The Power of Editorial Cartoonists for Democracy

This event is a Q&A with Pulitzer Prize Winner Anne Telnaes 

When: Thursday, May 29th
Time: 6pmMST - 7:30pmMST 
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About the event from Mobilize: 
"Ann Telnaes is a Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist and vocal advocate for press freedom. We will discuss with her the role and power of editorial cartoonists in democracies - and how we can support and better appreciate their work.

Infamously, in 2025 her draft editorial cartoon was rejected outright by Washington Post opinion editor and fellow Jeff Bezos employee David Shipley.

The cartoon featured Jeff Bezos (Amazon/Whole Foods/Zappos/Twitch/Ring/Audible), Sam Altman (OpenAI), Mark Zuckerberg (Meta/Facebook/Instagram/Threads/WhatsApp), Patrick Soon-Shiong (Los Angeles Times), and Mickey Mouse (employee of Disney-ABC).

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Sign up for her blog “Open Windows” to access and receive her powerful editorial cartoons to your INBOX https://anntelnaes.substack.com

Learn more about her and her body of work at https://anntelnaes.com

“As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that critical job. So I have decided to leave the Post. I doubt my decision will cause much of a stir and that it will be dismissed because I’m just a cartoonist. But I will not stop holding truth to power through my cartooning, because as they say, “Democracy dies in darkness”. - Ann Telnaes."