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DESCRIPTION:“Civil Liberties in the Time of Obama”\nTuesday, March 16, 1 
 PM\nFireside Room, Unitarian Center\n1187 Franklin St (betw. O’Farrell, 
 Geary)\nFree, Wheelchairs OK\nA SF Gray Panther Program, Public 
 Invited\n\nAs with war, Obama has been disappointing on civil liberties 
 issues, such as the extension of the Patriot Act, extraordinary renditions, 
 military tribunals, detentions without charges, not charging the architects 
 of torture, not closing Guantanamo, and failure to intervene in the cases 
 of Mumia and Lynne Stewart.\n\nSimilarly, Obama has been disappointing on 
 immigration issues, such as family separations, widespread ICE raids, mass 
 firings, police checkpoints, continued immigrant detention and 
 deportations, and a network of secret detention facilities violating basic 
 rights and needs. Meanwhile an immigration reform bill is being introduced 
 that promises to arouse more controversy. \n\nAngela Chan, a lawyer from 
 San Francisco’s Asian Law Caucus, a leading advocate for civil liberties, 
 will describe the impact of some of these trends, especially for San 
 Francisco’s Sanctuary City policy. \n\nMs. Chan has been active in 
 fighting the deportation of immigrant youths arrested for felonies without 
 any investigation of whether the arrests were based on facts or simply 
 racial profiling by the police. Many of these charges were later dropped, 
 but the youth are already deported to countries where they often have no 
 family support.  In response to community outrage, Supervisors passed an 
 ordinance that bars turning over juvenile immigrant arrestees to ICE unless 
 subsequent hearings establish the arrestee was actually guilty, but Mayor 
 Gavin Newsom has refused to implement this law.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/03/06/18640021.php
SUMMARY:Civil Liberties in the Time of Obama
LOCATION:Fireside Rm., Unitarian Center\n1187 Franklin St. (betw. O'Farrell, Geary)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/03/06/18640021.php
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