[PAA-Discuss] Glenn Greenwald lecture/ "Shredding the Constitution, Civil Liberties and theWar

[Juli3 at aol.com]

I wanted to pass this on from the Amnesty international list;
 
I'd like to mention one event  happening next week that people in the group 
might be interested in.  
 
 
 


Glenn Greenwald, author of three (soon to be four) books and blogger for  
Salon.com, will be doing a public speaking event at Lonestar College in  
Kingwood.  For those who don't recognize the name, Greenwald is a former  
constitutional lawyer turned civil rights author, blogger and journalist, and  
he's one of the most important liberal voices in America.  If you already  
regularly read him _online_ 
(http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/index.html) , then you likely know about this event.  But if  you don't, you 
might still want to come to the free event because I'm sure  you'll learn 
something you never knew before (if you like that sort of  thing).


The topic of his lecture is "Shredding the Constitution, Civil Liberties  
and the War on Terror," and it's at 7 PM on Wednesday, March 9th in the  
teaching theater CLA 114.


Here's the flyer: 
_http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/03/01/assange/glenngreenwald_theiss.pdf_ 
(http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/03/01/assange/glenngreenwald_theiss.pdf) 


 
(http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/03/01/assange/glenngreenwald_theiss.pdf) Greenwald regularly writes about civil rights (which, 
as we  all know, in many ways overlaps with human rights), and has probably 
done more  than anyone in the news media to bring attention to the 
mistreatment (torture)  of Bradley Manning at the Marine brig in Quantico, Va.. 
Bradley Manning is the  former intelligence analyst accused of leaking 150,000+ 
sensitive diplomatic  cables, as well as the _Collateral Murder  video_ 
(http://www.collateralmurder.com/)  to the open government organization 
_Wikileaks_ (http://213.251.145.96/) , who has now spent  over 10 months in solitary 
confinement as he awaits trial.  See  Greenwald's _post_ 
(http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/03/04/morrell/index.html)  today for 
the latest on that.


Greenwald has also written extensively on Guantanamo Bay and torture.  See 
for example, _here_ 
(http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/02/04/guantanamo) , _here_ 
(http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/08/11/khadr) , _here_ 
(http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/07/16/sociopaths) , _here_ 
(http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/06/26/guantanamo) , _here_ 
(http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/07/16/nyt) , _here_ 
(http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/10/15/accountability) , etc.


I don't know if Greenwald will be saying anything about Manning,  
Guantanamo, or torture at the event, but it is highly likely some of these  subjects 
will come up.  A lot of his pet topics are directly and  indirectly related 
to human rights, so I believe his discussion will be  relevant to this 
groups' interests.  It's very rare for someone like him  to visit Texas (for the 
record, he lives in Brazil), so it's like a once in a  life time 
opportunity!*


Thanks,
Brett


*Since I've been reading him for 3+ years, he's never had a public  
speaking event in Texas.  Usually he sticks to Los Angeles, Washington  D.C. and 
New York, NY.  So this really might be a once in a lifetime  opportunity given 
he lives in Brazil and it's very costly for him to  travel.






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