Georgetown Law School Event with Will Potter & Andy Stepanian

by Will Potter on March 26, 2011

in News

Will Potter and Andy Stepanian to speak at Georgetown Law SchoolI’ll be speaking at Georgetown Law School in Washington, DC, with Andy Stepanian on April 7th.

Event: Terrorizing Dissent: Social Justice or Domestic Terrorism?

Andy Stepanian is a social justice activist and publicist from Long Island, NY. In 2006 he was sentenced to three years in prison for his role in the Stop Huntingdon Life Sciences campaign. The last six months of his sentence was in a high security secretive prison called the Communications Management Unit, known by some federal officials as “Little Gitmo”. The SHAC7 case was recently denied certiorari by the Supreme Court, but still remains a hotly contested first amendment issue. Andy will be speaking about the SHAC7 trial, prison, and activism.

Will Potter is an award winning journalist focusing on government repression of animal rights and environmental activist. He will be speaking about his new book, “Green is the New Red”.

April 7th, 7pm, Georgetown University Law Center 600 New Jersey Ave NW Washington DC, McDonough Hall Rm 203 (use 2nd street entrance)

If you’re on Facebook, please check out the event page.

Here is a full listing of book tour events.

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