Editor’s note: The following is a press release from the League of Women Voters. Bloom has republished it here with minor edits for clarity and style.
The League of Women Voters of Indiana is sponsoring a three-film series offering insights into voter suppression and gerrymandering.
These documentaries, which were also screened in September 2020, will be shown via Zoom free of charge. Q&A panels will follow each film.
The first film, Suppressed: The Fight to Vote, will be shown on Thursday, January 28, and depicts personal accounts from Georgia voters who faced deliberate voter suppression in the 2018 midterm election. The 35-minute documentary will be followed by a Q&A with panelists Sarah Ferraro, an election official from the Calumet Leave of Women Voters, and Olisa Humes, president of the Columbus, Indiana, chapter of the NAACP.
The second film, UnCivil War: U.S. Elections Under Siege, will be shown on Thursday, February 4. A 45-minute documentary directed by Indiana native Tom Glynn, the film exposes a web of threats to free and fair elections. It includes a segment on Indiana’s fight for redistricting reform. The film will be followed by Q&A panelists Sheila Kennedy, former professor of law and policy at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IUPUI; Paul Helmke, former Fort Wayne mayor and current director of the Civic Leader Center at Indiana University; and Peggy Welch, former Indiana state representative, who was gerrymandered out in 2011.
The third film, Line in the Street, will be shown on Thursday, February 11. This award-winning documentary 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. Panelists will include Jesse Kharbanda of the Hoosier Environmental Council and Jennifer McCormick, former Indiana state superintendent of public instruction).
All film screenings will begin at 7:30 p.m. Attendees must register in advance here. In response, a registration confirmation email will be sent with information and a unique link to attend the programs.
To sign up for updates or to volunteer with the redistricting campaign, contact [email protected].
