{"id":1866,"date":"2010-11-18T15:38:24","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T20:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/?p=1866"},"modified":"2015-06-19T13:31:51","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T17:31:51","slug":"gerrymandering-screenings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2010\/11\/18\/gerrymandering-screenings\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerrymandering screenings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I spoke on a panel with director Jeff Reichert at a screening of the Gerrymandering at Yale Law School Room 129 in New Haven CT. The event was organized by Common Cause Connecticut, American Constitution Society and Yale Law School Democrats. Many of the key advocates for ending prison-based gerrymandering were there, including Common Cause Connecticut Executive Director Cheri Quickmire, State Representative Gary Holder-Winfield, and former state Representative Bill Dyson.<\/p>\n<p>Turnout was great, and the discussion was excellent. Screenings like these are key to raising awareness and building more momentum for reform. But what&#8217;s missing? You.<\/p>\n<p>We need to organize more screenings of the film. The next one that I&#8217;ll be attending is not until <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=160073770696308&#038;ref=ts\">Dec. 9 in Marblehead Mass<\/a>. If you can&#8217;t make it to Massachusetts, <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/contact.html\">contact us<\/a> or director Jeff Reichert about scheduling a screening near you.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the trailer:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kurAB5ridko?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kurAB5ridko?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>or my little part in the film:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wzh32Zp_PYk?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wzh32Zp_PYk?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I spoke on a panel with director Jeff Reichert at a screening of the Gerrymandering at Yale Law School Room 129 in New Haven CT. The event was organized by Common Cause Connecticut, American Constitution Society and Yale Law School Democrats. Many of the key advocates for ending prison-based gerrymandering were there, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"coauthors":[29],"class_list":["post-1866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1866"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}