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This lecture begins with a discussion of California's ballot measure Prop 16 which seeks to overturn Prop 209, the 1996 ban on affirmative action in the state. This discussion considers both the history of California ballot measures and looks closely at how ballot measures have remade racial liberalism in postwar California.

Matt Nelson is Executive Director of Presente.org, the nation's largest online Latinx organizing group dedicated to advancing social justice with technology, media, and culture.

This lecture kicks off with Professor Jayaraman's discussion of "astroturf" social movements and the growing battle around California's Ballot Propositions 15 and 22.

This panel features leaders and experts addressing these unprecedented times and all the challenges confronting Election 2020. What can we do to make voters' voices heard during an unprecedented pandemic and a historic civil rights uprising?