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Constitution Cafés at the Habeas Steps
​Cafés take place at the Habeas Steps installation at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park
Sundays, 2 - 4 PM
Free and Open to the Public. Complementary Copies of the U.S. Constitution will be avaialble.

​Sunday, December 11, 2016,  2 - 4 PM
Post Eection Update: Ranked Choice Voting and Other Voting Reforms
With ranked choice voting, voters can rank as many candidates as they want in order of choice. Candidates do best when they attract a strong core of first-choice support while also reaching out for second and even third choices. When used as an "instant runoff" to elect a single candidate like a mayor or a governor, RCV helps elect a candidate that better reflects the support of a majority of voters. When used as a form of fair representation voting to elect more than one candidate like a city council, state legislature or even Congress, RCV helps to more fairly represent the full spectrum of voters. Learn about this and other electoral innovations with Jennifer Pae, Director of FairVote. Fairvote is the nation's leader in seeking to make every vote and every voice count in every election through structural electoral reforms.

​Sunday, November 13th 2016,  2 - 4 PM
Can We Waterboard?
Donald Trump has vowed to use torture as part of his presidential campaign. "I like waterboarding a lot", he declared just earlier this week. On Sunday we will examine war and the U.S. Constitution with David Glazier of Loyola Law School. We will look at the war clause and international agreements, including the Convention Against Torture, among other treaties.
 
David Glazier is a Professor of Law at Loyola Law School and a 21 year veteran with the US Navy as a surface warfare officer. Prior joining Loyola Law School, he was a research fellow at the Center for National Security Law, where he conducted research on national security, military justice and the law of war. He also served as a pro bono consultant to Human Rights First.


​Sunday, November 6th 2016, 2 - 4 PM

The Right to Vote and the State of Democracy in America; Past, Present, and Future
with Andrew Gumbel, author and correspondent for The Guardian, among other publications.
This Constitution Café asks, "Why is the United States of America unable to run clean, transparent elections, and how does this threaten its Constitutional Democracy?"

Andrew Gumbel is an award-winning journalist and author with a long track record as an investigative reporter, political columnist, magazine writer and foreign correspondent. He has written extensively about law enforcement and the justice system, about politics and politicians, and about the intersection between entertainment, celebrity and the wider world. He recently completed a thorough revision o his history of electoral corruption in the United States, Down for the Count: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America, published by The New Press. Learn more about his work here http://www.andrewgumbel.com

  • HOME
  • ORIGINS
  • ALL PROJECTS
    • CONSTITUTION CAFES/HAPPY HOURS
    • Habeas Lounge
    • Playing the Constitution
    • Patriot
    • Kiss Me I'm Voting!
  • PAST CAFES, HAPPY HOURS
    • MDC PANDEMIC SERIES
    • UCLA Hammer Museum_II
    • Paper or Plastik Cafe
    • Verge Center for the Arts Sacramento
    • LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS LOS ANGELES
    • UCLA HAMMER MUSEUM_I
    • Occidental College
    • Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
    • Neshaminy High School, Levittown PA
    • Torrance Art Museum, Torrance CA
    • League of Women Voters Greater Dayton Area
    • Scripps College, Claremont CA
    • CUNY Graduate Center, NYC
    • 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica
    • Indianapolis Museum of Art
    • Los Angeles
    • Republican National Convention, NYC
    • Seattle WA
    • Cincinnati OH
    • NYC
    • Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
  • CONTACT