Events
We host public events with thought leaders to inform folks of important problems and workshop actionable steps and long-term solutions.
APR 12
2022
Join our Fight Against #HateForProfit and Disinformation
Nandini Jammi, co-founder Sleeping Giants and Check-My-Ads. Pioneer activist in defunding hate-for-profit and disinformation via adtech and brand awareness.
DEC 15
2021
Saving Democracy Through Local Journalism
Peter Shaplen, Journalist, AP Mark Twain Award winner, (co-hosted with Secure Elections Network).
JUN 21
2021
Dark Money: Poison of American Democracy
U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, author of The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court, (co-hosted with Blue-Wave Brigade).
MAY 15
2021
People You May Know: Screening and Director Q&A
Katharina Gellein Viken, co-director People You May Know, an exploration into the political alliance among religious fundamentalists, oligarchs, and Cambridge Analytica's shell companies that have fundamentally shifted the balance of politics in the United States.
FEB 25
2021
The Unholy Alliance: How Christian Nationalists, Plutocrats & Disinformation Platforms Sabotage Democracy
Anne Nelson, author of Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right.
AUG 20
2020
Media and Democracy - What You Can - and Need to Do
Robert W. McChesney, co-author of Rich Media. Poor Democracy" & "Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex Is Destroying America, co-founder of Free Press.
JUN 27
2020
The Brainwashing of My Dad: How the Rise of the Right-Wing Media Changed a Father and Divided Our Nation--And How We Can Fight Back: Screening and Director Q&A
Jen Senko, author: The Brainwashing of My Dad: How the Rise of the Right-Wing Media Changed a Father and Divided Our Nation--And How We Can Fight Back, and documentary film director.
MAY 28
2020
How to combat disinformation/misinformation
DEC 10
2019
Oligarchy vs Democracy - What Can Activists Do? A Q&A".
Anand Giridharadas, author of Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World.