Conference Schedule

You are invited to join fellow civil libertarians
for a day of liberty and justice in Iowa City
Saturday, April 12, 2008.

Afternoon:	Conference on Civil Liberties – featuring attorneys with experience representing detainees at Guantanamo Bay Prison.
Evening:	Annual Dinner – featuring ACLU National Legislative Director Caroline Fredrickson.

The Board of Directors of the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa invites you to join us for our annual Conference on Civil Liberties to be held on Saturday, April 12, 2008, at the University of Iowa Memorial Union in Iowa City. This year we are excited to announce that the conference will be featuring two defense attorneys who have actually represented detainees held at the infamous prison at Guantanamo Bay.

Public welcome, advance conference reservations at $15-20/person ($5 for students) required by Thursday, April 10. To register/pay, click on button at bottom of this page and follow instructions, or call 515/243-3576, ext. 13.

The afternoon’s conference workshops will focus on three main topics of three sessions each and include: Protecting Our Elections, Habeas Corpus & the Rule of Law, and Reproductive Justice. Each workshop will have its own session leader or panel – all are top speakers and experts in their field. Q&As will conclude each workshop session. It is a tremendous honor that these leaders from across Iowa will be sharing their insights and visions at our conference this year. You won’t want to miss this conference!

Protecting Our Elections:
Pat Jensen is the former President of the League of Women Voters of Iowa and a former board member of the national LOWV.
Dr. Carole Simmons is a citizen activist and co-chair of Iowans for Voting Integrity. She is retired from a career in human factors and transportation safety research.
Sean Flaherty is co-chair of Iowans for Voting Integrity, a grassroots group whose goal is verified voting.
Habeas Corpus & the Rule of Law (3 hrs Iowa CLE credits approved):
Angela Campbell of Des Moines took on the representation as a public defender of four Afghan nationals who were arrested and detained at Guantanamo Bay. She recently returned from Afghanistan where she has continued to fight for her clients’ rights to a fair trial.
Tom Fleener of Des Moines, a major in the Army Reserves, represented a detainee in President Bush’s Military Commissions. As a result, he has become an outspoken public critic of these tribunals, and has appeared in stories in the Ames Tribune, the NY Times and GQ Magazine.
Reproductive Justice:
Jessica Hook is a Research Assistant in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Iowa.
Karen Kubby is the Executive Director of the Emma Goldman Clinic, a 34-year old feminist non-profit reproductive health care facility located in Iowa City.
Dr. Jill Vibhakar is an Assoc. Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at The U of Iowa. She also serves as the Medical Director of the Family Planning Council of Iowa and as the UIHC liaison to the Emma Goldman Clinic.

At the conclusion of the conference, please join us in the same location for our Annual Dinner, hosted by the ACLU Foundation of Iowa and the Hawkeye Area Chapter. See below for more details.

CAROLINE FREDRICKSON NATIONAL ACLU LEGISLATIVE
DIRECTOR TO SPEAK AT ANNUAL DINNER
SATURDAY, APRIL 12 – 6:00 PM – IOWA CITY

Keynote Address: "On Line, Off Line, and Out of Line: Adapting to Changes in Legislative Leadership"

Public welcome, advance dinner reservations at $35/person required by Thursday, April 10. To register/pay, click on button at bottom of this page and follow instructions, or call 515/243-3576, ext. 13.

Caroline Fredrickson is the director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Washington Legislative Office. As director, Fredrickson leads all federal lobbying for the national ACLU, the nation's oldest and largest civil liberties organization. She is also the organization’s top lobbyist, and supervises the nearly 60-person Washington legislative team in promoting ACLU priorities in Congress, the White House and federal agencies.

Fredrickson leads the ACLU’s Washington Legislative Office at a critical juncture for civil liberties, when groups and individuals on both the left and the right are fighting to defend our fundamental freedoms from invasive security measures that make America neither safe nor free. In addition to working with liberal and progressive advocates, she spearheads the ACLU’s outreach to conservative civil libertarians and works closely with the ACLU’s conservative allies such as former Congressman J.C. Watts (R-OK) on criminal justice issues and David Keene of the American Conservative Union on prisoner’s rights, privacy and national security issues.

Prior to joining the ACLU, Fredrickson was the general counsel and legal director for NARAL Pro-Choice America. Fredrickson also has years of experience as a senior staffer on Capitol Hill. She served as chief of staff for Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), developing the senator’s legislative and press strategies, and participating in Cantwell’s fundraising and policy decisions. She was deputy chief of staff to Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, working on legislative activity and cooperating with the Clinton White House and House Democratic leadership to develop agenda and strategy. In 1998 and 1999, she was a special assistant to the president for legislative affairs, a position that required her to work closely with both parties in the Senate to forge bipartisan agreements on the White House’s legislative priorities.

Fredrickson has published on various topics including labor law and German and American anti-discrimination law in the Brooklyn Journal of Law & Policy, Columbia Law Review, The New York Times and Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning.

Fredrickson graduated summa cum laude from Yale University and received her law degree from Columbia University, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and received the Emil Schlesinger Prize for her proficiency in labor law. At Columbia, she served on the Columbia Law Review and co-founded the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law.

To register/pay for Conference and/or Annual Dinner, click below!

Conference Schedule