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EXECUTIVE POWER AND HUMAN RIGHTS: TORTURE, SECRECY, AND THE RULE OF LAW
Keynote Speaker: Scott Shane, reporter for national security in the Washington bureau of The New York Times

Saturday, December 8, 2007
2:00pm to 4:00pm
Goucher College
Kelley Lecture Hall
1021 Dulaney Valley Road
Baltimore, MD 21204

Guest Panelists

  • Susan Burke: Lead Counsel in a class action on behalf of the torture victims of the Abu Ghraib and other prisons in Iraq
  • Curtis Cooper: President, National Lawyers Guild, Baltimore Chapter
  • Matthew Crenson, Ph.D.: Professor of Political Science, JHU. Co-author, Presidential Power: Unchecked and Unbalanced

A public discussion with all four guest speakers will follow the presentations. Download the FLIER for posting.

This Event is Free and Open to the Public.

This event is sponsored by The United Nations Association of Maryland, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) of Goucher College, the WILPF Baltimore Branch, Church Women United in Maryland, the Ad Hoc Peace Committee and Social Action Clearing House of the First Unitarian Church, the Peace Studies Program and Sarah T. Hughes Field Politics Center of Goucher College, the League of Women Voters (LWV) of Baltimore County, the LWV of Baltimore City, Baltimore Physicians for Social Responsibility, the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, and the Social Action Committee of the Towson Unitarian Universalist Church.

Directions

Goucher College is located on Dulaney Valley Road, Towson, Maryland, about eight miles north of the center of Baltimore. A campus map is available for download in Adobe PDF format from the Goucher website. For directions to the campus, please refer to the following Google Map. Motorists approaching Goucher College from any direction are advised to take the Baltimore Beltway (I-695), leaving it at exit 27A-Towson (Dulaney Valley Road south). The college entrance is on the left, one-half block from exit 27A.


2007 UNA-MD General Membership Meeting

Prior to the event, the 2007 general membership meeting for UNA-MD will take place. The meeting will also be held in the Kelley Lecture Hall and will run approximately from 1:15pm to 1:45pm. A brief overview of the previous year's events and finances will be presented and elections will be held to fill all officer positions and expiring Executive Board seats. A discussion will also take place on planning for 2008. Nominations for officers and board seats should be submitted to info@unamd.org as soon as possible.


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