Co-Sponsored by Charboneau Learning Center of The Literacy Project.

July 25-26, 2003

Protecting our Civil Liberties:

The Core of Democracy"

A regional conference at G.C.C. in Greenfield

Greenfield Community College and Traprock Peace Center

Keynote Speaker: Frank Serpico

former NYPD detective and whistleblower against corruption and misuse of power.

Workshops and Discussions on:

Ø Anti-Terror Policies: Provisions of the Patriot Acts I & II

Ø Debunking Media Myths and Confronting Fear

Ø Speaking up for International Neighbors (Watching the INS)

Ø Libraries and Intellectual Freedom

Ø Town Resolutions for Constitutional Rights

Ø Dialogue Skills: Speaking Up for Civil Liberties

Ø Writers' Workshop

Ø Theater Improvisation for Human Rights

Ø Action planning

Other presenters

Atty. C. William Michaels, author of 'No Greater Threat - America After September 11 and the Rise of the National Security State." and a founder of the Maryland Chapter of Pax Christi

Atty. Bill Newman, Director of the Western Mass. Regional ACLU office

Atty. Mahsa Khanbabai of Springfield, on defending immigrants

Prof. Christopher H. Pyle: an expert on intelligence and counter-intelligence

Sandra Boston, founder of the Conscious Communications Institute.

Sut Jhally, film producer and founder of the Media Education Foundation

Leo Hwang-Carlos, GCC: leading a writers' workshop

Louis Battalen, speaking on libraries and intellectual freedom--will they endure

Irvine Sobelman, co-founder of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee

Ezzell Floraniña, director and performer uses the tools of Augusto Boal and others in a theater improv workshop.