Surveillance, Detention & the New Normal: The Deteriorating State of the Bill of Rights

Sat, 2012-02-25 14:00

A Talk by Shahid Buttar, Executive Director, Bill of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC)
 
About Shahid Buttar: Shahid Buttar serves as Executive Director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, a national network mobillizing grassroots action to resist and roll back the national security state.  Since graduating from Stanford Law School in 2003, he served on the senior staff of the American Constitution Society for Law & Policy, as well as Muslim Advocates, after a public interest litigation career.  Shahid's comments have been featured by news outlets including The Washington Post, The New York Times, USA Today, CNN, al-Jazeera, FOX News, Agence-France Presse, Huffington Post, Truthout, Democracy Now!, and many others, including dozens of radio stations around the country.  In addition to his work as a civil rights lawyer and community organizer leading BORDC, Shahid serves on the advisory bodies of several national organizations and coalitions, and also supports populist constitutionalism as an independent columnist and hip-hop & electronica MC.

Contacts:

Amina Rab: 469-774-5215
Anne Shuttee: 214-237-2922
Hadi Jawad: 214-392-2939

Sponsors: CAIR-DFW and Amnesty International - Dallas Chapter