Film : Suppressed and Sabotaged: The Fight to Vote (2022)
Film Screening & Panel Discussion on Zoom July 7th @ 6pm
Robert Greenwald, film producer and director, will attend and introduce the film.
The November 2022 mid-term elections and the primary elections running up to them are
important. Control of the U.S. legislature is at stake, as are state and local elections for
governor, state representatives, and school board members. But voter suppression, gerrymandering, inconvenient polling locations and hours, and other tactics are affecting the 2022 elections. The 45-minute film, Suppressed and Sabotaged: The Fight to Vote (2022), updates the 2020 film version.
Film description:
Suppressed and Sabotaged: The Fight to Vote (2022) shows the growing threat of voter
suppression and election sabotage in the U.S. The film is a call to action against calculated, unconstitutional attacks intended to suppress the right to vote. In 2021, after the Big Lie of the 2020 election, 19 states passed 34 new voter laws to restrict access to voting. The 45-minute film focuses on this recent wave of voter suppression and highlights how these new laws will affect the constitutional right to vote, especially in Florida, Georgia, and other states. Voter suppression laws disproportionately affect students, senior citizens, and people of color. Suppression tactics include registration hurdles, polling place closures, voter purges, missing absentee ballots, extreme wait times at polling locations, and new vote by mail limitations.
Panel discussion:
A discussion will follow the film screening. Join us to hear what actions we can take to fight voter suppression and fight for the right to vote.
Additionally, Church and Society/Social Justice Committee at First Church is sponsoring a Get Out the Vote postcard writing campaign through the Center for Common Ground/Reclaim Our Vote. Postcard writers encourage people in states where voter suppression is rampant to check their registration status and vote.
Postcard writing materials and text are supplied in a packet for $9.00. Contact Sue Porter if you are interested.