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2020 Election Speaker Series

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EVENT DETAILS: 
When: September 13, 18, 25 & October 2, 9, 16, 23
Time: 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm CST
Where: Live Stream
Cost: FREE

The University of Dayton School of Law and Human Rights Center are hosting a 2020 Election Speaker Series. The series will consist of political experts and officeholders discussing the most pressing issues leading up to the 2020 Election. The sessions will be available on Zoom and are free. You can attend all of them or just specific sessions. Please view the sessions below and register using the link provided for each session you wish to attend.

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Civic Engagement – Monday, September 14, 5:00-6:30 p.m.
This inaugural session focuses on how to get engaged in the 2020 election on the local, state, and national levels. 
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  • Introductions & Moderator:
    Shelley Inglis, Executive Director, University of Dayton Human Rights Center
  • Speaker:
    Frank LaRose, Ohio Secretary of State
  • Panelists
    Ifeolu A.C. Claytor, All Voting is Local, Ohio Campaign Manager
    Jo Lovelace Hill, Vice-President of Voter Services, League of Women Voters of Greater Dayton
    Christopher Devine, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Dayton
  • Presentation
    UDayton Votes Removing Barriers and Striving to Empower All to Participate – Rep. Charles Booker – Friday, September 18, 5:00-6:30 p.m.

Removing Barriers and Striving to Empower All to Participate – Friday, September 18, 5:00-6:30 p.m.
This session will feature Rep. Charles Booker with the Kentucky State House of Representatives.
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  • Introductions & Moderator:
    Joel Pruce, University of Dayton Human Rights Center
  • Keynote:
    Rep. Charles Booker, Kentucky State House of Representatives
  • Student and Community Panel: 
    Zion Savory, President, Black Law Students Association, University of Dayton School of Law
    Darius J. Beckham, Legislative Aide to Mayor Nan Whaley, City of Dayton

Race and Gender in the Elections – Friday, September 25, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
This session will examine issues of race and gender that impact elections in the United States. It features a special appearance and address by Ohio House Minority Leader Emelia Strong Sykes starting at 4:30 pm.
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  • Introductions:
    Khandice Lofton, Vice-President, Black Law Students Association, University of Dayton School of Law
  • Moderator: 
    Tiffany Taylor Smith, Executive Director for Inclusive Excellence Education and Professional Development, University of Dayton
  • Speaker:
    Rep. Emilia Strong Sykes, Ohio House Democratic Leader
  • Panel:
    Reverend Peter Matthews, Pastor, Historic McKinley United Methodist Church and Director of the Center for Global Renewal and Missions at United Theological Seminary
    Professor Neil G. Williams, Nathaniel R. Jones Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago’s School of Law

Voter Participation and Suppression – Friday, October 2, 5:00-6:30 p.m.
This session will examine structural problems that undermine full enfranchisement in the United States. 
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  • Introductions & Moderator:
    Bob Taft, University of Dayton, Distinguished Research Associate
  • Panel:
    Kathay Feng, National Redistricting Director, Common Cause
  • Benjamin Cover, Associate Professor of Law, University of Idaho College of Law

Technology and Voting in 2020 – Problems and Promise – Friday, October 9, 5:00-6:30 p.m.
This session will examine how new technologies are affecting the 2020 elections.
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  • Introductions:
    Wm. David Salisbury, Sherman-Standard Register Professor of Cybersecurity Management & Director, UD Center for Cybersecurity & Data Intelligence    
  • Moderator:
    Aquene Freechild, Co-Director, Democracy Is For People Campaign
  • Panel:
    Charles Stewart III, Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Political Science, MIT
    Dan Wallach, Professor, Rice University Department of Computer Science
    Elizabeth Howard, Senior Counsel, Brennan Center’s Democracy Program

Campaign Finance and Other First Amendment Issues – Friday, October 16, 5:00-6:30 p.m.
This session will examine the current law and practice of financing and conducting political campaigns in 2020. 
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  • Panel:
    Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Professor of Law, Stetson University
    Ann Southworth, Professor of Law, UC Irvine School of Law; Co-Director, Center for Empirical Research on the Legal Profession
    Craig Holman, Government Affairs Lobbyist, Public Citizen

Expectations, Emergent Issues, and Breaking News – Friday, October 23, 5:00-6:30 p.m.
This final session is devoted to a final review of the election-related issues facing the nation and our community in the final days running up to Election Day.
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Indigenous Peoples’ Day Virtual Teach-In: Food and Water Justice

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EVENT DETAILS: 
When: Wednesday, September 12
Time: 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Where: Live Stream
Cost: $15

Description:
Join the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) and Teaching for Change for keynote speaker, Winona LaDuke and curriculum workshops. The focus of the teach-in is Indigenous peoples’ histories and experiences around food and water justice today. The keynote speaker and interactive workshops will feature classroom resources from the NMAI’s Native Knowledge 360° and the Zinn Education Project’s Teach Climate Justice campaign. The teach-in will be held virtually via Zoom. CEU’s will be available by request and closed captions will be offered for the keynote and selected sessions. 

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Refusing to ‘go back to normal’: Addressing structural racism in policing, healthcare, and other institutions

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EVENT DETAILS: 
When: Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Time: 1:00-2:15 pm CT / 2:00-3:15 pm ET
Where: Live Stream on Zoom
Cost: FREE

Description:
This session builds upon our previous event, “Addressing Racial Inequities in Health Outcomes During COVID and Beyond,” by delving further into the impacts of systemic racism, and suggesting alternative social and policy paths for improving lives and health by respecting the rights of Black people in the United States.

Distinguished presenters include Dr. Tendayi Achiume, U.N. Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, Dr. Rachel Hardeman, from the University of Minnesota and  Dr. Sirry Alang from Lehigh University.  The panel will be moderated by Dr. Shailey Prasad, Director of the Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility.

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Freedom Reads: Anti-Bias Book Talk Series

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Teaching for Change has just launched a new series entitled, Freedom Reads: Anti-Bias Book Talk. The series is a collection of short videos that give caregivers, parents, and educators the tools to evaluate children’s books using an anti-racist and anti-bias lens.

In Freedom Reads, associate director of Teaching for Change, Allyson Criner Brown, spends ten minutes examining a different children’s book, offering a synopsis, relevant resources, and four to five key points from an anti-bias, critical literacy perspective.

“In years of working with parents, caregivers, and educators, we’ve seen that taking a deep dive into children’s books is one of the best ways to teach adults how to apply an anti-bias, anti-racist lens to books and other children’s media,” says Criner Brown.

Designed with parents in mind, Freedom Reads intends to take viewers on an extended journey through some of the best anti-bias and anti-racist books out there. The series appears on Teaching for Change’s YouTube channel and Social Justice Books website. 

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Tactical Mapping Tool Webinar

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EVENT DETAILS: 
When: Thursday, July 30
Time: 11:00 am – 2:00 pm  ET
Where: Live Stream on Zoom
Cost: FREE

Description:
New Tactics in Human Rights invites you to register for the Tactical Mapping Tool (TMT) webinar. This time the intro and intermediate webinars have been combined.

The TMT allows activists to work collaboratively on a secure platform to build their map and a database of key actors, assess where those actors sit on a spectrum from ally to opponent, and track and plan direct action. Centered around the idea of mapping the relationships that emanate from a human rights abuse, the Tactical Mapping Tool is intended to assist activists in better understanding and assessing power dynamics and the impact that targeted action would have on individuals and their relationships. The TMT uses New Tactics’ Five Steps to Strategic Effective Method, which helps activists to be more strategic and effective in their advocacy work, as a foundation of the web tool. 

This User Webinar will cover an introduction to New Tactics in Human Rights, our Strategic Effectiveness Method, and the Tactical Mapping Tool. The webinar will also delve into a discussion on the features of the Tactical Mapping Tool and provide guidance on how to use the TMT to get more from your planning and organizing. More details will be provided upon acceptance to the webinar. 

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Human Rights Learning Lab for Young People

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EVENT DETAILS: 
When: Fridays, August 7, 14, 21, 2020 
Time: 12:00 pm PT, 2:00 pm CT, 3:00 pm ET
Length: 75-90 minutes per session
Where: Live Stream
Cost: FREE

Description:
As we shelter in place join Amnesty International for Friday’s in July-August as we explore human rights through interactive learning activities designed for grade levels 3rd-8th.   

Children have often been told that they are the future, that they will solve the world’s problems, innovate solutions, and be “the leaders of tomorrow.” But why does it have to be tomorrow?  

Now, more than ever is the time to speak to young people about universal human rights.  We know children are brave, powerful, and inquisitive.  The human rights learning lab will tailor age-appropriate learning through activities that will focus on: 

  • Introducing basic concepts focused on teaching “what are human rights?”
  • Observing human rights in your community and today’s world
  • Storytelling
  • What you can do!

Participants will receive a “Human Rights Hero Certificate of Recognition” from Amnesty International. For more information please contact jestrada@aiusa.org

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Reopening America’s Schools & Campuses Safely & Equitably

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EVENT DETAILS: 
When: Tuesday, July 28
Time: 4:00 pm PT, 7:00 pm ET
Where: Live Stream
Cost: FREE

Description:
How and when our schools and campuses reopen is one the most important decisions our leaders can make right now.  

Unfortunately, some politicians are pushing for them to fully reopen even as COVID-19 infection rates rise in their area and without proper safety plans or supplies in place. At the same time, key to returning safely is at least $175 billion in federal education funding, which is currently stalled in the U.S. Senate.

Join NEA for a special town hall for a conversation about what we can do as educators, parents, and community members to advocate for going back to school safely and equitably.  

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Social and emotional learning: are you using it in your classroom?

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EVENT DETAILS: 
When: July 21 & July 30
Where: Online Webinar
Cost: FREE

Calling all educators! Join the Speak Truth to Power (STTP) program for two workshops later this month that will concentrate on the connection between social and emotional learning (SEL) and human rights education. Check out the details below and register today!

Session 1—Tuesday, July 21 at 4:00pm EDT
In this workshop, educators will:

  • Explore the intersections between SEL and human rights education
  • Learn how to build social-emotional competence that is needed to become a human rights defender

Session 2—Thursday, July 30 at 2:00pm EDT 
In this workshop, educators will:

  • Examine SEL core competencies within human rights and racial equity frameworks
  • Collaborate with other teachers to apply an equity lens to the STTP lesson plans

If you have questions, please contact us at sttp@rfkhumanrights.org.

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Stay-In-Stitute for Climate Change Education

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EVENT DETAILS: 
When: July 22-24, 2020
Where: Virtual conference
Cost: $150 (scholarships available)
Credits: 20 hours of Continuing education and 2 graduate credits available

Climate change solutions are made in the classroom, at home, and within our communities. Let’s make the most out of our current situation by reimagining what education can be and how we can build opportunities for climate change solutions together! Virtual learning experiences offer a unique opportunity to make connections across our public and at-home learning spaces that don’t exist in the traditional system.

This three-day experience will take you beyond your computer screen, and into your backyard and neighborhood to do authentic scientific and social data collection, move your body, and make observations of the world around you. On-screen time will be segmented into at most two-hours at a time, and small group online experiences will occur daily, as well as optional evening events.

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People’s Historians Online Mini-Classes

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EVENT DETAILS: 
When: Fridays throughout May and June
Time: 11 am Pacific, 1pm Central, 2pm Eastern
Where: Live Stream
Cost: FREE

Every Friday, as part of their People’s Historians Online Series, the Zinn Education Project presents a 75-minute mini-class featuring phenomenal teachers, authors, and professors from around the United States. 

Participants can look forward to learning through stories about people’s history, meeting other educators, and finding a road map forward in the midst of this pandemic. As one participant said, “Thank you for getting us together and giving me hope that we are not alone and that we can think and act ourselves out of this pandemic.”

The sessions are designed for teachers and other school staff, however, parents, students, and others are welcome to participate. ASL interpretation is provided. Upcoming sessions include: 

  • June 5: Reconstruction and Issues of Citizenship, Suffrage, and Movement Building in the 19th Century: Part 1 – Manisha Sinha in conversation with an educator
  • June 12: Reconstruction and Issues of Citizenship, Suffrage, and Movement Building in the 19th Century: Part 2 – Martha Jones in conversation with Tiffany Mitchell Patterson
  • June 19: Reconstruction and Juneteenth – Greg Carr in conversation with Jessica Rucker
  • June 26: Women in the Black Freedom Struggle – Jeanne Theoharis in conversation with Jesse Hagopian

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We are grateful for the generous support of our members, individual donors, and The Puffin Foundation Ltd
The core values of HRE USA and its partner organizations include transparency and critical thinking skills. We believe that human rights--and human rights education--belong to everyone, and that the full realization of human rights means that access to human rights education materials must never be conditioned upon the subscription to any particular religious faith, ideology, political affiliation, or membership in any particular organization and that any organizational connections should be openly acknowledged.