PRINCIPAL SPEAKERS

Mike German, National Staff Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

TOPIC: FUSION CENTERS (where surveillance data is pooled and shared among police, military, and corporate agencies)

Shahid Buttar, Bill Of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC), Northampton, Mass.

TOPIC: RACIAL PROFILING AND SURVEILLANCE

Sue Udry, Defending Dissent Foundation (DDF), (Washington, D.C

and former staff director, CCDBR

TOPIC: RESPONDIING TO THE DANGERS OF ABUSIVE SURVEILLANCE

PANEL ON CHICAGO AREA SURVEILLANCE ISSUES

Pat Hill, African American Police League (AAPL), Black People Against Police Torture (BPAPT)

Kevin Vodak, Attorney, Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)

Joy Robinson-Van Gilder, Activist to stop fingerprinting of school children

Students from Senn High School

The program will conclude with an original Rap number composed and performed by Shahid Buttar.

This event is co-sponsored by Northwestern Law School, Blum Legal Clinic and Roderick MacArthur Justice Center

This forum is dedicated to the memory of Judith Krug (1940-2009), Director of American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom

There is no admission charge, donations will be welcomed. Casual Dress.

DIRECTIONS AND PARKING:

Entrance is on Lake Shore Drive, at the southwest corner at Chicago Ave.

IF DRIVING: you can turn into Chicago Ave. coming from either north or south.

There are parking meters on Chicago Avenue and Superior Street.

Nearby parking garages:

1.   220 E. Chicago Ave. (marked Museum of Contemporary Art but open to the public)

2.   222 E. Superior (you can enter from either the Huron or Superior sides)

3.   321 E. Ontario (entrance on Ontario or Erie)

By PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:

the nearest L stop is the Red Line, Chicago Avenue

Various buses along Michigan Avenue, get off at Chicago Ave.