THIS FRIDAY: Direct Action Panel at Stanford Law School

[Guest guest]

" AGAINST THE LAW: DIRECT ACTION, CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, AND SOCIAL CHANGE "

FRIDAY, NOV. 4, 4:45-6:15 PM

STANFORD LAW SCHOOL

PALO ALTO, CA

Directions: www.law.stanford.edu/about/dirmap/driving.html

 

This Friday, Stanford Law School hosts the Shaking the Foundations

Conference on Progressive Lawyering. This year's conference, open to

the public, will include a panel called " Against the Law: Direct

Action, Civil Disobedience, and Social Change. " The panel will include

Kevin Jonas from the campaign to shut down Huntingdon Life Sciences,

who will discuss the role of direct action in the animal rights

movement. Kevin is one of the SHAC7, the activists currently facing

federal criminal charges for operating a website on the campaign

against HLS. [www.shac7.com, www.shacamerica.net]. Other panelists

will address direct action in the context of other progressive social

justice struggles, including the immigrants' rights and anti-war

movements. This panel and conference represent an important

opportunity to build coalitions with other struggles against

oppression.

 

The panel is free and open to the public. However, if you plan to

attend several panels, or the keynote lunch with address by the ACLU's

national executive director Anthony Romero, please register at

http://shaking.stanford.edu. Make sure you specify the vegan option.

Lunch registration is on a sliding scale, as low as $10, (but again,

the single panel is free). Directions to the law school are available

at www.law.stanford.edu/about/dirmap/driving.html, or Mapquest the law

school, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA (http://tinyurl.com/cmg5q).

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For more details on the panel, see

http://shaking.stanford.edu/schedule/againstTheLaw.html.

 

If you have any questions, please contact Matthew Liebman at

mliebman.

 

-Matthew

 

P.S. Note that the panel is on the same day as the ARF protest against

animal experimentation at Stanford, which is at noon at the

intersection of El Camino and Quarry Road. Make this Friday an animal

rights day in the South Bay!

 

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" Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves

exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves

only the unanimity of the graveyard. "

-Justice Jackson, W. Va. State Bd. of Ed. v. Barnette (1943)