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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Hi everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>You are invited to come to my next workshop, <b>Beyond Voting: Elections and Campaign Finance. </b>Check out the description; we cover a lot of territory. This is a great opportunity to see what you can have at your library. These workshops are high quality, information-rich, and I always provide comprehensive Resource Lists. Every participant has said they enjoy them and would recommend them [I give out evaluation forms]! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>I would love to see us do an outcomes-based study on the effect of the workshops on civic attitudes and participation. If we could show that people actually improve their knowledge, thinking and/or behavior, how wonderful would that be for the library world. Since I have taught evaluation and assessment at Emporia, was the L-net evaluator after the pilot year, and have conducted numerous needs assessments when consulting, I guess you could say this is a match made in heaven. Think about this for your library system.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Donna<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Here are the latest updates from my Civics for Adults Facebook page. I’ve been posting some very helpful resources – don’t want you folks to miss out!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2129;background:white'>Here is a short but significant piece from NPR a couple of days ago highlighting the importance of reading opinions from across the political spectrum. "Chait says that making sure he reads and hears other sides of an argument is just common sense."<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><a href="http://www.npr.org/2016/07/24/487237194/to-break-through-the-news-feed-echo-chamber-political-opinion-writers-read-oppos">http://www.npr.org/2016/07/24/487237194/to-break-through-the-news-feed-echo-chamber-political-opinion-writers-read-oppos</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2129;background:white'>FYI, this is the suit being brought by some Sanders supporters against Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who, in her role as head of the Democratic National Committee, was to be impartial in terms of Democratic candidates. Suit says she wasn't. Note: description of issues begins on page 17.<a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/317136795/DNC-lawsuit#fullscreen&from_embed">https://www.scribd.com/document/317136795/DNC-lawsuit#fullscreen&from_embed</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2129;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2129;background:white'>Here is the Oregon Secretary of State's Elections homepage. You will find manuals about all aspects of elections in Oregon and searchable databases - like one for campaign finances. We'll give this a [very] quick review in the Elections workshop coming up.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white'><a href="http://sos.oregon.gov/voting-elections/Pages/default.aspx">http://sos.oregon.gov/voting-elections/Pages/default.aspx</a></span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2129;background:white'>Ballotpedia has a good section on PACS and SuperPACS. This is an issue we will discuss in the next workshop on Aug 2 and 11. "Dark money", too, which is money for which no disclosure is required. Come get these campaign finance terms sorted out! Learn basic "campaign literacy".<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span class=4mcd><span style='font-family:Wingdings;color:#1D2129;background:white'>J</span></span><span class=4mcd><i><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2129;background:white'> </span></i></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2129;background:white'> </span></span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><a href="https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fballotpedia.org%2FPACs_and_Super_PACs&h=6AQFidKIdAQEkFH2x-mvoM3ybliVAZEY1K2E5Fl6eQA-Qbg&enc=AZMNVw3CRoTVXMUjHQvdeRXW3A8Ys5RqedYKJ28O_vBIsbbKdsrd3trDF0tfwW049f3wl9lpaF3D3HsYhJCcvoB311kZiaHpux1tw0-u1cC_zza4M5SrNqidlpb_rGNNOG0rahWv4CaAcp-iMjgM3EtqQHE1T60VeOSqBxdHDwRCM0NFRemyQx7nvbqVIxriwi8P-ch8iCgoUcxwU_fGLSQY&s=1" target="_blank"><span style='color:#365899;background:white;text-decoration:none'>https://ballotpedia.org/PACs_and_Super_PACs</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2129;background:white'>Some amazing visualizations - as well as data on many types of contributions to state, and some local, campaigns at<span class=apple-converted-space> http:</span></span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><a href="http://followthemoney.org/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#365899;background:white'>followthemoney.org</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><img border=0 width=220 height=161 style='width:2.2916in;height:1.6805in' id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D1E81B.015231E0" alt="https://scontent.fsnc1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/13735701_1628407177487539_5640449764059810888_o.png"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2129;background:white'>In the Misinformation workshop I talk about using research guides from university libraries as starting points from which to find good resources. Here's one from Harvard on Campaigns and Elections.</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2129'><br></span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><a href="http://guides.library.harvard.edu/c.php?g=310717&p=2072693" target="_blank"><span style='color:#365899;background:white;text-decoration:none'>http://guides.library.harvard.edu/c.php?g=310717&p=2072693</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2129;background:white'>In my research on campaign finance reform I'm coming across some interesting ideas. The "STOP Act", HR 2931 - Restoring Integrity to America's Elections Act. Come to the workshop to learn more.</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-would-be-a-nice-first-step-on-campaign-finance-reform/2016/06/10/745de05a-2e69-11e6-b5db-e9bc84a2c8e4_story.html">https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-would-be-a-nice-first-step-on-campaign-finance-reform/2016/06/10/745de05a-2e69-11e6-b5db-e9bc84a2c8e4_story.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=720 height=931 style='width:7.5in;height:9.7013in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D1E819.C1DCE240" alt=Flyer-Voting-Belmont-and-Hollywood-Aug2016><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>See you soon, I hope.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Donna<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Donna L Cohen, MEd, MLIS<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Portland, Oregon<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>503-737-1425<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:citizen@civicthinker.net">citizen@civicthinker.net</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='color:#9E0000'>Civics for Adults Workshop Series: To Enhance Civic Knowledge and Inspire Political Engagement<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='color:#9E0000'>Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Civics-for-Adults-1490728887922036/">https://www.facebook.com/Civics-for-Adults-1490728887922036/</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal> <span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>