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Draw Maps & Build Power: Map Drawing Part I
Wed, Apr 14
Zoom
Apr 14, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Zoom
Week Five Participant Goals: Participants will use all of the skills from the previous classes to draw district maps for their community.
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Draw Maps & Build Power: Map Drawing Part II
Wed, Apr 21
Zoom
Apr 21, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Zoom
Week Six Participant Goals: Participants will use all of the skills from the previous classes to draw district maps for their community.
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Draw Maps & Build Power: Statistics for Redistricting
Wed, Apr 07
Zoom
Apr 07, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Zoom
Week Four Participant Goals: - Understanding the basics of redistricting including language, data and timeline. - Identify statistical tests that are commonly used to provide evidence that districts are compact
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Draw Maps & Build Power: Elementary Statistics
Wed, Mar 24
Zoom
Mar 24, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Zoom
Week Three Participant Goals: Understand the difference between statistics and population data and learn how to analyze community data.
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Draw Maps & Build Power: Analyzing Census and Election Data
Wed, Mar 17
Zoom
Mar 17, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Zoom
Week Two Participant Goals: - Learn how to obtain census data. - Determine the purpose for each census/survey data set. - Identify the source of the data and how it is coded. - Determine how it interacts with census data to produce maps.
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Draw Maps & Build Power: Geo-Coding and the Census
Wed, Mar 10
Zoom
Mar 10, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
Zoom
Week One Participant Goals: - Articulate the purpose of the census and what the data is used for. - Understand the methodologies used to collect census data and how to interpret the data. - Understand the difference between the Census and survey data.
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Empowering Our Communities: the Census, Voting Reform and Re-Districting
Sat, Feb 15
Legislative Office Building - HR A
Feb 15, 2020, 10:45 AM – 12:00 PM
Legislative Office Building - HR A, 198 State St, Albany, NY 12210, USA
Join us in Albany for Caucus Weekend as CLSJ Interim Director Lurie Daniel Favors, Esq. speaks about the 2020 Census and voting reform on a dynamic panel.
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Crown Act The Politics of Black Hair in the Workplace
Sat, Feb 15
Legislative Office Building - MR 3
Feb 15, 2020, 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Legislative Office Building - MR 3, 198 State St, Albany, NY 12210, USA
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1619 Youth Conference
Thu, Dec 19
Boys and Girls High School
Dec 19, 2019, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Boys and Girls High School, 1700 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY 11213, USA
General Counsel Lurie Daniel Favors, Esq. will present a workshop entitled 1619: The Birth of the American Hate Crime Industry and will participate in a Wealth Gap Panel Discussion.
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Black Activist Census Summit
Wed, Dec 18
All Souls Episcopal Church
Dec 18, 2019, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
All Souls Episcopal Church, 88 St Nicholas Ave, New York, NY 10026, USA
CLSJ is co-sponsoring a Black Activist Census Summit with the December 12th Movement and the East New York Restoration LDC (flyer is attached), in Harlem, NYC. We'd like to invite all interested organizations & community members to attend & leave with a concrete census outreach plan!
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Senator Brian Benjamin 2020 Census Ugly Sweater Party
Mon, Dec 16
ACP State Office Building
Dec 16, 2019, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
ACP State Office Building, 163 W 125th St, New York, NY 10027, USA
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400 Years Later: What Does Democracy Mean for Us?
Tue, Nov 05
TWU Local 100
Nov 05, 2019, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
TWU Local 100, 195 Montague St, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA
Join CLSJ General Counsel Lurie Daniel Favors, Esq. and a dynamic panel for a compelling conversation about the 400+ year presence of African Americans in the United States.
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Early Voting Comes to New York
Tue, Nov 05
Location is TBD
Nov 05, 2019, 6:00 AM – 9:00 PM
Location is TBD
For the first time, New Yorkers will have the chance to participate in early voting from Oct. 26, 2019 thru Nov. 3, 2019 and on Election Day, Nov.5, 2019
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Black Solidarity Day 2019
Mon, Nov 04
EOJ Auditorium | Medgar Evers College
Nov 04, 2019, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
EOJ Auditorium | Medgar Evers College, 1638 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11225, USA
Join us for a roundtable discussion commemorating the anniversary of Black Solidarity Day. General Counsel Lurie Daniel Favors, Esq. will participate in the Knowledge, Justice & Equity panel.
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