Date: Thursday, April 16, 2020 Time: 7:00 p.m. – 8:15 p.m. (EST)
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As we all work to flatten the curve, governments and private companies alike are using drones and cell phone trackers to monitor citizens’ movements. It seems that everyone is letting video conferencing services see into our homes and listen to our private conversations without necessarily knowing where that data will go. Should we temporarily sacrifice our civil liberties in order to fight the coronavirus pandemic, or might the sacrifices we make now harm us later? The Brennan Center’s Faiza Patel will join the ACLU-NJ’s Amol Sinha and moderator Angélique Roché for this virtual conversation. They’ll discuss who has the power to restrict our lives and encroach on our privacy, the precedents for rolling back rights during emergencies, who is most affected by these law enforcement and security measures, and what it all means for the future.

Speakers: Join Faiza Patel, Director of the Brennan Center’s Liberty & National Security Program, and Amol Sinha, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union-New Jersey, for this livestream. Journalist Angélique Roché will moderate.

Produced in partnership with The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WNYC / WQXR.

Date: Monday, April 20, 2020 Time: 6:00 p.m. – 7:15 p.m. (EST)
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Efforts to get out the count for the 2020 Census have begun despite severe headwinds. While the Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration’s attempts to add a citizenship question last year, concerns about the safety of participating in the once-in-a-decade count could still depress response rates. Also threatening the count are concerns about how the coronavirus will affect responses. The stakes are significant: the Census will determine the distribution of political power for the next decade. And America’s immigrant communities and communities of color face the biggest challenges to being counted fully and fairly. To keep the Census on track, a national network of lawyers and allies has been working around the clock on advocacy, organizing, litigation, communications, and more.

Speakers: Join Janai Nelson, Associate Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Adriel I. Cepeda Derieux, Staff Attorney, ACLU Voting Rights Project, and Thomas Wolf, Counsel with the Brennan Center for Justice’s Democracy Program, for an important conversation about the efforts to guide the 2020 count safely. Osita Nwanevu, staff writer at the New Republic, leads this discussion.

Produced in partnership with the Brooklyn Historical Society and New York University's John Brademas Center.