Indefinite Detention of U.S. Citizens? A Bipartisan Assault on the Bill of Rights

Thu, 2012-02-23 12:00

Speaker: Shahid Buttar

Moderator: Professor Sahar F. Aziz

Food is provided.

Shahid Buttar as executive director leads the Bill of Rights Defense Committee and the People's Campaign for the Constitution (PCC) in their efforts to defend civil liberties, constitutional rights, and rule of law principles threatened by the war on terror. Previously director of a national program to combat racial and religious profiling by federal authorities, an associate director of the American Constitution Society, and a litigator in private practice with a public interest docket, Buttar received his J.D. from Stanford Law School in 2003.

In addition to his work leading BORDC, Shahid serves on the advisory bodies of the Rights Working Group, the National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms, the National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights, and South Asian Americans Leading Together. He also supports populist constitutionalism as a civil rights lawyer, independent columnist, community organizer, and hip-hop and electronica MC. In his creative capacities as a poet and musician, Shahid has performed around the world, co-founded several grassroots art and culture groups around the country, facilitated workshops for young people and emerging artists, and released his debut CD, Get Outta Your Chair, in 2008.

Sponsored by the American Constitution Society.