HR!Day557 - The Critical Secretary of State Challenge
Day 557 Tue 10/11/22 The Critical Secretary of State Challenge
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We are living in a time in history when the tattered remains of the once proud Republican party has rejected the fundamental principles it once stood for and now even refuses to put forward a clear and constructive platform and agenda to address the systemic problems facing our nation. Instead, the single focus of what is now caålled the MAGA Party is to use any and all means, not to mention, billions of dollars of dark money, distortions lies and divisions to engineer control the election process.
To this end, not only have they put in place an avalanche of laws in many of our states that seek to restrict voting and redistrict boundaries to ensure the control by the minority, but this sad excuse for a political party has also put forward a slate of candidates who are running for major local, state and national offices as election deniers who have declared that if elected they will do all in the power to ensure that the will of the people can be overturned if they do not like the outcome of elections.
At the heart of this effort is the effort to either elect Secretaries of State that will willingly collude in this process or to elect election-denying Governors who will appoint people to this position who will do their bidding.
In the face of this threat, the greatest in this 246+ year history of this nation, it is clear that women – democrats, republicans and independents -are our most potent force and best line of defense.
So our featured guests, Eleanor Le Cane former Assistant Secretary of State from Massachusetts, Jena Griswald, current Secretary of State from Colorado (in a prerecorded interview) and Benafsheh Sayyad, passionate supporter of women’s rights and the current revolt by the women of Iran, will explore this subject with us.
Featured Guests
- Eleanor Le Cane, Former Massachusetts Assistant Secretary of State, Executive Director of Blueprint 2000, leading strategic planning for the state government. Eleanor advises candidates and policymakers on issues and strategy. She was the top issues advisor to candidate Marianne Williamson and then advisor to the Biden 2020 presidential campaign. Eleanor helped elect Elizabeth Warren to the US Senate, and many other candidates win races for school committee, city council, state legislature, and statewide offices. She is also an inspirational speaker, author, and advisor to policymakers
- Jena Griswold - Colorado’s 39th Secretary of State and the youngest Secretary of State in the country. She was elected by her peers in 2021 to Chair the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State. She grew up working class in rural Colorado and knows how important it is for everyday Americans to have their voices heard in our democracy. In 2019, Griswold spearheaded and passed into law one of the largest democracy reform packages in the nation. This year, she is a leading voice in expanding mail ballots to every eligible American. Before assuming office, Griswold had practiced international anti-corruption law, business law, election law. She also served as the Director of the Colorado Governor’s DC Office, where she helped bring back hundreds of millions of relief dollars to help the Colorado communities hit by the 2013 flood. In 2018, Jena was elected as the first democratic Secretary of State in Colorado since 1958, the first democratic woman Secretary of State in Colorado’s history, and only the 10th woman in Colorado’s history to hold current statewide constitutional office. www.jenaforcolorado.com
- Banafsheh Sayyad is a sacred dancer, choreographer, teacher of embodiment and an activist dedicated to women’s rights, especially in Islamic countries. She is the founding director of Dance of Oneness®, Doctor of Chinese Medicine, and co-director of the Ubiquity Chartres Academy. Banafsheh performs and teaches internationally, initiating people into the wisdom of their bodies, inspiring them to live their everyday life as a sacred dance. She is among the few bearers of authentic Persian dance in the world, and a pioneer in creating a liberated feminine expression in the Sufi dance genre previously performed only by men. Her modality, Dance of Oneness® is dance as a spiritual path and science of embodiment. It is a fusion of the art of dance: rigorous technique and self-expression; healing; and wisdom teachings. With an MFA in Choreography and an MA in Chinese Medicine, Banafsheh is dedicated to individual and collective healing through conscious dance. She currently teaches courses online. https://danceofoneness.org/
Co-convener:
- Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University
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