Program on November Election

Program on November Election

RESCHEDULED for Thur, April 6 at 7 pm

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On Thursday, April 6, Pam Wilmot will lead a program about the November election and the current state of voting rights and access around the country.  Wilmot is the Executive Director of Common Cause Massachusetts and will describe how congressional districts have been redrawn since the 2010 Census and how and whythis “new age of Gerrymandering” is undermining our democracy.  In addition she will address about the current state of the Electoral College and explain why it no longer serves the original purpose of our country’s Founders.

This program is part of the First Church in Salem’s “Resistance” Speaker Series for 2017.  Over the course of the next 12 months the congregation is hosting a series of programs dealing with major social and political issues facing the United States.