"...On Friday July 26th, 2013, Asa Gordon, Chair of the DC Statehood Green Party
Electoral College Task Force and Secretary General of the Sons & Daughters
United States Colored Troops, presented a special version of the signature
African American Civil War Memorial "Historical Voting Rights" Civil War
Sesquicentennial Lecture: The USCT Legacy of National Redemption and Democracy (
How Black Civil War Veterans Reconstructed the Union and Established Democracy
in America) during the party's 2013 Annual Meeting in Iowa City, Iowa at the
Iowa Memorial Union, University of Iowa..."
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"...In
the aftermath of America's Civil War it was accepted that the union had been
saved, but "The reinauguration of the national authority-reconstruction" (A.
Lincoln) and the establishment of full participatory democracy was still very
much in doubt. The lecture presents ignored historical facts, and reveals the
hidden Civil Rights legacy of how Black Civil War veterans reconstituted the
nation in alignment with the DECLARATION and established the foundation of
citizens' voting rights in the United States of America.
The lecture was
adapted for the 2013_GPUSANM to provide explicit historical progressive
reconstruction era constitutional context for the "Democratize the Electoral
College Civil Action" Gordon et.al. vs Clerk of HOR now pending in Federal
Court. The lecture demonstrates how voter suppression tactics,
"Winner-take-all", and "Gerrymandered Districts" in national presidential
elections violates the electoral mandate of the second section of the Fourteenth
Amendment to the constitution adopted during Reconstruction. The presentation
also exposes that the misguided National Popular Vote (NPV) initiative is
grounded in a reactionary redemption era Supreme Court ruling that overturned
Reconstruction to reestablish white supremacy, and furthermore explicitly
violates the malapportionment clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Green Pages
has published a full online article based on this lecture that details the
contemporary context of the Federal Civil Action..."
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Asa Gordon_(202)635-7926
http://www.gp.org/speakers/detail-speakers.php?ID=29
Exe.
Dir. Douglass Institute of Government
Sec. Gen. Sons & Daughters United
States Colored Troops
Chair DC Statehood Green Party Electoral College Task
Force
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