advocating for reproductive rights and abortion access. She has testified in front of US Congress\, has provided interviews for countless media outlets and platforms. \nTara McGowan is the founder and publisher of COURIER\, a fast-growing left-leaning news network with local newsrooms in eleven states. COURIER is building a more informed\, engaged\, and representative democracy by reaching tens of millions of Americans where they are online with factual\, values-driven news that inspires civic participation. \nA former journalist and political strategist\, Tara has seen firsthand how America’s growing information chasm has contributed to increased polarization and the rising threat of authoritarianism. Recognizing the need for a new model of media that exists explicitly to protect and strengthen our fragile democracy\, Tara founded COURIER in 2019. COURIER is a network of state newsrooms whose on-the-ground reporters and correspondents deliver factual and empowering pro-democracy news directly to the social newsfeeds and inboxes of communities who have been left behind by traditional media. COURIER is one of the fastest-growing news networks in the country\, with nearly 4 million online subscribers\, over 800K TikTok followers\, and an average weekly reach of over 50 million Americans.
URL:https://bigtentusa.org/event/zurawski/
LOCATION:BigTent Zoom Room
CATEGORIES:BigTent Spotlight Speaker Series,BigTent Events,Womens Empowerment and Rights,Preserving Democracy
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240620T190000
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SUMMARY:Post Roe America – with attorney Julie F. Kay\, OBGYN Austin Dennard. M.D.\, and journalist Bonnie Fuller
DESCRIPTION:BigTentUSA  hosted a powerful\, personal\, and vital conversation on women’s reproductive health featuring attorney Julie F. Kay\, founder of Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine\, OBGYN\, mother\, and Texan Dr. Austin Dennard\, and moderated by journalist Bonnie Fuller. \nThe discussion centered on the ongoing fight for abortion access across the USA\, highlighting personal stories from the front lines. Dr. Dennard shared her deeply personal experience with a fetal anomaly diagnosis and her involvement in the Zurwaski v. Texascase. The conversation also covered the critical role of telehealth in providing medication abortions and analyzed the implications of the mifepristone case for women’s freedoms. This conversation shared the urgent need and work we all need to do in order to ensure that essential reproductive care remains legal and accessible nationwide! \nSince the fall of Roe\, the stories of women being harmed by bans and restrictions have become a daily drumbeat in America. Perhaps none more so than the women of Texas who live under the vague and cruel SB8. Dr. Austin Dennard\, an OBGYN and mom\, has confronted the consequences of Texas’s infamous law both as a physician and a woman. In July of 2022\, at 11 weeks pregnant with her third child\, Dr. Dennard received the devasting news that her baby had a deadly fetal anomaly. Because she is an obstetrician\, Dr. Dennard’s story is both deeply personal and medically authoritative. She has spoken publicly\, and she joined 21 other women in Zurwaski v. Texas. \n*ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS \nJULIE F. KAY\, as the lead attorney who designed and litigated the landmark case A.B.C. v. Ireland\, Kay successfully argued before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights that Ireland’s ban on life-saving abortion violated her client’s human rights. Kay’s legal work with the Irish Family Planning Association is credited with playing a vital role in abortion legalization in Ireland.  Her experience in Ireland and countries worldwide informs her strategies for abortion reform in the US.  She is the Founder and Executive Director of the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine. \nAUSTIN DENNARD\, M.D.\,  is an OBGYN from Dallas\, Texas. Dr. Dennard had to leave Texas to receive abortion care after learning she was carrying a fetus with anencephaly\, a fatal condition in which the skull and brain do not fully develop. Dr. Dennard began her medical career in The University of Texas Southwestern Health system working at Parkland Hospital in Dallas. In addition to being a clinician\, she has served as a clinical professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Listen to Dr. Dennard’s NPR Story here. \n 
URL:https://bigtentusa.org/event/kay-dennard-fuller/
LOCATION:BigTent Zoom Room
CATEGORIES:BigTent Spotlight Speaker Series,BigTent Events,Womens Empowerment and Rights,Preserving Democracy
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230718T120000
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SUMMARY:Tent Talk: The Fairness Project- Ohio’s Latest Power Grab
DESCRIPTION:We welcome Hannah Ledford Deputy Executive Director and Campaign Director for the Fairness Project. \nIn Latest Power Grab\, Ohio Senate Advances Anti-Democratic Supermajority Requirement for Ballot Measures. In the latest attack on direct democracy\, Ohio legislators on Wednesday voted to advance a supermajority threshold for future ballot measures\, co-opting a tactic being pushed by extremist officials in multiple states to limit voters’ decision-making power. \nAnti-abortion groups have been open about the fact that efforts to advance the supermajority threshold are intended to block a potential measure this November that would enshrine reproductive freedom in the state constitution. However\, if the threshold were to be raised to 60%\, it would impact all future ballot measures\, not just those related to abortion. \n\n\n\n\nIn response to repeated attacks on direct democracy\, including in states like South Dakota\, Arkansas\, Ohio and more\, the Fairness Project has been fighting to defend the ballot measure process and ensure citizens can use this critical tool for years to come. Since last year\, the Fairness Project has organized $5.6 million to fight back through its Ballot Measure Rescue Campaign. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Fairness Project’s  Ballot Measure Rescue Campaign is working to protect the ballot measure process itself across the country. They are leading a strategic multi-state coalition to fight back using litigation\, legislative advocacy\, and ballot measure campaigns. Where they need to bring litigation\, they will litigate. Where they can stop bad laws from being passed\, they will run aggressive communications and lobbying campaigns to stop anti-democratic bills. And where the legislature refers suppressive measures to the ballot\, they will fight to win those ballot campaigns. Link for more information Here
URL:https://bigtentusa.org/event/tent-talk-the-fairness-project-ohios-latest-power-grab/
LOCATION:BigTent Zoom Room
CATEGORIES:Tent Talks,BigTent Events,Womens Empowerment and Rights,Preserving Democracy
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221130T190000
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SUMMARY:Spotlight Speaker: Dahlia Lithwick
DESCRIPTION:Dahlia Lithwick is author of the best-selling new book Lady Justice: Women\, the Law\, and the Battle to Save America. She will discuss how women lawyers\, independently of each other\, sprang into action in 2016\, holding our legal system accountable under the devastating policies being executed by Donald Trump and his administration.  Sally Yates\, Stacey Abrams\, Becca Heller\, and Roberta Kaplan are a few of those women lawyers that she profiles. \nABOUT OUR SPEAKER: \nDahlia Lithwick is a regular contributor at MSNBC and senior editor at Slate – and\, in that capacity\, has been writing their “Supreme Court Dispatches” and “Jurisprudence” columns since 1999. Her work has appeared in the New York Times\, Harper’s\, The New Yorker\, The Washington Post\, The New Republic\, and Commentary\, among other places. She is host of Amicus\, Slate’s award-winning biweekly podcast about the law and the Supreme Court. \nIn 2018\, Lithwick received the American Constitution Society’s Progressive Champion Award\, and the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis. Lithwick won a 2013 National Magazine Award for her columns on the Affordable Care Act. She has been twice awarded an Online Journalism Award for her legal commentary. She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in October\, 2018. In 2021\, she was a recipient of the Women’s Media Center’s Exceptional Journalism Awards. In 2021 she won a Gracie Award for Amicus Presents: The Class of RBG\, which featured the last in-person audio interview with Ruth Bader Ginsburg. \nLithwick has held visiting faculty positions at the University of Georgia Law School\, the University of Virginia School of Law\, and the Hebrew University Law School in Jerusalem. She was the first online journalist invited to be on the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press. She has testified before Congress about access to justice in the era of the Roberts Court and how MeToo impacts federal judicial law clerks. She has appeared on CNN\, ABC\, The Colbert Report\, the Daily Show and is a frequent guest on The Rachel Maddow Show. \nMs. Lithwick earned her BA in English from Yale University and her JD degree from Stanford University. Her new book\, Lady Justice\, published by Penguin Press (September 2022)\, has already received rave reviews from the New York Times\, the Boston Globe\, among others. She is co-author of Me Versus Everybody (Workman Press\, 2006) (with Brandt Goldstein) and of I Will Sing Life (Little\, Brown 1992) (with Larry Berger). Her work has been featured in numerous anthologies including Jewish Jocks (2012)\, What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-one Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most (2013)\, About What was Lost (2006); A Good Quarrel (2009); Going Rouge: Sarah Palin\, An American Nightmare (2009); and Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary (2008).
URL:https://bigtentusa.org/event/spotlight-speaker-dahlia-lithwick/
LOCATION:BigTent Zoom Room
CATEGORIES:BigTent Spotlight Speaker Series,BigTent Events,Womens Empowerment and Rights,Preserving Democracy
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220914
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220915
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SUMMARY:Spotlight Speaker: Cecile Richards
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URL:https://bigtentusa.org/event/spotlight-speaker-cecile-richards/
LOCATION:BigTent Zoom Room
CATEGORIES:BigTent Spotlight Speaker Series,BigTent Events,Womens Empowerment and Rights,Preserving Democracy
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220913
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220914
DTSTAMP:20231026T162810Z
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SUMMARY:Tent Talk: Plan A
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URL:https://bigtentusa.org/event/tent-talk-plan-a/
LOCATION:BigTent Zoom Room
CATEGORIES:Tent Talks,BigTent Events,Womens Empowerment and Rights
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201014
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201015
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SUMMARY:Spotlight Speaker: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
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URL:https://bigtentusa.org/event/nancy-pelosi/
LOCATION:BigTent Zoom Room
CATEGORIES:BigTent Spotlight Speaker Series,BigTent Events,Womens Empowerment and Rights,Protecting our Children,Preserving Democracy
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