VANCOUVER – The Center for Social and Environmental Justice at Washington State University Vancouver presents a forum of experts and activists discussing, “Casualties of the USA Patriot Act and the ‘War on Terror’.”
This forum on civil liberties will be 7 to 9 p.m., May 10, in the WSU Vancouver Administration Building, room 110.
Featured members of the forum include:
– Brandon Mayfield, recently awarded $2 million in a lawsuit against the federal government for his wrongful arrest in connection with the 2004 Madrid train bombing.
– Tom Nelson, human rights activist and co-counsel representing Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, Inc. and two of its lawyers in a warrantless wire tapping lawsuit against the federal government.
– Ashlee Albies, Chair of the Portland Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild; co-counsel in the Al Haramain case; co-counsel for the Center for Constitutional Rights in a similar challenge to the government’s warrantless wiretapping program.
– Sam Kauffman, an attorney representing two Guantanamo detainees who have been imprisoned for five years without charge.
– Kayse Jama, human rights activist and founder and director of the Center for Intercultural Organizing.
The Center for Social and Environmental Justice serves WSU’s land grant mission by engaging community capacities to address poverty, inequality, discrimination and unequally borne environmental dangers. For more information, visit http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/programs/csejustice/
