SASHA ABRAMSKY
Saturday, May 20 at 2 p.m.

Co-presented with the AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION of WASHINGTON. Demos fellow and journalist Sasha Abramsky estimates the number of Americans who have lost the ability to vote due to past felony convictions at over four million. His timely new book, Conned: How Millions Went to Prison, Lost the Vote, and Helped Send George W. Bush to the White House (New Press), a good part of which focuses on Washington State, examines the roots of these laws and the erosion of America's democratic ideals through over-incarceration and disenfranchisement. "Conned convincingly illustrates how universal adult suffrage continues to be a 'dream deferred' for too many Americans. It is an outstanding book with a powerful message." - Manning Marable.

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