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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><div align="center"><font face="Garamond" size=6 color="#800000"><b>EVIDENCE
COOKING AND CIVIL LIBERTIES: </b></font><br>
<font face="Garamond" size=4><b>FROM KOREMATSU TO GUANTANAMO
BAY</font><br><br>
<font face="Garamond"><i>A Day of Remembrance<br><br>
</i></font><font face="Garamond" size=4 color="#800000">Saturday,
February 26, 2005</font><font face="Garamond" size=4><br>
2:00 - 3:30pm</font><font face="Garamond"><br>
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Civil Liberties Lawyer<b>
</font><font face="Garamond" color="#800000">Harvey
Silverglate</font><font face="Garamond"> </b>and <br>
New England JACL Board Member<b>
</font><font face="Garamond" color="#800000">Carl
Takei</font><font face="Garamond"><br>
</b>with Introductions by
</font><font face="Garamond" color="#800000"><b>Kenneth
Oye</b></font><font face="Garamond">, MIT Professor of Political
Science<br><br>
<br>
</font><font face="Garamond" size=4 color="#800000"><b>MIT's Tang
Center<br>
</b>Building E51, Room 095</font><font face="Garamond"><br>
70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge<br>
(near the Kendall Square T stop)<br>
on-line map:<br>
<i><u><a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=E51" eudora="autourl">http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=E51</a><br>
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Co-sponsored by: </blockquote></div>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><div align="center">MIT's Program
on Human Rights and Justice<br>
MIT's Center for International Studies<br>
The New England Chapter of the Japanese American Citizen's League<br>
The Asian American Resource Workshop and<br>
MIT Amnesty International<br><br>
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.<br><br>
For a taste of what's to come in the lecture, see their joint article
"Hiding the Gulag," published in the Boston Phoenix:<br>
<a href="http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/other_stories/multi-page/documents/03866773.asp" eudora="autourl">http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/other_stories/multi-page/documents/03866773.asp</a><br><br>
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<div align="center">Light refreshments will be
served.</font></blockquote></div>
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<div align="center"><i>Please forward this announcement to interested
students, colleagues, and friends. <br><br>
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<font face="Garamond">Susan Frick<br>
Program Coordinator<br>
Program on Human Rights and Justice<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
77 Massachusetts Avenue<br>
Building 9 Room 365<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307<br>
Tel: 617 258 7614<br>
Fax: 617 253 2654<br>
Email: fricks@mit.edu<br>
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/phrj" eudora="autourl">http://web.mit.edu/phrj<br>
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