NYU in NYC: Stealing the Vote in 2008, Panel Discussion

A Panel Discussion at NYU, NYC

Thursday October 16th, 7:00 to 9:00 PM (EDT)

Room 102 at 19 University Place (at SE corner of Univ Place and 8th St.)

Free and Open to the Public:

Panelists include:

Frances Fox Piven, Lorraine Minnite and Margaret Groarke, all political scientists and authors of Keeping Down the Black Vote: Race and the Demobilization of American Voters, to be published early 2009.
Jackson Chin, a lawyer with the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund.

Moderator:

Miles Rapoport, President of Demos: A Network for Ideas and Action, and former Secretary of State of Connecticut.

Frances Fox Piven teaches Political Science at CUNY Graduate Center. Piven has served as the Vice-President of the American Political Science Association and the President of the American Sociological Association, Yet she is best known for the inventive way she consistently combines her scholarship and her political activism. Among her books are: Regulating the Poor (1972), Why Americans Still Don’t Vote (2000), Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America (2006).

Lorriane Minnite teaches Political Science at Barnard College. She has written several studies about voter fraud as well as NYC politics. She served on a committee addressing New York’s Recovery from 9/11 and has written about the impact of post-9/11 responses on immigrant communities in NYC.

Margaret Groarke teaches Government at Manhattan College and is Director of its Peace Studies Program. In addition to her current work on voter disenfranchisement she has written about community organizing and local mortgage issues.

Jackson Chin is a senior staff lawyer with LatinoJustice PRLDEF (formerly called the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund). He has litigated cases in voting rights, immigrant rights, employment discrimination, civil and constitutional matters affecting Latinos and immigrant groups. Chin previously was a lawyer for Safe Horizon’s Immigration Law Project, Center for Immigrant Rights, The Legal Aid Society, and the Chinese Staff and Workers Association in NYC.

Organized and Sponsored by the History and Democracy Seminar in the Horowitz Center, Steinhardt; co-sponsored by the Brennan Center for Justice, the Institute for Public Knowledge, all at NYU and the Judson Memorial Church, Demos: A Network for Ideas and Action, and the New Press, publisher of Keeping Down the Black Vote.