Libraries, ACLU Present Program on the USA PATRIOT Law at the Puffin Foundation November 12, 2003
The USA PATRIOT Act and its effect on civil liberties is a matter of intense
national and local debate. The
New Jersey American Civil Liberties Union, the
Englewood Public Library, the Teaneck Public Library
and the Puffin
Foundation have joined together to sponsor a program titled: “USA PATRIOT:
What’s Next? Who’s Next? What We Can Do!” on Wednesday evening, November 12 at
7:00 pm at the Puffin Foundation, 20 Oakdene Ave. E. in Teaneck, New Jersey.
Featured speakers will be Ann Beeson, the Associate Legal Director of the
American Civil Liberties Union
and Nancy Kranich, past President of the
American Library Association. John Flynn, a political
folksinger from
Delaware, will join in with his original and timely songs.
The meeting will be organized as conversation between our two speakers,
musical interludes and questions
from the floor. Emphasis will be placed on
current activities and legislation seeking to curb USA PATRIOT and what US
people can do to defend civil liberties.
The program is free and open to the public. For more information call Ann
Sparanese, Head of Adult & Young Adult Services at the Englewood Library,
201-568-2215,
ext 229.
For directions to the Puffin Foundation see the Puffin website at http://www.puffinfoundation.org/forum/direction.html or call the Puffin Foundation at 201-836-8923.
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Text of the USA PATRIOT Act:
http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/hr3162.html
Text of the draft of the USA PATRIOT Act II, the Domestic Security
Enhancement Act of 2003
http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/patriot2-hi.pdf
March 17, 2003 Letter to Congress regarding the Domestic Security Enhancement Act (DSEA)http://www.sla.org/Documents/Patriot_II.htm
June 13 letter from Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), chairman of the House
Judiciary Committee, and Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), the ranking Democrat on the
committee, to Attorney General John D. Ashcroft, requesting information about
the implementation of the Act:
http://www.house.gov/judiciary/ashcroft061302.htm
American Civil Liberties Union pages:
Surveillance Powers: A Chart from
the ACLU
http://archive.aclu.org/issues/privacy/Patriot_Chart_law.html
ACLU
Fact Sheet on USA PATRIOT Act II
http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=12234&c=206
American Library Association information page:
http://www.ala.org/washoff/patriot.html
Center for Constitutional Rights:
http://www.ccr-ny.org/whatsnew/usa_patriot_act.asp
Electronic Frontier Foundation Analysis of Provisions of USAPA Related to
Online Activities:
http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/Terrorism_militias/20011031_eff_usa_patriot_analysis.html
"Librarians Under Siege." By Laura Flanders. The Nation, July 25,
2002:
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=13676
Impacts of the USA PATRIOT Act on Libraries and Banks - compiled by David
Dillard, Temple University
http://www.freelists.org/archives/nethappenings/03-2003/msg00071.html
Webographies and other resources on the USA PATRIOT Act compiled by David
Dillard, Temple University
http://www.freelists.org/archives/nethappenings/03-2003/msg00075.html
http://kootenaycuts.com/archive/?3324
Last updated: November 3, 2003