Free Speech in Hateful Times: Navigating the First Amendment After Charlottesville-
ACLU Forum on the First Amendment after Charlottesville
Tuesday, DECEMBER 5 * 7 PM *
At: RESOURCE CENTER FOR NONVIOLENCE, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz
FREE
The Santa Cruz Chapter of the ACLU of Northern
California presents “Free Speech in Hateful Times: Navigating the First
Amendment After Charlottesville.” Our distinguished speakers will be
Christine Sun, the Associate Director and Legal and Policy Director of the
ACLU of Northern California, and Zahra Billoo, the Executive Director of the
San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic
Relations. The conversation will be moderated by Peter Gelblum, the Chair
of the Santa Cruz Chapter of ACLU-NC. The event is co-sponsored by
the Resource Center for Nonviolence.
This past August in Charlottesville, Virginia, white supremacists and neo-
Nazis propounded racist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic messages,
conducted a torch-light march reminiscent of both the Ku Klux Klan and
Nazis, and violently attacked counter-protesters, including driving a car into
a crowd, killing one young woman and injuring many others. The violence
that occurred in Charlottesville has caused civil libertarians around the
country to examine their historic, staunch, and absolutist defense of the
First Amendment when it comes into conflict with co-equal Constitutional
rights, such as Equal Protection, and other vital civil liberties, including
racial justice. What should lovers of civil liberties do when the goal of those
seeking to exercise their rights to free speech and assembly is to deny
others those same rights and/or to harm others? This Conversation will
explore this complex, thorny issue in depth.
More info: 831-703- 4370.