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Monday, February 17, 2014
Chris Hedges to Keynote March 29 CT Civil Liberties Conference
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Boston sponsors include United
for Justice with Peace (UJP) and United National Antiwar Committee
(UNAC).
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at marilynl@alumni.neu.edu or call 781-316-2018.
Update on Program
for March 29 Conference
Journalist
Chris Hedges to Keynote Chris Hedges is a former New York Times reporter,
Pulitizer-Prize wining journalist, columnist for Truthdig, author of 12 books,
and was a plaintiff in the historic lawsuit “Hedges vs. Obama,” a court
challenge to the indefinite detention provisions of the National Defense
Authorization Act. Hedges left the Times shortly after they issued him a formal
reprimand for publicly denouncing the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Hedges is the
author of the best-sellers American Fascists: The Christian Right
and the War on America, Death of the Liberal
Class, and War
Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. He co-authored with Laila
Al-Arian, Collateral
Damage: America’s War Against Iraqi Civilians. His most recent
book is Days of Destruction,
Days of Revolt, a collaboration with comics artist and journalist
Joe Sacco and a brutally honest account of their travels through America’s
“sacrifice zones” — areas of the country that have suffered and decayed as a
result of exploitation in the name of profit and corporate power. Hedges is
currently a senior fellow at the Nation Institute, and has taught at Columbia
University, New York University, and Princeton University. He received his B.A.
in English Literature from Colgate University and a Master of Divinity degree
from Harvard University.
Join
us at One
Nation—Under Surveillance
A One-Day Conference about Building
Networks of Solidarity in Defiance of NSA Spying & the
Erosion of Democratic Rights
Saturday,
March 29, 2014 –10:00 a.m Torp Theater, Davidson Hall, Central
Connecticut State University 1615 Stanley Street, New Britain
CT Registration: Solidarity Price: $25;
Non-CCSU Students & Underemployed: $10. Scholarships will be available. CCSU
Students Admitted for Free.
Join
us on March 29, 2014 at Central Connecticut State University for the second
annual state civil liberties conference initiated by the CT Coalition to Stop Indefinite
Detention, the CT American Civil Liberties Union, the CT Council on American
Islamic Relations, and United Action of CT. We will explore the
links between NSA spying, domestic drones, and official Islamophobia, as well as
the policies of mass incarceration and mass deportation that are currently in
place. Sponsors include the Tree of Life Foundation and the United
National Antiwar Coalition. Endorsers include the National Lawyers Guild of CT,
Know Drones, Middle East Crisis Committee, Promoting Enduring Peace, the Norwich
and New London chapters of the NAACP, and the Norwich Area Greeen
Party.
Additional speakers, panelists, and
workshop leaders include:
Robert King, One of the Angola Three.
Robert King is one of the most famous former political prisoners
in the world. He served 29 years in solitary confinement before his conviction
was overturned and was one of a group of three African-American activists
victimized for their political activism as members of the Black Panther Party.
King has spoken before the parliaments of the Netherlands, France, Portugal, and
Indonesia and met with Desmond Tutu.
Hina Shamsi, Director of the American
Civil Liberties National Security Project. The National
Security Project is dedicated to ensuring that U.S. national security policies
and practices are consistent with the Constitution, civil liberties, and human
rights. Shamsi has litigated cases upholding the freedoms of speech and
association, and challenging targeted killing, torture, unlawful detention, and
post-9/11 discrimination against racial and religious minorities. She is also a
lecturer-in-law at Columbia Law School, where she teaches a course in
international human rights.
Saru Jayaraman, Author of
Behind
the Kitchen Door. Saru Jayaraman
launched the national restaurant workers' organization Restaurant Opportunities
Centers United and documented the undemocratic labor practices of the food
industry, the discrimination that plagues immigrant workers and people of color,
and the relationship of food sovereignty to the full democracy that we have not
yet achieved.
Dawud Walid, Executive Director of the
Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations
(CAIR-MI). CAIR-MI is a chapter of America’s largest advocacy
and civil liberties organization for Muslims based in the hotspot of Detroit, a
city at the epicenter of the attacks on democratic rule. He has been prominent
in the fight against Islamophobia, racial profiling, and border stops. Walid
has appeared on Democracy
Now and is a political blogger for the Detroit
News.
Salvadore Sarmiento, National Day
Laborer Organizing Network. NDLON has been central to the fight
to stop the punitive deportation of over 350,000 persons last year. In a recent
press release NDLON said, “The five years of criminalization the President has
overseen blankets immigrant communities with suspicion and causes people to live
in fear. Until the historic mistake of entwining local police with immigration
enforcement is corrected, the country will face a crisis of safety in our
communities, confidence in the President, and separation in our
families.”
Professor Khalilah Brown-Dean, Author
of Once
Convicted, Forever Doomed: Race, Crime, and Civil Death
(forthcoming, Yale University Press). Dean is an associate professor of
political science at Quinnipiac University and a powerful critic of the system
of mass incarceration. She was also awarded a 2005 Social Science Research Fund
grant for the project: “Fighting From a Powerless Space: The Impact of Crime
Control Policies on Women.”
Lynne Jackson, Project SALAM and the
National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms. Project SALAM and
the NCPF are in the national leadership in the fight against the Orwellian
practice of preemptively prosecuting Muslim-Americans who have committed no
crime and the frame-up of hundreds of law-abiding Muslim-Americans as part of
the so-called War on Terror. Jackson recently led the Journey for Justice
across New York state in defense of Yassin Aref, an Albany imam entrapped by the
FBI whose case is described in Rounded Up: Artificial Terrorists and
Muslim Entrapment After 9/11. What You Can Do Right Now to
Help! √ Get your organization to be listed
as a gold sponsor & give $500. √ Get your organization to be listed
as a sponsor & give $100 (table included). √ Get your organization to be listed
as an endorser & give $50(table included). √ Be listed as an individual
providing a scholarship for a student or underemployed attendee for
$25. √ Reserve a literature table for
$25. √ Forward publicity to your lists and
friends. Friend this event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/746161628745630/?ref=2&ref_dashboard_filter=calendar Send checks made out to the CT
Coalition to Stop Indefinite Detention, c/o Nancy Bowden, at 7 Scotland Rd.,
Bloomfield CT 06002, 860-212-9596 or register/donate online via credit card
For
more information, contact Isa Mujahid at imujahid@acluct.org 860-471-8473, Daniel Adam at
860-985-4576, or Mo This is a Text Block. Use this to provide
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Update on Program
for March 29 Conference
Chris Hedges to Keynote
Chris
Hedges is a former New York Times reporter, Pulitizer-Prize wining journalist,
columnist for Truthdig, author of 12 books, and was a plaintiff in the historic
lawsuit “Hedges vs. Obama,” a court challenge to the indefinite detention
provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act. Hedges left the Times
shortly after they issued him a formal reprimand for publicly denouncing the
2003 invasion of Iraq. Hedges is the author of the best-sellers American Fascists: The Christian Right
and the War on America, Death of the Liberal
Class, and War
Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. He co-authored with Laila
Al-Arian, Collateral
Damage: America’s War Against Iraqi Civilians. His most recent
book is Days of Destruction,
Days of Revolt, a collaboration with comics artist and journalist
Joe Sacco and a brutally honest account of their travels through America’s
“sacrifice zones” — areas of the country that have suffered and decayed as a
result of exploitation in the name of profit and corporate power. Hedges is
currently a senior fellow at the Nation Institute, and has taught at Columbia
University, New York University, and Princeton University. He received his B.A.
in English Literature from Colgate University and a Master of Divinity degree
from Harvard University.
Join us at
One
Nation—Under Surveillance A One-Day Conference about
Building Networks of Solidarityin Defiance of NSA Spying &
the Erosion of Democratic Rights
Saturday, March 29, 2014 –10:00
a.m Torp Theater, Davidson Hall, Central
Connecticut State University 1615 Stanley Street, New Britain
CT
Registration: Solidarity Price: $25;
Non-CCSU Students & Underemployed: $10. Scholarships will be available. CCSU
Students Admitted for Free.
Join us on March 29,
2014 at Central Connecticut State University for the second annual state civil
liberties conference initiated by the CT Coalition to Stop Indefinite
Detention, the CT American Civil Liberties Union, the CT Council on American
Islamic Relations, and United Action of CT. We will explore the
links between NSA spying, domestic drones, and official Islamophobia, as well as
the policies of mass incarceration and mass deportation that are currently in
place. Sponsors include the Tree of Life Foundation and the United
National Antiwar Coalition. Endorsers include the National Lawyers Guild of CT,
Know Drones, Middle East Crisis Committee, Promoting Enduring Peace, the Norwich
and New London chapters of the NAACP, and the Norwich Area Greeen
Party.
Additional speakers, panelists, and
workshop leaders include:
Robert King, One of the Angola Three.
Robert King is one of the most famous former political prisoners
in the world. He served 29 years in solitary confinement before his conviction
was overturned and was one of a group of three African-American activists
victimized for their political activism as members of the Black Panther Party.
King has spoken before the parliaments of the Netherlands, France, Portugal, and
Indonesia and met with Desmond Tutu.
Hina Shamsi, Director of the American
Civil Liberties National Security Project. The National
Security Project is dedicated to ensuring that U.S. national security policies
and practices are consistent with the Constitution, civil liberties, and human
rights. Shamsi has litigated cases upholding the freedoms of speech and
association, and challenging targeted killing, torture, unlawful detention, and
post-9/11 discrimination against racial and religious minorities. She is also a
lecturer-in-law at Columbia Law School, where she teaches a course in
international human rights.
Saru Jayaraman, Author of
Behind
the Kitchen Door. Saru Jayaraman
launched the national restaurant workers' organization Restaurant Opportunities
Centers United and documented the undemocratic labor practices of the food
industry, the discrimination that plagues immigrant workers and people of color,
and the relationship of food sovereignty to the full democracy that we have not
yet achieved.
Dawud Walid, Executive Director of the
Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations
(CAIR-MI). CAIR-MI is a chapter of America’s largest advocacy
and civil liberties organization for Muslims based in the hotspot of Detroit, a
city at the epicenter of the attacks on democratic rule. He has been prominent
in the fight against Islamophobia, racial profiling, and border stops. Walid
has appeared on Democracy
Now and is a political blogger for the Detroit
News.
Salvadore Sarmiento, National Day
Laborer Organizing Network. NDLON has been central to the fight
to stop the punitive deportation of over 350,000 persons last year. In a recent
press release NDLON said, “The five years of criminalization the President has
overseen blankets immigrant communities with suspicion and causes people to live
in fear. Until the historic mistake of entwining local police with immigration
enforcement is corrected, the country will face a crisis of safety in our
communities, confidence in the President, and separation in our
families.”
Professor Khalilah Brown-Dean, Author
of Once
Convicted, Forever Doomed: Race, Crime, and Civil Death
(forthcoming, Yale University Press). Dean is an associate professor of
political science at Quinnipiac University and a powerful critic of the system
of mass incarceration. She was also awarded a 2005 Social Science Research Fund
grant for the project: “Fighting From a Powerless Space: The Impact of Crime
Control Policies on Women.”
Lynne Jackson, Project SALAM and the
National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms. Project SALAM and
the NCPF are in the national leadership in the fight against the Orwellian
practice of preemptively prosecuting Muslim-Americans who have committed no
crime and the frame-up of hundreds of law-abiding Muslim-Americans as part of
the so-called War on Terror. Jackson recently led the Journey for Justice
across New York state in defense of Yassin Aref, an Albany imam entrapped by the
FBI whose case is described in Rounded Up: Artificial Terrorists and
Muslim Entrapment After 9/11. What You Can Do Right Now to
Help! √ Get your organization to be listed
as a gold sponsor & give $500. √ Get your organization to be listed
as a sponsor & give $100 (table included). √ Get your organization to be listed
as an endorser & give $50(table included). √ Be listed as an individual
providing a scholarship for a student or underemployed attendee for
$25. √ Reserve a literature table for
$25. √ Forward publicity to your lists and
friends. Friend this event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/746161628745630/?ref=2&ref_dashboard_filter=calendar Send checks made out to the CT
Coalition to Stop Indefinite Detention, c/o Nancy Bowden, at 7 Scotland Rd.,
Bloomfield CT 06002, 860-212-9596 or register/donate online via credit card
For
more information, contact Isa Mujahid at imujahid@acluct.org 860-471-8473, Daniel Adam at
860-985-4576, or
Mo
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