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NDAA forum highlights: Audience Q&A

Audience members asked a number of excellent questions and made some compelling remarks of their own. Social worker: “I think the questions that have been raised here are about how do we not just pick the lesser evil, how do … Continue reading

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NDAA forum highlights: Moderator Eric Bond Q&A

Takoma Park/Silver Spring Voice editor Eric Bond posed several questions of both panelists.  The first concerned the efficacy of resolutions like the proposed NDAA/AUMF resolution.  Referring to impeachment and anti-Iraq War resolutions, Bond pointed out that “Bush finished out his … Continue reading

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NDAA forum highlights: Shahid Buttar (BORDC)

Bill of Rights Defense Committee executive director Shahid Buttar began with a stark statement of his own: “At the moment, the right to trial and due process have effectively been statutorily suspended.  We enjoy them because of the pleasure of … Continue reading

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NDAA forum highlights: Councilmember Q&A/remarks

Councilmember Seth Grimes was on hand for the forum, as was Councilmember Kay Daniels-Cohen.  Before the meeting, Mr. Grimes had indicated he might not stay long so he could get home sooner.  So he was offered a chance to go … Continue reading

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NDAA forum highlights: Heather Hurlburt (National Security Network)

National Security Network executive director Heather Hurlburt led off her remarks with a breaking news bulletin: parents were ahead at half time by one point in the Takoma Park Elementary School parents-staff basketball game. Turning serious, Ms. Hurlburt immediately put … Continue reading

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Lively forum airs NDAA issues

Impassioned, knowledgeable speakers and a lively, engaged audience — including two Takoma Park city council members, Seth Grimes and Kay Daniels-Cohen — made for a very successful NDAA forum last night at the Takoma Park Community Center. Thomas Nephew welcomed … Continue reading

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NDAA forum welcome by Thomas Nephew: “A civil liberties emergency”

Welcome to the Montgomery County Civil Rights Coalition forum on the military detention provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2012. Our motto is “protecting civil liberties everywhere by protecting them at home.” And we try to live … Continue reading

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Takoma/Silver Spring Voice editor Eric Bond to moderate April 26th NDAA forum

The independent newspaper Takoma/Silver Spring Voice is one of the hubs of community life in Takoma Park; its editor Eric Bond is a respected community reporter who frequently chairs local political and educational events. So when we thought about who … Continue reading

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Public forum on the NDAA, April 26th in Takoma Park

WHEN: Thursday, April 26, 2012, 7:30 p.m. (click to join, share the Facebook event) WHERE: Azalea Room, Takoma Park Community Center, 7500 Maple Avenue (map) WHO: Heather Hurlburt, executive director, National Security Network WHO: Shahid Buttar, executive director, Bill of Rights … Continue reading

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1-2-3-4 We Don’t Want Your Culture War!

About 15 or 20 protesters braved the freezing rain on Saturday, October 29 to picket at a Maryland Conservative Action Network conference in Annapolis. 5-6-7-8 Stop the Lies, Stop the Hate! We were there to expose a panel titled “Is Sharia Law … Continue reading

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