Join the Center for Constitutional rights at two exciting events in the Bay Area on Tuesday, November 18, 2008. CCR Executive Director Vincent Warren will explore key issues and describe CCR's new 100 Days campaign calling for the restoration of the Constitution and the protection and expansion of our rights in the first 100 days of the next administration. The events will take place in Berkeley and in Oakland and both are free and open to the public. For more information about the 100 Days campaign write us at events@ccrjustice.org.
Berkeley, CA:
100 Days to Constitutional Restoration: What the Next President Must Do
12:45-1:45 p.m.
University of California at Berkeley School of Law
Boalt Hall, Room 145
(corner of Piedmont Ave. and Bancroft Way)
CCR Executive Director Vincent Warren will discuss the Center's 100 Days Campaign, which calls for ending torture, rendition, and illegal detention, protecting dissent, abolishing preventive detention, limiting state secrets privilege, reining in presidential war powers, stopping warrantless wiretapping, and rolling back executive power. Mr. Warren will present the crucial ways that all of us need to keep the pressure on the next president to restore the Constitution.
Oakland, CA:
From Folsom to Guantánamo: The Prison Industrial Complex & 100 Days of Prison Justice
7:00 PM
Humanist Hall
90 27th Street
(between Telegraph and Broadway)
CCR Executive Director Vincent Warren will join Critical Resistance to discuss CCR's historic struggles for prison justice and to shut down Guantánamo, its vision to restore the Constitution and close Guantánamo in the first 100 days of the new administration. Critical Resistance will discuss their important work to end the prison industrial complex -from California's prisons to the establishment of U.S. offshore facilities for arbitrary detention.