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WASHINGTON:
Free
Video
and
Lunch-Talk
Series
6/25/99
The Institute for Policy
Studies' Drug Policy and Foreign Policy in Focus projects invite you to
attend their RETHINKING THE DRUG WAR: A FREE SUMMER VIDEO AND SPEAKER SERIES.
Films (with experts to speak following film) will be shown weekly though
August 19th. Cosponsored by the Progressive Challenge and the Social
Action and Leadership School for Activists.
RETHINKING THE DRUG WAR:
A Free Summer Video and
Speaker Series
Thursdays, noon to 2:00pm
Institute for Policy Studies,
733 15th St., NW, Suite 1020, Washington, DC
Sponsored by IPS' Drug Policy
and Foreign Policy in Focus Projects Brown Bag lunch series. Drinks
and dessert provided. For information, contact Samara or Jenny at
(202) 234-9382, ext. 220.
Thursday, June 24:
Video- "The Drug Dilemma:
War or Peace" (Walter Cronkite)
Drug War 101: Overview of
US Policy
Speaker: Paul Lewin (Research
Director, Common Sense for Drug Policy)
Thursday, July 1:
Video- "Seeds of War" (Australian
documentary)
A History of the US War
on Drugs
Speakers: William Chambliss
(Author and Professor, GWU) and Carol Bergman (Research and Policy Reform
Center)
Thursday, July 8:
Video- "America's War on
Drugs" (America's Defense Monitor)
Addicted to Failure: the
US Drug War Overseas
Speakers: Coletta Youngers
(Washington Office on Latin America) and Peter Zirnite (DC-based journalist)
Thursday, July 15:
Video- "Unholy Alliance"
(The CIA,the Afghan War, and heroin trafficking) Covert Operations and
the Drug Trade Speaker: Bob Parry (Editor and Publisher, I.F. Magazine)
Thursday, July 22:
Video- "Sex, Drugs, and
Democracy" (The Dutch Model)
International Drug Policy
and Alternatives
Speaker: Scott Ehlers (Senior
Policy Analyst, Drug Policy Foundation)
Thursday, July 29:
Video- "Snitch" (PBS Frontline
documentary)
How the System Operates:
Police, Prosecutors, and Drug Laws
Speaker: Eric Sterling (President,
Criminal Justice Policy Foundation)
Thursday, August 5: Video-
"The Corner" (Nightline program on a Baltimore drug market)
Race, Poverty, and the Drug
Economy
Speaker: Cheryl Epps (DC-based
drug policy expert)
Thursday, August 12:
Video- "Women of Substance"
(Mothers and Addiction)
Other Casualties of the
Drug War: Women and Students
Speakers: Diane Riley (invited)(International
Harm Reduction Network) and Adam Smith (Associate Director, DRCnet)
Thursday, August 19:
Video- "The Legacy" (PBS
documentary)
Three Strikes and Other
Legislative Hysteria
Speakers: Vincent Schiraldi
(Executive Director, Justice Policy Institute) and Rep. Barbara Lee D-CA
(invited)
Visit http://www.ips-dc.org
for information about the Institute for Policy Studies and links to the
programs that are sponsoring this series.
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Issue #96, 6/25/99
Governor of New Mexico Calls Drug War Failed -- Calls for Discussion of Alternatives | Hyde's Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act Passes House Easily | Vancouver's Cannabis Cafe, Hemp BC Closed | Activist Banned from Talking About Marijuana | NEW YORK: Staten Island Assemblyman Wants Needle Exchange Banned | IDAHO: "Drug Bust: The Longest War" TV Special Preempted by Drug Testing Speech in Boise | News in Brief | Supreme Court Roundup | WASHINGTON: Free Video and Lunch-Talk Series | Editorial: Can't Keep a Good Idea Down
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