ACLU of Santa Cruz County, CA

Less Safe, Less Free: Why We Are Losing the War on Terror

A conversation with Georgetown University Professor of Law David Cole.
Sunday, April 23, 2006, from 7:00 to 9:00 P.M., at the Santa Cruz High School Auditorium, 415 Walnut Ave., Santa Cruz

Free and Open to the Public

Professor David Cole is one of the nation's leading experts on terrorism, security, and civil liberties. He is the author of three award-winning books, the most recent of which is Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism (2003),which won the American Book Award and the Hefner First Amendment Prize. He also is the author of Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties for National Security (with James X. Dempsey), and No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System. No Equal Justice was named Best Nonfiction Book of 1999 by the Boston Book Review, best book on an issue of national policy in 1999 by the American Political Science Association, and was awarded the Alpha Sigma Nu prize from the Jesuit Honor Society in 2001.

Readers of The Nation will recognize David Cole as that magazine’s legal affairs correspondent; he is also a commentator on National Public Radio-All Things Considered.

As staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, Cole litigated a number of landmark Supreme Court cases, including the cases that established that flag burning is protected under the First Amendment.

Don’t miss his fascinating analysis how we can fight terrorism without trampling on the Constitution.

Sponsored by your Santa Cruz Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and Santa Cruz High School’s Social Studies Department.