Agenda | Directions and Registration | Ghosts of Abu Ghraib Screening

ACLU of Washington Annual Membership Conference 2008 Saturday, February 23 University of Washington | Kane Hall, Seattle

Agenda

12:00 pm	REGISTRATION
	KEYNOTE
12:30 pm	RELIGION AS A POLITICAL WEAPON David Domke University of Washington Associate Professor of Communications and Author, The God Strategy: How Religion Became a Political Weapon in America
	WORKSHOPS
2:15 pm	CONCURRENT PRESENTATIONS DEATH WITH DIGNITY The new initiative to empower terminally ill patients to make their own end-of-life decisions, free of government intrusion, and what can be done to pass it. WHO’S WATCHING WHERE YOU GO? The new technologies that enable government and businesses to track our our movements without our knowledge, and what safeguards are needed to maintain our privacy. CIVIL LIBERTIES AND NON-CITIZENS Government actions that are violating basic rights of non-citizens, and the ACLU’s role in bringing about fair treatment for all people in America.
	PLENARY
3:45 pm	MARIJUANA: IT’S TIME FOR A CONVERSATION A screening of the ACLU of Washington’s thought-provoking new video on the history and costly impacts of our nation’s laws prohibiting marijuana. Hosted by travel writer Rick Steves, the made-for-TV video aims to spark a long-overdue public discussion.
	EXTRA FEATURES
5:00 pm	RECEPTION Continue your conversation with fellow members over beverages and light refreshments.
6:00 - 7:30 pm	EVENING FILM SHOWING Ghosts of Abu Ghraib An award-winning documentary that examines the prisoner abuse scandal involving U.S. soldiers and detainees at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison.