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It's been somewhat quiet on the D.C. voting rights front in recent weeks, but that doesn't mean that the advocacy and education isn't marching along.
On Wednesday night, the folks at DC Vote will be screening Un-Natural State, a newish documentary made by local filmmakers Kirk Mangels and Brad Mendelsohn that highlights the District's longstanding disenfranchisement.
The viewing will include a discussion with former Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), who along with D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton worked until his retirement from Congress last year on the D.C. House Voting Rights Act. If you've got any grief with Davis' incrementalist approach to voting rights or just want to pick his brain on how best to get anything through Congress, this is your chance. (We hear the documentary is supposed to be quite good, too).
The film will be shown at 8 p.m. on Wednesday at The Avalon in Friendship Heights (5612 Connecticut Avenue NW). All tickets are $25 ($10 for members of DC Vote will get you a DC Vote membership) and go to support the organization's continuing advocacy for voting rights, home rule and budget autonomy.
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It's been somewhat quiet on the D.C. voting rights front in recent weeks
As it will be for the next 10 years. We had our chance and blew it.
The one thing that will put this issue over the top in Congress, and with the American people, is a poorly produced documentary film that will only be shown at a DC theatre in front of supporters willing to pay $25 for a ticket.
If the people running this "movement" for the last 30 years had been involved in the civil rights movement, we would still have segregated drinking fountains.
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How about EHN sits down with the Mayor and the Council and come up with a strategy that everyone could agree on? That's too logical i guess.