Surveillance, Truth to Power
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National Security/Tort Reform/Free Trade
Tort Reform Examined
An indepth with Steve Peskin and Shoshanna Bookson with the New York Trial Lawyers Association. Peskin and Bookson discuss how corporate welfare triumphs as insurance claims and are being capped.
“The National Security State”
A term described by Guest Michael Avery, former president of the National Lawyer’s Guild, Avery describes the many ways a citizen’s privacy is easily breached on several fronts in the United States.
U.S. Global Economic Entanglements
Guest Barbara Dudley discusses the Dark Secrets of Free Trade.
Civil Liberties, Surveillance
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Last month, nearly half a million protestors took to the streets to march against the Republican National Convention , the Iraq War and various other causes, in one of the most peaceful gatherings New York City has seen. Demonstrators marched in the hot sun for nearly four hours from 14th and Seventh Avenue to Herald Square and back down to Union Square. But as the carnival-like atmosphere continued inside the RNC, an atmosphere of unpredictability gripped the streets as police used dragnet tactics to round up protestors.
Among the Guests: National Lawyers Guild Attorneys – Elizabeth Fink, Margaret Ratner Kunstler. Also, Ellen Yaroshevsky, on the Lynne Stewart defense team and a Professor of Law at the Cardozo Law School
Civil Liberties, Surveillance, Truth to Power
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Protester’s guide to your legal rights.
Demonstrators will need to be legally prepared during the groundswell of opposition demonstrations and activities at the Republican National Convention. Federal, state, and city police are prepared to respond with full force.
Guests: Carol Sobel & Mara Verheyden Hilliard with the National Lawyers Guild; Jeff Fogel, Center for Constitutional Rights; others.
