| Advocacy and Activism Workshops
Taking Civil Liberties concerns to the next level. Helping to make change happen. |
February 23 - Bluffton: 13 dedicated civil liberties activists attended the Advocacy and Activism workshop in Bluffton. Our thanks to George Kanuck for his work in organizing and the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Lowcountry for hosting this event. |
March 1 - Greenville: Professor Glen A. Halva-Neubauer of Furman University, a specialist in state & local government and politics and in US domestic policy, was the guest presenter at our Advocacy and Activism workshop in Greenville. |
March 27 - Columbia: John Ruoff of SC Fair Share and Professor Eric Sevigny of USC were the guest presenters at our Advocacy and Activism workshop in Columbia.
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| A New Decade: Perspectives on Civil and Voting Rights
In celebration of Black History Month (February), the ACLU South Carolina National Office hosted screenings of Legacy: Black and White in America, the acclaimed PBS documentary feature film that highlights the most civil liberties struggles both past and present. Legacy is also about racial divisions in America and the conflicts that define us as a civilization and as human beings. |
February 23 - USC School of Law, Columbia: The American Constitution Society and the Black Students Law Association of the University of South Carolina School of Law partnered with us to present this thought-provoking event. Meredith Bell-Platts, Staff Counsel of the ACLU Voting Rights Project spoke following the film screening. |
February 25 - Charleston: League of Women Voters, NAACP and YWCA of Charleston partnered with us to offer this screening. Our thanks to Morris Brown AME Church for hosting this event.
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| Law & Society Symposium, Charleston, SC The 2nd Annual Law & Society Symposium, presented by Charleston Law Review and The Riley Institute at Furman, was held February 18-19, 2010. Victoria Middleton, Executive Director of the ACLU South Carolina National Office moderated a panel on Juvenile Justice: Schools as Pipelines to Prison.
Would you like to help us arrange an event for your town? Please call Jan Landry at 843-720-1423 ext 2 or e-mail: jlandry@aclu.org |
