Schedule
Week 4 - October 13-17
Wednesday - October 15
12:30-1:30 Bldg 8 room 302
Caucus Discussion series: "Are Americans ready for...race and
gender in politics?"
Thursday, October 16
12:10-1:10 pm HSU Mt. Constance
State Legislative Candidate Forum
Short candidate presentations followed by Legislative District
conversations for districts 30 and 33.
Sponsored by HCEA, Allan Walton, contact.
Week 5 – October 20-24
Tuesday, October 21
12:10 – 1:10 pm Bldg 7
Government and Elections in Other Countries
A student discussion panel
Contact: T.M. Sell, HCC
Student perspectives on government and elections in other
countries. Students at Highline with the Community College Summit
Initiative Program from Egypt, Pakistan, Brazil, South Africa,
Turkey, and Indonesia will be the speakers.
Wednesday, October 22
12:30-1:30 Bldg 8 room 302
Caucus Discussion series: "Students voted and why/how they
matter."
Thursday, October 23
11:00- 11:50 am, 12:10 – 1:10 pm Building 2
& 1:20 – 2:20 pm
Highline Listens: Brian Turner
Contact: Susan Rich, Literature, HCC
Three events with Iraq War veteran and poet Brian Turner.
11:00 – 11:50 am Creative writing workshop
12:10 – 1:10 pm Highline Listens poetry reading
1:20 – 2:20 pm Additional discussion
October 20-24
Latino Awareness Week
Additional programs sponsored by the student United Latino Assoc.
Monday, October 27
10:00 – 10:50 and 11:00 – 11:50 am HSU Mt. Constance
Judicial Elections panel
Contact: Joy Smucker, Paralegal, HCC
The panelists will include:Justice Barbara Madsen (Washington State Supreme Court)
Retired King County Judge Michael Spearman (and former
candidate for WA Supreme Court) now a Private Mediator
Judge Jean Rietschel (City of Seattle Municipal Court and
candidate for Superior Court)
10-10:50
Democracy and the Importance of Judicial Elections.
1) a basic primer of judges, courts, and the election
process for judges in WA
2) federal/state; who you elect as President may
decide who will serve on the Supreme Court
3) the intersection of law and justice; what is the
court’s role with respect to the law, activism and judicial
restraint
11-11:50
Democracy and the Importance of Judicial Elections.
1) A basic primer of judges, courts and the election
process for judges in WA
2) The impact of lobbying, PAC’s, and the financing of
judicial campaigns
3) Access to justice: what is happening in the courts?
Civil? Criminal?
Tuesday, October 28
10:00 – 10:50 pm HSU Mt. Constance
Reading of winning
"Who am I, politically?"
Identity Politics in 2008
essays and discussion.
Angi Caster, Writing, Coordinator
A panel discussion of participants in the "Who am I politically?"
essay contest.
500 wd. category:
1st prize : Adam Tesch
2nd prize: Rebecca Ball
Honorable mention: Jewel Santiago and Rikki-Rachelle Hinz
1500 wd. category:
1st prize: Morgan Maki
2nd prize: Megan Riggs
Honorable mention: Lesley Elijah and Alexa Larson
Week 7 – November 6-10
Tuesday, November 4
Election Day!
Documentary Film Series
Every Monday, September 29 – November 3
1:30 pm HSU Mt Skokomish
Kevin Stanley, Economics, HCC
Patricia McDonald, Education, HCC
A series of documentary films related to current social, political,
and economic issues.
Tentative Schedule
September 29th: Sicko
October 6th: Why We Fight
October 13th: Taxi to the Darkside
October 20th: Iraq in Fragments
October 27th: Who Killed the Electric Car?
November 3:An Inconvenient Truth
Possibly including a public viewing of the debates.
Essay Contest!
On the topic of "Who am I, politically?" Short (<500 words) and Long
(>500, max 1500 words) essays due 10/20, 5 pm in building 5. The contest
culminates in the Tuesday, October 28, reading and discussion session.
Coordinator: Angi Caster
About Defining Democracy 2008
This program was started in 2004.
Links
Links to the video
streams of the Highline Votes events:
Last updated:
October 30, 2008
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