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LWV Indiana -  Voter Suppression and Gerrymandering Series
Jan-Feb 2021


Film 1 of 3:  Suppressed: The Fight to Vote
by Robert Greenwald   
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Produced by Brave New Films, this 2020 updated documentary chronicles the 2018 & 2020 elections in Georgia where people faced polling place closures, voter purges, missing absentee ballots and extreme wait times —disproportionately preventing students and people of color from voting.

Panelists: 
    Olisa Humes - President - NAACP Chapter, Columbus IN
    Hal Turner - Monroe County Board of Elections

Watch the Panel Discussion that occurred following the movie viewing:



Film 2 of 3:  Uncivil War: U.S. Elections Under Siege 
This 45-minute documentary exposes the web of threats facing our elections today. The film includes a segment on Indiana’s fight to reform redistricting, featuring interviews with Common Cause’s Julia Vaughn and Debbie Asberry of the Indiana League of Women Voters, co-founders of All IN for Democracy, Indiana’s Coalition for Redistricting Reform.


Panelists: 
  Sheila Kennedy 
     (former Professor of Law and Policy, School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IUPUI)
  Paul Helmke 
      (former Ft. Wayne Mayor, now Director of the Civic Leaders Center at IU). 
  Peggy Welch 
     (IN State Rep. gerrymandered out of her district in 2011) 


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Watch the panel discussion




Film 3 of 3: Line in the Street by Robert and Rachel Millman



This award-winning film on gerrymander reform is about citizen activists and a landmark win for voting rights in the 2018 Pennsylvania Supreme Court case, League of Women Voters Pennsylvania v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This first of its kind lawsuit held that partisan gerrymandering violated Pennsylvania's State Constitution, irrespective of federal law, or federal courts..   
Panelists: 

  Jesse Kharbanda

     (Exec. Director, Hoosier Environmental Council)

  Jennifer McCormick

      (Former IN State Superintendent of Public Instruction). 

   Robert Millman

     (Director and Co-Producer of Line in the Street)



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Fliers and Posters for showings


Uncivil War
  See resources used by LWV Muncie-Delaware County for public screening

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Line in the Street
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Suppressed - The Fight to Vote
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