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SUMMARY:Get Your Voice Heard
LOCATION:Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library - Central Library\nMartin
  Luther King Jr. Memorial Library - Central Library
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DESCRIPTION:Find out how to present your ideas to our city’s electe
 d officials by giving testimony or writing a letter..\nhttps://dclibrary.l
 ibnet.info/event/12788428
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Is there an issue you would like the DC Co
 uncil or the Mayor of DC to address? Find out how to present your ideas to
  our city&rsquo\;s elected officials by giving testimony or writing a lett
 er.</p>\n<p>This workshop will cover the purpose of the DC Council hearing
 s\, how the Mayor of DC addresses issues that affect DC residents\, follow
 ed by suggestions on how to write testimony and a letter to the Mayor or t
 he Council.</p>\n<p>This event will occur in the Auditorium located on the
  5th floor of the Martin Luther King Jr.\, Memorial Library.&nbsp\;</p>\n<
 p>All are welcome. Registration is encouraged but not required.</p>\n<p>Th
 is program is part of 'Our City\, Our Stories'\, a program series that fea
 tures informative programs about local government and governance and educa
 tes residents on how they can be involved in the process\, while also pres
 enting cultural programs featuring authors\, artists\, and subject matter 
 experts from Washington\, DC.</p>\n<h2><strong>ABOUT THE PRESENTER</strong
 ></h2>\n<p><strong><img src="https://static.libnet.info/frontend-images/ed
 itor/dclibrary/BenM.jpg" width="116" height="145" alt="" style="float: lef
 t\;" />&nbsp\;Ben Merrion</strong>&nbsp\;is an Adult Librarian at DCPL who
  has testified many times before the DC Council both representing the libr
 ary and as a board member of two different organizations. On his off time\
 ,&nbsp\; &nbsp\;he has led successful efforts in getting folks to testify 
 back in 2010 and 2011 to fight adult literacy cuts. He also led a successf
 ul effort as a board member of Collective Action for Safe Spaces to get&nb
 sp\; &nbsp\;the DC Metro to do something about the sexual harassment takin
 g place on trains and buses in 2012 that resulted in a PSA campaign agains
 t sexual harassment on the DC Metro system. That also&nbsp\; &nbsp\;involv
 ed helping folks testify before the DC Council.</p>\nhttps://dclibrary.lib
 net.info/event/12788428
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