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Tuesday April 12, 2011

Assessing Consequences of Rancor in Political Discourse

Posted by AAI at 8:20 am

Today from 12pm to 1:30 pm, the Center For American Progress (CAP) will convene a panel of experts entitled: Choosing our words Carefully: The Consequences of Heated Rhetoric to address the rise in xenophobic and bigoted rhetoric in politics and its affect on various ethnic and religious communities throughout the country. Citing the assassination attempt on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona, the panel will also assess how heated political discourse has the potential to encourage already irascible and discontent individuals to violence. This event will be live-streamed and we encourage you to tune in. AAI president Jim Zogby is among the featured panelists.

Watch The Event Live

 

Featured panelists:

Jim Kolbe, Former Arizona Congressman
James Zogby, President, Arab American Institute
Robert P. Jones, CEO and Founder, Public Religion Research Institute
Andrea Nill, Immigration Researcher-Blogger, ThinkProgress.org

Moderator:

Angela Kelley, Vice President for Immigration Policy and Advocacy, Center for American Progress


Related AAI Material:
Poll: American Views on Arab and Muslim Americans September, 2010

Report: Leadership or Pandering: Grading our Elected Officials

 

 

 

Tagged as Issues, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Islamophobia, Profiling, Peter King Hearings, Park 51, Immigration Reform, Arizona/SB1070

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