Please join us for an evening with Glenn Greenwald, prominent author, journalist, and political commentator from Salon.com. Come see why the Atlantic has named Glenn one of the “25 Most Influential Political Commentators”.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2012 THE GROVE HOTEL, BOISE, ID 6:00 p.m.
Glenn Greenwald is a former Constitutional and civil rights litigator and current Contributing Writer at Salon.com. He is the author of three New York Times Bestselling books: two on the Bush administration's executive power and foreign policy abuses, and his 2011 book, With Liberty and Justice for Some, an indictment of America's two-tiered system of justice.
Greenwald was named by The Atlantic as one of the 25 most influential political commentators in the nation. He is the recipient of the first annual I.F. Stone Award for Independent Journalism, and is the winner of the 2010 Online Journalism Association Award for his investigative work on the arrest and oppressive detention of Bradley Manning.
"Glenn Greenwald is not just the American Left's most fearless political commentator; his fearlessness is such that he has shifted the expectations for everyone else, too. His rock-ribbed principles and absolute disregard for partisan favor have made U.S. political discourse edgier, more confrontational, and much, much better." -Rachel Maddow
President Barack Obama walks to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (Credit: AP)
ACLU sues Obama administration over assassination secrecy By Glenn Greenwald 2.2.12
The ACLU yesterday filed a lawsuit against various agencies of the Obama administration — the Justice and Defense Departments and the CIA — over their refusal to disclose any information about the assassination of American citizens. In October, the ACLU filed a FOIA request demanding disclosure of the most basic information about the CIA’s killing of 3 American citizens in Yemen: Anwar Awlaki and Samir Khan, killed by missiles fired by a U.S. drone in September, and Awlaki’s 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman, killed by another drone attack two weeks later. Read more at Salon.com
Glenn Greenwald Reception
Join us at a pre-event reception with the speaker at 6pm at The Grove Hotel. The reception is being hosted by the Pride Foundation, which in addition, will do a free raffle to give $100 to an Idaho non-profit.
The Pride Foundation was founded in lat 1985 by four committed individuals, who believed that the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community needed its own philanthropic organization. They were aided by the Greater Seattle Business Association (GSBA) and devoted the agency solely to raising and managing substantial funds to address the growing challenges facing the community, not the least of which was the new and frightening prospect of HIV/AIDS. Learn more about the Pride Foundation.
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