Hey everyone,
There are a few speaking events coming up back to back on the East Coast next month, and I’ll be posting the details as I get them. Here’s info on a lunchtime event at NYU…
Green Scare event at NYU with Will Potter & Heidi Boghosian
NYU’s Students for Education on Animal Liberation (SEAL) are hosting a Green Scare event on Wednesday, March 7th, at 12:30pm in NYU’s Kimmel Center, room 909. The event will feature award-winning journalist, Will Potter, and executive director of the National Lawyer’s Guild, Heidi Boghosian (their bios are at the bottom of the e-mail). The speakers will discuss first amendment rights, free speech, and address the
government’s effort to silence free speech and label animal rights and environmental activists as terrorists. The event is free and open to the public, but non-NYU students will have to present an ID to get into the
building. Refreshments will be served.WHEN: Wednesday, March 7th, 12:30pm
WHERE: NYU’s Kimmel Center, room 909
60 Washington Square SouthWILL POTTER
Will Potter is an award-winning reporter who focuses on how lawmakers and corporations have labeled animal rights and environmental activists as “eco-terrorists.” Will has written for publications including The
Chicago Tribune, The Dallas Morning News and Legal Affairs, and has testified before the U.S. Congress about his reporting. He is the creator of GreenIsTheNewRed.com, where he blogs about the Green Scare.HEIDI BOGHOSIAN
Heidi Boghosian is the executive director of the National Lawyers Guild, a progressive bar association established in 1937. She is co-host of the weekly civil liberties radio show Law and Disorder on WBAI in New York and several affiliates. Selected writings include Applying Restraints to Private Police (Missouri Law Review 2005), The Assault on Free Speech, Public Assembly, and Dissent (North River Press 2004); and Distancing Jurors from Death with Death Sentencing Evidence (Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review 1995). Her books reviews have appeared in The Federal Lawyer Magazine and the New York Law Journal.