As Goes Ohio . . . Election Protection Conference

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As Goes Ohio . . . Election Protection Conference

Scholar and author Mark Crispin Miller
Exit poll expert Steve Freeman
Filmmaker John Ennis
Journalist Steve Rosenfeld
Filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman

September 26-28, 2008
Conference Center, Center for Workforce Development

315 Cleveland Avenue, 4th floor
Columbus State Community College
Columbus, Ohio

Help assure Ohio's 2008 election is free and fair!

Get involved in:

  • Board of Election Monitoring
  • Same Day Voter Registration and Early Voting
  • Election Protection on Election Day
  • Video the Vote

Join America's leading scholars and activists for hands-on training in nonpartisan election protection skills. Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is up to us, the people, to make sure that all voters are treated fairly regardless of race, creed, color, religions, or handicapped status. Let's identify and discuss the irregularities in the 2004, 2005, & 2006 elections and craft a plan to protect this year's national election.

REGISTER FOR THIS FREE CONFERENCE NOW.

Donate to election protection efforts here.

For more information call 614-253-2571 or email truth@freepress.org.

Donation requested for refreshments.
Parking in Columbus State lot on Cleveland Ave. just south of I-670.

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CONFERENCE AGENDA (tentative)

FRIDAY night, September 26

    6pm - Doors open 7-9pm - Film showing: "Free For All"
    Featuring filmmaker John Wellington Ennis chronicling election theft in Ohio's elections
    9pm - Keynote Speaker Mark Crispin Miller
    Author, "Loser Take All" and "Fooled Again"
    Book signing

SATURDAY, September 27

    10am - Doors open
    11am - Overview of the day's organizing
    11:30am - Opening remarks
    12pm - Refreshments, networking, socializing, community organization tabling
    1pm - 5pm - Afternoon Workshops:
      Board of Elections monitoring efforts
      Voter registration/same day voting activities
      Election Protection organizing for Election Day
      Video the Vote training by John Ennis

SUNDAY, September 28

    12:30pm - Special Discount Showing -- Stealing America Vote-by-Vote film
    Featuring filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman
    Gateway Theater, OSU campus

Co-conveners:

    Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman

Conference Sponsors:

    Common Cause
    Columbus Indymedia
    Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism - Free Press
    Central Ohio Green Education Fund
    Columbus State Community College Social and Behavioral Sciences Department WCRS

Keynote Speaker: Mark Crispin Miller

    Mark Crispin Miller is a professor of media studies at New York University and author of the books: "Loser Take All," "Fooled Again, How the Right Stole the 2004 Elections" and "The Bush Dyslexicon." He is known for his writing on American media and for his activism on behalf of democratic media reform.
    Meet Mark on Friday, September 26, 9 p.m. for his speaking engagement and book signing


ELECTION FILM SHOWINGS


Free For All

    Friday, Sept. 26 - 9 p.m. (free) produced by John Ennis
    Columbus State - Conference Center
    John investigates the evidence of the stolen 2004 election with sometimes frustrating and often funny results

Stealing America Vote-by-Vote

    Sept. 26-Oct. 2 (full run)
    SPECIAL: Discount Showing for conference-goers on Sunday, Sept. 28 - 12:30 p.m.
    produced by Dorothy Fadiman
    Drexel Gateway Theater, OSU
    Experts and witnesses exposing the flaws of electronic voting

How Ohio Pulled It Off

    Thursday, Oct. 2 - 7 p.m.
    produced by Matt Kraus, Charla Baker, and Mariana Quiroga
    Ohio University students reveal former Ohio Secretary of State Blackwell's tactics to steal the Ohio 2004 election as they follow him on his failed 2006 gubernatorial campaign trail

Murder, Spies & Voting Lies

    Tuesday, Oct. 28 - 7:30 p.m. (free)
    produced by Patty Sharaf
    Drexel East Theater, Bexley
    Brad Friedman (bradblog) looks at the Clint Curtis story - the man asked by the Republicans to program a computer to flip the vote

































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