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A Voter's Guide

Traditional voting guides often tell you who to vote for. Our Voter's Guide instead asks: what issues and urgencies are at stake in this particular moment? What voices, experiences, and histories are vital to this election? 

We have selected projects from our extensive archive that foreground voices of those most directly impacted by the issues at hand. The issues raised in these conversations—including racism, mass incarceration, immigration, climate justice, public health, and housing insecurity—reflect concerns intimately familiar to all Americans, and they have only intensified since these projects were first staged.

"...Today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools that the whales have fled... and where human greed has plundered Mother Earth's innards and turned human genes into factories for profit. They will inherit a diminished planet where fresh water is increasingly rare, and where fresh air is a commodity... We live in a world that fears and hates its young. How else can one explain the bequest of such a foul, polluted, and hollow inheritance?"

⁠— Mumia Abu-Jamal

 

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The Future of Democracy
Democracy Rising
Democracy Rising

A symposium and workshop about the politics of upheaval and the contradictions of democracy

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The Counter Revolution
The Counter Revolution

A talk by writer and political analyst Peter Zilahy exploring the parallel universes of political thinking and the rise of far-right populism

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Civic War and the Corruption of the Citizen
Civic War and the Corruption of the Citizen

A conversation with Peter Alexander Meyers and others on citizenship, violence, and the continuation of the Cold War

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Racial Justice and Mass Incarceration
The Shadow of the State: From Tyrone West to Freddie Gray
The Shadow of the State: From Tyrone West to Freddie Gray

A series of conversations about Baltimore and how photography and protest can challenge our perceptions of the ghetto

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The Politics of Race in America
The Politics of Race in America

A conversation with Jonathan Metzl, Dorothy Roberts, and Anthea Butler about Dying of Whiteness and the politics of racial resentment

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We are powerful.
We are powerful.

An evening of conversation with Philadelphia's top reentry experts, a group of formerly incarcerated individuals who power the Reentry Think Tank

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Health, Gun Reform, and Housing Insecurity
Trapped by Undue Burden
Trapped by Undue Burden

A screening and conversation about the use of legal mechanisms in restricting access to abortion and social equality

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Mass Shootings and the Quest for Fame
Mass Shootings and the Quest for Fame

A conversation about the representation of mass violence from David Bowie to Parkland, with survivor and activist Samantha Fuentes

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Righteous Dopefiend
Righteous Dopefiend

A photo-ethnographic collaboration with Philippe Bourgois about homelessness, addiction, and poverty in urban America

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Climate change and the environment
Metabolic Rift
Metabolic Rift

A film festival about contemporary scenes of social justice and environmental activism

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Environments of Modernity
Environments of Modernity

A symposium about cultural and political agency in an era of global climate change

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North
North

Programs with architects and urbanists at Territorial Agency exploring climate change and the geography of conflicts of the northern territories

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Immigration Activism and Reform
Advocacy, Activism and Immigration
Advocacy, Activism and Immigration

A conversation about the effects of U.S. immigration policy on immigrants and refugees and strategies for social justice

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Forum for Other Citizenships
Forum for Other Citizenships

A series of conversations about citizenship and other forms of belonging and kinship

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