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Please join the ACLU of Connecticut for its 2006 Civil Liberties Conference on Saturday, June 10 at Quinnipiac University Law in the Grand Courtroom. The event is open to the public and begins at 11:30 a.m. with registration and lunch. There is a suggested donation of $10 ($5 for students). The Conference will feature a keynote address by National ACLU Associate Legal Director Ann Beeson on the topic of "National Security and Civil Liberties." Ms. Beeson leads a team of lawyers on national security issues, human rights, free speech, and racial justice. She has argued twice before the United States Supreme Court, and served as lead attorney on Connecticut's Patriot Act "library case." She is currently leading efforts to stop the erosion of civil liberties in the name of national security. A closing address will be delivered by Cynthia Carr, author of OUR
TOWN: A Heartland Lynching, A Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White
America. Carr, whose grandfather was a member of the Ku
Klux Klan living in Marion, Indiana at the time of a brutal lynching, will discuss how she confronted this taboo
topic to unveil the hidden fears that still plague Americans of every race. In
her decade-long search for answers, Carr used archival material and hundreds of
in-person interviews with whites, blacks, witnesses, KKK members, and even the
man who escaped the lynching to draw a compelling portrait of Marion's-and by
extension, the entire nation's-unwritten racial history. The conference will also include two "roundtable discussions" on a broad range of civil liberties issues facing Connecticut. Experts in the area of civil rights will discuss lesbian and gay rights, reproductive freedom, voting rights and the rights of immigrants. A second panel will address criminal justice by examining police practices, sentencing disparities, capital punishment, drug policy reform and prisoners' rights. Both roundtables will be moderated by ACLU-CT Legal Director Renee C. Redman. A detailed "conference agenda" can be found below. Due to limited seating, we encourage you to register in advance by calling 860-247-9823 x214. On-line registration will be available soon.
ACLU-Connecticut
2006 Civil Liberties Conference
Theme: "Defending Liberty in Connecticut"
Saturday,
June 10, 2006
The Grand Courtroom, Quinnipiac
University
Law
School
Open to all - $10 Suggested Donation, $5 for Students Agenda
11:30 a.m.
- Registration/ Boxed Lunch
12:00 - 1 p.m. - Keynote Address - Safe
and Free
Topic: "National Security
and Civil Liberties"
Ann Beeson, National ACLU Associate Legal Director
1:10 - 2:25 p.m. - Civil Liberties Roundtable, Part 1 - Civil Rights
Moderated By: Renee C. Redman, Legal Director, ACLU of Connecticut Panelists
LGBT Rights - Anne
Stanback, Executive Director, Loves Makes a Family
Fair Housing/Rights of the Poor - Shelley
White, Litigation Director, New Haven Legal Assistance
Women's Rights/Reproductive Freedom - Cindy R. Slane, Commissioner, Permanent
Commission on the Status of Women
Voting Rights - Joyce
Hamilton-Henry, Executive Director, DemocracyWorks
Immigrants' Rights Michael
Boyle, Immigration Attorney, Law Offices of Michael Boyle
2:35 - 3:50 p.m. - Civil Liberties Roundtable, Part 2 - Criminal Justice
Moderated By: Renee C. Redman, Legal Director, ACLU of Connecticut
Panelists
Police
Practices/Sentencing Disparities - Norman A. Pattis, Criminal Defense Attorney, Law
Offices of Norman Pattis
Capital
Punishment - Robert Nave, Executive Director, CT
Network to Abolish the Death Penalty
Drug Policy Reform - Alain
Lopez, Board Member, A
Better Way Foundation
Prisoners'
Rights - Nancy Alisberg, Managing Attorney,
State of Connecticut Office of Protection and Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities
4:00 - 5:00 p.m. - Closing Address - Racial
Justice Topic: "Truth
and Reconciliation: Coming to Grips with the Legacy of Lynching in America" Cynthia
Carr, author of Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, A Haunted
Town,
And The Hidden History of White America
5:00 - 5:15 p.m. - Closing Remarks
Danielle Williams, Development Director, ACLU Foundation of Connecticut Roger C. Vann, Executive Director, ACLU of Connecticut Don
Noel,
Chair, ACLU of Connecticut Board of Directors
5:15 - 6:00 p.m. - Book Signing with Cynthia Carr
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