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A panel discussion among leading journalists, attorneys and human rights defenders as the extradition trial in London of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange begins later this month. If Assange is sent to the United States, he would face the first-ever charges under the Espionage Act of 1917 for the publication of truthful information in the public interest. These esteemed speakers will consider the legal and policy issues, and what we can do to protect the First Amendment.
Free admission for NLG-NYC members and for CUNY Law students, faculty & staff.
Saturday, February 15, 2020, 2pm - Auditorium
Speakers:
Renata Avila - Guatemalan International human rights lawyer and digital rights expert, Executive Director, Ciudadania Inteligente, based in Chile and Brazil. She has represented indigenous victims of genocide, including Nobel Peace Laureate Rigoberta Menchu Tum, and is a spokesperson and part of the team that defends Julian Assange and WikiLeaks under the direction of Baltasar Garzon. Avila sits on the Board of Creative Commons.
Max Blumenthal - Award-winning journalist and author of several books whose work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Daily Beast, The Nation, the Huffington Post, the Independent Film Channel, Salon.com and other publications. In 2015 he founded thegrayzone.com, a publication to shine a journalistic light on America’s state of perpetual war and its dangerous domestic repercussions.
Glen Ford - Executive editor, Black Agenda Report, Ford is a legendary journalists whose “firsts,” “mosts,” and “onlys” are only the beginning of the story. A broadcast, print and web pioneer, he is a founding member of the Washington chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) and an executive board member of the National Alliance of Third World Journalists (NATWJ). He has been called a “Certified Elder of the Black Journalism Tribe.”
James C. Goodale - Former chief counsel of The New York Times, who led the legal team in the Pentagon Papers case (403 U.S. 713), one of the most important First Amendment rulings in modern times.
Video Statements from: Noam Chomsky, Daniel Ellsberg and Alice Walker, author
Moderator: Idalin Bobe, founder of TechActivist.org
Presented by Courage, www.couragefound.org, an international whistleblower support network, campaigning for the public and legal defense of Julian Assange and for the protection of truthtellers and the public’s right to know, internationally.
Co-sponsored by CUNY-NLG, CUNY Law American Constitution Society, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), National Lawyers Guild-NYC, NYC Free Assange, Big Apple Coffee Party, O/R Books