2007 ACLU-PA Membership Conference

The ACLU of PA invites its members and the general public to attend our annual conference. This year we've moved the event to Camp Hill (across the river from Harrisburg). It's a great chance to meet and mingle with like-minded people who share your concerns about civil liberties!

Saturday, May 5, 2007
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Radisson Penn Harris Hotel & Convention Center
1150 Camp Hill Bypass
Camp Hill, PA

Program Highlights

Keynote Panel — Civil Liberties Post 11/7: The Effect of the Election on Civil Liberties

Caroline Fredrickson

Panelists:

Caroline Fredrickson, Director of the ACLU's Washington Legislative Office

Larry Frankel, Legislative Director, ACLU of Pennsylvania

Plenary — ACLU Myth-Busting: How to Correct Misinformation about the ACLU

Vic Walczak, Legal Director, ACLU of Pennsylvania

This plenary was created to help our members who are tired of hearing accusations that the ACLU supports child pornography and hates Christians.  This light-hearted plenary will give you the tools to defend the ACLU from people who have their facts wrong.

Workshops:

• Guantánamo Bay: America's Legal Black Hole *
  Christopher J. Huber, Esq. & Benjamin P. Cooper, Esq., Pepper Hamilton 
• Local Anti-Immigrant Ordinances: Why They Jeopardize Everyone's Civil Liberties *
  Shamaine Daniels, Esq., Community Justice Project, & Jessica Levy, ACLU of Pennsylvania
• The School-to-Prison Pipeline
  Mary Catherine Roper, Esq., ACLU of Pennsylvania
• The War on Science
  Paul Finkelman, Albany Law School, & Julie Petrella, ACLU of Pennsylvania
• The Death Penalty
  Andy Hoover, ACLU of Pennsylvania 
• Students' Rights**
  

*CLE (Continuing Legal Education) credit available
**Act 48 credit available

Childcare will be provided for the conference on Saturday!

Registration information

Member registration: $65

Non-member registration: $85 

Student/low-income registration: $20

Registration can be done online or by downloading the registration form and mailing it along with a check made payable to the ACLU of PA to:

ACLU of PA Membership Conference
PO Box 40008
Philadelphia, PA  19106