[grc] organize free showings of "Rigged: The voter suppression playbook"

[Spencer Graves]

Hello, All:


	  I just recorded a 50 minute interview with Mac Heller, Founder of the 
American Issues Initiative (Mac Heller 
<Mac at americanissuesinitiative.com>), which produced the movie "Rigged: 
The voter suppression playbook".  For the August 13 broadcast I 
mentioned, I plan to cut that to 20 minutes or so, merge with interviews 
with other experts and then follow that with a half-hour virtual panel 
discussion among local people from groups like the American Civil 
Liberties Union (ACLU) and the League of Women Voters (LWV), who are 
working to defeat voter suppression and fraudulent election integrity 
measures in our listening area.


	  Mac said that a primary thrust of their current work is arranging 
virtual showings of the film followed by a panel with some of his people 
talking with people in the local sponsoring group(s).  KKFI and one 
other organization here in Kansas City did that just over 2 months ago. 
It was done as a local fundraiser.  KKFI and the other co-sponsor split 
a few hundred dollars.  It wasn't much money, but it was something.  And 
it raised the profile of this issue as well as KKFI and the other 
co-sponsor.


	  If you might be interested in doing something like this, go to:


https://www.riggedthefilm.com/


	  ... or write to Mac Heller <Mac at americanissuesinitiative.com>.


	  More later.
	  Spencer Graves


p.s.  I'm convinced that our democracy would not be under attack in this 
way if the so-called liberal media actually took the time to do some 
serious reporting on election integrity and other issues.  Instead, they 
may repeat Trump's sound bites but without asking for the opinions of 
any serious expert and especially without confronting people like Hans 
von Spakovsky for his "expert" testimony in Fish v. Kobach, which the 
judge described by saying he was an advocate, not an expert, and his 
testimony was misleading.  See:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_v._Kobach#External_links


https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias_and_conflict


https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Media_and_Democracy_in_Kansas_City_and_Elsewhere


https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Winning_the_War_on_Terror


On 2020-07-30 10:16, Stephanie Schubert wrote:
> Hey Spencer,
> 
> Excited to hear that you plan to offer your work as a Sprouts show!  
> Keep me posted.
> 
> Best,
> Stephanie
> 
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 8:38 PM Spencer Graves via grc 
> <grc at maillist.peak.org <mailto:grc at maillist.peak.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Hello, All:
> 
> 
>                Might you have any interest in having help producing a
>     special on
>     election integrity tailored to your audience?
> 
> 
>                I'm working with Mac Heller of the American Issues
>     Initiative
>     (americanissuesinitiative.com
>     <http://americanissuesinitiative.com>), who produced the movie
>     "Rigged:  The
>     Voter Suppression Playbook" (https://www.riggedthefilm.com/) and others
>     to produce a special on election integrity to air on KKFI.org, August
>     13, 7-8 PM Central.  This is a major issue in Missouri this year:  If
>     you want to vote absentee, you have to get your ballot notarized.  And
>     Missouri Republican incumbents are trying to overturn a "Clean
>     Missouri"
>     constitutional amendment for a nonpartisan redistricting procedure that
>     got 62 percent of the vote in 2018.  One Republican incumbent said
>     Clean
>     Missouri would be devastating to Republicans.  They have 71 percent of
>     the Missouri state legislature in spite of the fact that only 47
>     percent
>     of the electorate identify as "Republican or lean Republican" (vs. 38
>     percent "Democrat or lean Democratic").  Without gerrymandering,
>     Republicans could lose that partisan advantage.  This broadcast will
>     mix
>     the nationwide material with information specific to Missouri and
>     Kansas, the primary listening audience of KKFI.
> 
> 
>                I plan to offer this to Sprouts.  However, if any of you are
>     interested, you could either carry this live OR I could work with
>     you to
>     help you produce something similar but tailored to your audience.
> 
> 
>                Comments?
>                Spencer Graves
>     m:  408-655-4567
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