[Mitai-announce] [Phrj-list] Evidence Cooking and Civil Liberties: from Korematsu to Guantanamo Bay Feb. 26 at MIT

[Susan Frick]

>EVIDENCE COOKING AND CIVIL LIBERTIES:
>FROM KOREMATSU TO GUANTANAMO BAY
>
>A Day of Remembrance
>
>Saturday, February 26, 2005
>2:00 - 3:30pm
>_____________
>
>Civil Liberties Lawyer Harvey Silverglate and
>New England JACL Board Member Carl Takei
>with Introductions by Kenneth Oye, MIT Professor of Political Science
>
>
>MIT's Tang Center
>Building E51, Room 095
>70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
>(near the Kendall Square T stop)
>on-line map:
>http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=E51
>_____________
>Co-sponsored by:

>MIT's Program on Human Rights and Justice
>MIT's Center for International Studies
>The New England Chapter of the Japanese American Citizen's League
>The Asian American Resource Workshop and
>MIT Amnesty International
>
>During WWII, the U.S. Supreme Court's Korematsu decision ruled that it was 
>constitutional to detain over 112,000 Japanese Americans without trial. 
>And for sixty years, that decision that has been reviled as a blot on our 
>national history. But today, against the backdrop of the War on Terror, 
>the federal government is using a disturbingly similar set of tools to 
>evade the oversight of the courts and the public. Civil liberties lawyer 
>Harvey Silverglate and New England JACL Board Member Carl Takei will 
>discuss these echoes of the past, and shed light on some little known 
>aspects of the wartime internment cases that have significant implications 
>for Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, and beyond.
>
>For a taste of what's to come in the lecture, see their joint article 
>"Hiding the Gulag," published in the Boston Phoenix:
>http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/other_stories/multi-page/documents/03866773.asp
>
>_____________
>
>Light refreshments will be served.

Please forward this announcement to interested students, colleagues, and 
friends.


Susan Frick
Program Coordinator
Program on Human Rights and Justice
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Building 9 Room 365
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Tel: 617 258 7614
Fax: 617 253 2654
Email: fricks at mit.edu
http://web.mit.edu/phrj
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