[Peace-discuss] Join CCR Sept 14 via webcast to reflect on the 10 years since 9/11

Sat Sep 3 17:11:49 CDT 2011

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                    Dear CCR supporter,
This September marks the tenth anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Please join CCR via a national webcast on September 14 or in person at four NYC events (on Sept. 8, 9, 12 & 14) where we will reflect on the last ten years and discuss ongoing work critical to resisting expanding U.S. wars and ongoing assaults on the civil liberties and human rights of people in the United States and abroad:

    Guantánamo lawyers panel with CCR’s Gitanjali Gutierrez and actress Kathleen Chalfant
    Discussion featuring CCR Executive Director Vince Warren and torture memo author John Yoo
    Forum on the legacy of 9/11 with Vince Warren, Christian Parenti and Sadia Abbas
    CCR nationally webcast panel discussion featuring  CCR’s Michael Ratner, Vincent Warren, Rachel Meeropol and Shayana  Kadidal

When: Thursday, September 8 at 5pm
What: The Guantánamo Lawyers Panel with CCR's Gitanjali Gutierrez and actress Kathleen Chalfant, followed by a new play, co-sponsored by CCR.
Lawyers who represent men detained at Guantánamo and other facilities discuss the significance of ongoing indefinite detention at Guantánamo and address U.S. policies on torture and detention.
Where: Gerald W. Lynch Theater lobby at John  Jay College. 899 Tenth Avenue (at W. 59th St.), NY, NY 10019.
Who: Gitanjali Gutierrez, Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR); Jonathan Hafetz, Seton Hall and Rutgers Universities; Martha Rayner, Fordham Law; Alex Abdo, ACLU’s National Security Project; chaired by Kathleen Chalfant, award-winning stage and screen actress, and social justice advocate.
***Followed at 7:30pm by a free dress rehearsal of Another Life, a new play by writer and director Karen Malpede, described as “a whirl-windtrip through the past ten years exploring “subtle but growing resistance” and “questions of complicity and conscience in civil society.”

When: Friday, September 9, from 10am - 12pm
What: Panel Discussion featuring CCR’s Executive Director Vincent Warren and John Yoo, the former Deputy Assistant Attorney General who authorized torture. “Separation of Powers: The Roles and Inter-Relationships of the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Branches since 9/11”
Where: New York Law School, 185 West Broadway (corner of Church and Worth Streets), New York, NY  10013.
Who: Vincent Warren, Executive Director, Center for Constitutional Rights; John Yoo, UC Berkeley School of Law and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice (2001–2003); Linda Greenhouse (Moderator), Yale Law School and  New York Times columnist; David Cole, Georgetown Law School, Nation columnist and Center for Constitutional Rights board member; Richard Epstein, New York University School of Law, University of Chicago Law School and the Hoover Institution; Peter Shane, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.
**Admission is free for NYLS faculty, staff, students and alumni, and for non-NYLS students with school I.D. General Admission is $25.00 for non-students who are not affiliated with NYLS. Registration begins at 9am. For more information, see the NYLS site.

When: Monday, September 12 at 7:30pm
What: “Assessing the Legacy of 9-11,” co-sponsored by CCR and the Brecht Forum
Where: The Brecht Forum, 451 West Street (btwn. Bank & Bethune Streets), New York, NY 10014
Who: Vincent Warren, Executive Director of CCR; Sadia Abbas, Rutgers University.
For more information, see the Brecht Forum's website.

When: Wednesday, September 14, 6:40pm - 8:30pm 
What: Nationally Webcast Panel Discussion: “A Decade of Fighting Terror with Terror: CCR Reflects on 10 Years After 9/11.” 

CCR staff approach the 9/11 anniversary as an opportunity to evaluate the last ten years and map how we will continue resisting abuses of human rights and civil liberties in the years ahead.
Where: NYU School of Law, D’Agostino Hall, 108 West Third St. (at MacDougal St.), New York, NY 10012
Who: Michael Ratner, CCR President Emeritus; Vincent Warren, CCR Executive Director; Rachel Meeropol, CCR Attorney; Shayana Kadidal, CCR Senior Managing Attorney
RSVP: Contact José Monzon at rsvp at CCRjustice.org or call (212) 614-6489
This event is free, but space is limited. RSVP by Monday, September 12.

*Can’t make the event? Go to www.CCRjustice.org/10YearsLater on September 14 to watch a live webcast!

I hope to see you at these events.
Sincerely,
Annette Warren Dickerson

Director of Education and Outreach

Center for Constitutional Rights

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