Since the passing of the Patriot Act, many things have changed in the U.S.,
and not necessarily for the better.
On this edition, we look at Bush Administration policies that many contend
undermine basic human rights and civil liberties. Has the War on Terror
become a War on Freedom? How much should we give up for this war?
Senior Producer/Host: Tena Rubio
Contributing Freelance Producers: Martha Baskin, Melinda Tuhus, Joshua
Emerson Smith
Featuring:
Michael Ratner, president, Center for Constitutional Rights; Joanne Mariner
director of counterterrorism Human Rights Watch; Joshua Colangelo-Byran
attorney for Guantanamo Detainees from Bahrain; George Christian, executive
director, The Library Connection, Inc.; Janet Nocek, executive committee,
The Library Connection, Inc.; Deborah Caldwell-Stone, deputy director,
American Library Association Office of Intellectual Freedom; Kevin O’Connor,
U.S. attorney for Connecticut; Sharon Adams, National Lawyer’s Guild; Mark
Schlosberg, ACLUNC; Ruth Robertson (Granny Ruth), Raging Grannies; Chris
Bertelli, Office of Homeland Security; Nathan Beranken, Attorney General’s
Office.
For more information:
Center for Constitutional Rights
666 Broadway, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10012
212-614-6464
http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/home.asp
Human Rights Watch
350 Fifth Avenue, 34th floor
New York, NY 10118-3299
212-290-4700
http://www.hrw.org
The Library Connection, Inc.
599 Matianuck Avenue
Windsor, CT 06095
860-298-5322
http://www.libraryconnection.info
American Library Association
50 E. Huron St.
Chicago, IL 60611
800-545-2433
http://www.ala.org
American Civil Liberties Union
125 Broad St., 18th floor
New York, NY 10004
212-519-7829
http://www.aclu.org
National Lawyer’s Guild
1867 Ygnacio Valley Road, #230
Walnut Creek, CA 94598
Northern CA American Civil Liberties Union
39 Drumm Street
San Francisco, CA 94111
http://www.ACLUNC.org
Raging Grannies
http://www.peninsularaginggrannies.org