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SUMMARY:“America’s Disenfranchised: Why Restoring Their Vote Can Save the Soul o
f Our Democracy”
DESCRIPTION:\nFor Desmond Meade\, the right to vote is not simply a bedr
ock of American democracy. It is a personal struggle. He knows what it&r
squo\;s like to lose that right and he has spent the past fifteen \;
years working to help formerly incarcerated people in Florida fight to r
egain it.\n\nMeade\, the executive director of the \;Florida Rights
Restoration Coalition \;(FRRC)\, will be honored for his work as a d
emocracy advocate with the \;McCourtney Institute for Democracy&rsqu
o\;s \;2021 Brown Democracy Medal. Under his leadership\, the FRRC l
aunched Amendment 4\, a ballot initiative that asked Florida residents w
hether voting rights should automatically be restored for people with pr
ior felony convictions. The measure passed in November 2018 with support
from 65 percent \;of the state&rsquo\;s voters.\n\nMeade is a 2021
MacArthur Fellow\, a recipient of the organization&rsquo\;s prestigious
&ldquo\;genius grant.&rdquo\;\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu
.edu/event/bdm_desmond-meade/
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:For Desmond Mea
de, the right to vote is not simply a bedrock of American democracy. It
is a personal struggle. He knows what it’s like to lose that right
and he has spent the past fifteen years working to help formerly i
ncarcerated people in Florida fight to regain it.
Meade, the execu
tive director of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition (FRRC),
will be honored for his work as a democracy advocate with the McCo
urtney Institute for Democracy’s 2021 Brown Democracy Medal.
Under his leadership, the FRRC launched Amendment 4, a ballot initiative
that asked Florida residents whether voting rights should automatically
be restored for people with prior felony convictions. The measure passe
d in November 2018 with support from 65 percent of the state’
s voters.
Meade is a 2021 MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of the org
anization’s prestigious “genius grant.”
For more
details: h
ttps://events.la.psu.edu/event/bdm_desmond-meade/
URL:http://democracy.psu.edu/events
LOCATION:Hintz Family Alumni Center
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