Dear Friend,

Need some hope ahead of the 2020 election? We’re thrilled to announce the release of Sophie Sartain’s new film, Birddog Nation, profiling activists and leaders of the Center for Popular Democracy as we work to hold the powerful accountable.

Join us for a private invitation-only screening, including a talk forward panel discussion with director Sophie Sartain, this Thursday, July 9—buy your ticket today!

Through protest marches, grassroots organizing and a tactic known as “bird dogging,” the leaders of the Birddog Nation set the women on a path deeper and more radical than they ever imagined. Can they team up for another Blue Wave in 2020?

Featuring Jennifer Epps-Addison, Tracey Corder, Jennifer Flynn Walker, and many devoted CPD organizers, the Birddog Nation documentary follows the fearless women who helped flip the House in 2018. It also includes the powerful stories of Ady Barkan, a father of two diagnosed with ALS who is fighting for democracy with his last breath, and Ana Maria Archila, a sexual assault survivor who confronted Senator Jeff Flake on an elevator during Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings.

Join us this Thursday for a screening and panel discussion. Buy your ticket here!

Funds raised from the screening will support CPD’s work to divest funds from policing and criminalization to invest back into communities most harmed by systemic racism and our criminal justice system.

See you there,

Jennifer Epps-Addison
Network President & Co-Executive Director, CPD

P.S. If you’d like to get involved with Birddog Nation, we’re hosting a free training after the screening on Friday, July 10—a one-hour session in partnership with Demand Justice. This training will focus on the federal judiciary, particularly its impact on communities of color, low-income communities, immigrants, LGBTQ people, and others. Register for the training here.