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AALJ Symposium 2008
“Majority/Minority State: Turning Power in Numbers into Power at the Polls in 2008 ”
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February 22, 2008
Booth Auditorium, Boalt Hall at UC Berkeley
With Keynote address by political cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz, creator of the La Cucaracha comic strip.
What?
A strategy-focused and skills-based symposium aimed an answering the following questions:
- Now that California is a "majority-minority" state, how can communities of color realize their potential electoral power?
- How can lawyers, advocates, and activists in California's communities of color work to increase access to the electoral process and strategically build political influence?
- How can the issues that impact communities of color be framed to build connections between minorities rather than emphasize divisions?
When and Where?
February 22, 2008 at Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley
Why?
- State electoral politics, particularly the referendum process, has been used in the past fifteen years to weaken people of color's access to political power and public institutions.
- In light of the upcoming election, this symposium is aimed developing strategies to overcome low voter turnout in communities of color and to tackle obstacles to coalition building among these communities.
- The symposium will also include workshops, training participants to become poll observers and legal observers and to understand electoral strategy, equipping them with some of the skills necessary to protect and enhance our communities' democratic voices.
This symposium is sponsored by Berkeley La Raza Law Journal, Asian American Law Journal, Berkeley Journal of African American Law and Policy, Berkeley Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Law, the Earl Warren Institute on Race Ethnicity and Diversity, and the Equal Justice Society.