Date:

April 3, 2009 7:00pm 

Location:

Peace Action Meeting Hall, 1001 E. Keefe, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Full Description:

A TEACH-IN ON 

 THE NATIONAL GUARD, WAR POWERS,

   & WHAT WISCONSIN CAN DO TO END ILLEGAL WARS

 

featuring:

 

BENSON SCOTCH

Senior legal counsel to the national Bring the Guard Home! It's the Law. campaign.

 

BEN MANSKI

Executive Director, Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution.

 

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Additional Information:

 

Benson Scotch, the recently retired Executive Director of Vermont's ACLU, has spent his entire legal career working to enhance and improve our democracy.  At the ACLU Ben worked hard to highlight the importance to our democracy of protecting the individual rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights and the Vermont Constitution.  Prior to serving with the ACLU, Ben was Senior Staff Attorney to the Vermont Supreme Court for 15 years.

A Harvard Law School graduate, Ben began his career in public service by working for a summer at the Association of American Indian Affairs. He became a member of the legal board of the American Jewish Committee, a civil liberties organization in NYC.  During the 1970’s Ben was Assistant Attorney General in Vermont, with a focus on environmental enforcement, followed by years of service as Staff Counsel to Senator Patrick Leahy on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Today, Ben is senior counsel to the "Bring the Guard Home! It's the Law," a campaign of veterans, military families, and citizen advocates to democratize defense policy by ending unlawful deployments of the National Guard.

 

Ben Manski is Executive Director of the Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution, and the national coordinator of the Bring the Guard Home! It's the Law. campaign. Politically active for more than two decades, at 34 Manski has worked in scores of organizations and served as national leadership for the Green Party of the United States (co-chair from 2001 through 2004), Campus Greens, Greenpeace, Democracy Teach-Ins, No Stolen Elections!, and United We March for Peace and Justice, among others.

Manski is an attorney, receiving his JD from the University of Wisconsin in 2005. He has been a featured speaker on over 50 campuses and at dozens of conferences, from Barcelona to Seattle, and has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Washington Times, Chicago Tribune, The Nation, The Progressive, Mother Jones, The Call, In These Times, as well as on National Public Radio, Air America, Pacifica, CNN, ABC News, Fox News, as well as a frequent guest on Wisconsin Public Radio.

Areas of Focus:

Afghanistan (Bring The Guard Home), Defense Reform (Bring The Guard Home), Democratizing Defense (Liberty Tree), Iraq (Bring The Guard Home)

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