Wed 6/23 – Wed 8/4 @ noon – 1PM
Instead of zoning out over your lunch break, take this time to learn about critical community issues at the ACLU Brown Bag Lecture Series. Bring your lunch and drinks and dessert will be served.
Here’s the schedule:
Wed 6/23 – Life Sentence: Obstacles faced by formerly incarcerated people w/ Charles See, director of Community Re-Entry, Inc.
Wed 7/7 – Homeless, Not Hopeless: The homeless community’s fight for fair treatment w/ Brian Davis, executive director of the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless
Wed 7/14 – Overlooked: Accessibility, inclusion, and the future of equality for the disabled w/ Frank Hickman, principal of Hickman & Lowder Co., L.P.A., concentrating on civil litigation and the rights of persons with mental and physical disabilities
Wed 7/21 – Profiling Islam: Faith under surveillance w/ Julia Shearson, executive director for the Cleveland chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR Cleveland)
Wed 7/28 – Immigration Myths: Separating fact from fiction w/ Veronica Dahlberg, executive director of HOLA, a grassroots community-based Latino organization
Wed 8/4 – Black Power, Black Vote: An exploration of the Black Panther Party w/ Hasan Kwame Jeffries, assistant professor of history at The Ohio State University and the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
@ Max Wohl Civil Liberties Center – 4506 Chester Ave.
Call 472-2200 to RSVP.
http://ACLUOhio.org/events/BrownBag2010.asp