Antifascist Reading Group:
SURVEILLANCE
**Please Note Change of Date!**
Tuesday, April 4, 6:30-9pm
Antenna, 3718 St. Claude
THEME #1 of Antenna’s Antifascist Reading Group is State Surveillance and Community Security, featuring a discussion of the tools, tactics, reach and implications of broad-sweeping surveillance through the lens of fiction and non-fiction. Antenna is pleased to announce that Professor Bill Quigley, JD, will co-facilitate the conversation.
The two books for this theme will be “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State” by Glenn Greenwald (304 pages, Picador, 2015) and “The Shockwave Rider” by John Brunner (288 pages, Del Ray, 1995 {orig. 1975}). We are grateful to Maple Street Book Shop, who will carry copies of the books we will be reading all year for those who want to shop local; Antenna will also have copies in our lending library for those who don’t wish or are unable to purchase their own copies!
Bill Quigley is a law professor and Director of the Law Clinic and the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center at Loyola University New Orleans. He served as Legal Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights. He has been an active public interest lawyer since 1977. Bill has served as counsel with a wide range of public interest organizations on issues including Katrina social justice issues, public housing, voting rights, death penalty, living wage, civil liberties, educational reform, constitutional rights and civil disobedience. Bill has litigated numerous cases with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., the Advancement Project, and with the ACLU of Louisiana, for which he served as General Counsel for over 15 years. Bill received the 2006 Camille Gravel Civil Pro Bono Award from the Federal Bar Association New Orleans Chapter. Bill received the 2006 Stanford Law School National Public Service Award and the 2006 National Lawyers Guild Ernie Goodman award. He has also been an active volunteer lawyer with School of the Americas Watch and the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti. Bill is the author of Ending Poverty As We Know It: Guaranteeing A Right to A Job At A Living Wage (2003) and Storms Still Raging: Katrina, New Orleans and Social Justice (2008). In 2003, he was named the Pope Paul VI National Teacher of Peace by Pax Christi USA and is the recipient of the 2004 SALT Teaching Award presented by the Society of American Law Teachers.
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