Cville Dems

The Charlottesville Democratic Committee

​​Support Josh Throneburg’s Campaign in this Final Pre-Election Month!

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Josh Throneburg campaign poster showing Josh, his wife, and two children standing in a meadowIf you want to help the Josh’s Campaign #FlipThe5th and unseat Bob (No)Good, you have lots of good ways to pitch in these last four weeks:
1. Josh Throneburg fundraiser Friday, Oct. 14, 5-7pm
Hosts are Susan and L.F. Payne. Tickets start at $50; RSVP online or call 540-309-7392.
2. Come out to “Turn Out the Vote Thursdays” (5-7pm at Ix Art Park)
There’ll be a bit of socializing and a good bit of election action! If you plan to attend, please sign up using this link: https://www.mobilize.us/joshforvirginia/event/475179/ There will be training on MiniVAN for those who need a refresher or haven’t ever used it (don’t worry, it’s not hard!).
3. Other weekly opportunities you can sign up for at https://www.mobilize.us/joshforvirginia/
  • Tuesdays: Virtual Phone Banking (6:30-8:30pm)
  • Wednesdays: Nights Virtual Phone Bank (6:30-8:30pm)
  • Thursdays: Virtual Phone Bank (6:30-8:30pm) led by J4VA & Generation Ratify Virginia
  • Saturday Canvassing in Charlottesville (10am-Noon , 1-3pm) — meet at Josh’s Pantops office at 302 Hickman Rd. in the parking lot at the back of the building, where the office entrance is! Before you arrive it’s a crucial time saver that you download the “Minivan” app (for Apple or Android phones/tablets) we use to take down and input our canvassing data.

If you want to see Bob Good sent packing, it’s time to roll up your sleeves and take action!

Prof. Danielle Citron on Privacy, Surveillance, and Love in the Digital Age (October 11)

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UVA Law Professor and MacArthur Fellow Danielle Citron, an international expert on online privacy, will speak about the latest developments at the intersection of technology, public policy, and our daily Internet-driven lives at 6:45pm Tuesday October 11th at the Downtown Library’s Swanson Case Room and also on Zoom. Prof. Citron will be “in conversation” with UVA History Prof. William Hitchcock, co-host of the Democracy in Danger podcast, and Q&A will follow. Copies of Prof. Citron’s new book The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (coming out the week before she speaks!) will be available for purchase. All are welcome, please mark your calendars and join us!
 
Front cover of Danille Citron book "The Fight for Privacy"For the past decade, Citron has worked with lawmakers, law enforcement and tech companies to combat online abuse and to protect intimate privacy. In June 2019, she testified before Congress about the national security and privacy risks of deepfakes. She has been involved in reform efforts around the regulation of online platforms. In October 2019, she testified before Congress about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. From 2014 to 2016, Citron served as an advisor to then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris and as a member of Harris’ Task Force to Combat Cyber Exploitation and Violence Against Women. In 2011, Citron testified about misogynistic cyber hate speech before the Inter-Parliamentary Committee on Anti-Semitism at the House of Commons in the United Kingdom. Since 2011, she has been a member of Facebook’s Non-Consensual Intimate Imagery Task Force and an adviser and a member of Twitter’s Trust and Safety Task Force and as an adviser to the company since 2009. She is an adviser to the dating app Bumble, the music streaming service Spotify, and video sharing platform TikTok.
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Full Committee Meeting (Monday 10/24, 6:30 pm)

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cartoon people sitting around a meeting tableWe’ll be meeting at the Central Library’s Swanson Case Room, but you can also attend over Zoom; please contact cvilledemschair@gmail.com if you’re not on the committee and would like the Zoom login information.

The main business of the meeting will be pulling together all of our energies and organization to get Josh Throneberg across the finish line victorious! We’ll also provide some updates on voting-reform issues such as proposals for ranked-choice voting, as well as the urgent business of the Governor’s destructive policies on (1) transgender students in public schools and (2) withdrawal from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).

Voter Registration and Voter Information (updated information)

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graphic showing a ballot being submitted via insertion into a box with a narrow slit at the top. into Now that Virginia is a same-day registration state, some of the rules are a bit different! Complete info is on our voting info page, but two things we’ll flag here:
  1. After regular voter registration ends on October 17, people living in Charlottesville who are eligible to become Virginia voters can, from 10/18-11/5, go to the Registrar’s Office (City Hall Annex, 7th St. NE off of Market St.) to register to vote and cast a provisional ballot.
  2. Even on Election Day (11/ 8) itself, they can go to their mailing address-based polling place, fill out a voter registration application form, and cast a provisional ballot (to find the right polling place, refer to the updated webpage above or call the Voter Registration Office at 434-970-3250).
These are important changes, please spread the word!

Dahlia Lithwick 9/22 recap (and link to event recording)

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LegaDahlia Lithwick portrait, wearing a blue blouse against a black backgroundl commentator Dahlia Lithwick knocked it out of the park when she returned to town 9/22 to speak to us (and the general public) about her great new book (now officially a NY Times bestseller!!) Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America. Her conversation with Amy Woolard was informative and inspiring… at times heartwarming and very personal… we all went for a ride.

If you missed the event, or want to share with friends, or just enjoyed it so much that you want to listen/watch it again, the recording is online at https://nowcomment.com/documents/328151 (with annotations showing what questions were asked when).

Our next speaker event: Tuesday October 11, 6:45pm: Prof. Danielle Citron on Privacy, Surveillance, and Love in the Digital Age; in conversation with Prof. William Hitchcock, she’ll talk about her brand new book The Fight for Privacy. Full information at https://cvilledems.org/event/prof-danielle-citron/