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Workshops
Taking Action in the Post-9/11 Era: Organization and Mobilization
Offered: I
Moderator: Nancy Murray, Bill of Rights Project, ACLU of Massachusetts; Patrice Webb, ACLU
Location: Lowell Junior Common Room
Learn how you and your group can influence policy and policy-makers to protect civil liberties and civil rights. Find out whom to contact, how to do it, what to say, and what medium to use at this essential workshop. This workshop will include information on Anti-PATRIOT resolutions and how to pass them at your institution or in your community.
Criminal Defense and Civil Liberties
Offered: I, II
Moderator: Tim O'Toole, Director, Special Litigation, Public Defenders Service of the District of Columbia
Location: Lowell G016
Learn about the annals of criminal defense and the related civil liberties issues in this workshop designed to explain current controversies in discovery and the criminal process as well as a first-hand look at what it means to be a public defender on both a state and federal level.
Current Controversies in Prisoners' Rights
Offered: I, II
Moderator: Larry Vogelman, Legal Director, New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union
Location: Lowell Small Dining Room
Learn about the current issues concerning medical care in jails and the difficulties in litigating those issues. Whether or not you're familiar with this issue, make sure you don't miss this opportunity to hear a story that is not often told.
On the Other Side of the Bench
Offered: II, III
Moderator: Lindsay Earls, plaintiff, Earls v. Board of Education, and Allen Gilbert, Executive Director, Vermont Civil Liberties Union
Location: Lowell Junior Common Room
Lindsay Earls, represented by Graham Boyd of the ACLU, learned firsthand what the fight for civil liberties entails when she refused to submit to her school's drug-testing policy for non-athletic events. Her case took her from her small Oklahoma town to the Supreme Court, where she narrowly lost in a landmark 5-4 decision in 2003. Lindsay will discuss her experience, and Mr. Gilbert will address its legal context.
Forming and Maintaining Successful College Groups
Offered: I, III
Moderator: Dartmouth College Civil Liberties Union
Location: Round 1: Lowell Coolidge Room; Round 3: Lowell G016
Have a great idea for other civil liberties unions? Need a great idea? This workshop is designed for struggling and successful groups alike to share past successes and develop a consensus for "what works." The conference was organized in part to achieve this goal; each group should send at least one representative to this workshop over the course of the day.
Panel: The Face of Profiling
Offered: III
Moderator: Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union
Panel Members: Vijay Simmons, Hala Sultan Saadeh
Location: Lowell Small Dining Hall
This panel features students from high schools and universities who have experienced first-hand the way in which young people have been targeted in the post-9/11 era. The fight for civil liberties is not a theoretical one; rather, very real victims have emerged as a result of the Bush administration's policies. These diverse voices put a face on the cause.
E-Activism
Offered: II, III
Moderator: Aaron Israelite, Intern, ACLU of Massachusetts; Matt Howes, ACLU; Morgan McDonald, co-founder, studentsforfreedom.org
Location: Emerson Hall 105
The 2004 election saw a surge in what may well become the most effective and pertinent form of activism for generations to come: e-activism, or web-based organizing. Learn how your group can take advantage of this trend for a stronger chapter. This workshop is also an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a new website project designed to connect students from CLUs around the country. Open to neophytes and web designers alike.
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