March 3-4, New York, NY, "Latinos in the US: The Evolving Relationship with Latin America." The Latin American Law Students Association presents the Second Annual Latino Law Symposium, addressing the historic, complex and growing relations between Latinos in the United States and Latin America. Panels and debates will focus on the drug war, immigration, law and development, and the 2000 US Census. The drug war panel will take place Saturday, March 4 from 3:00-5:00pm, and will feature journalists Mario Menendez and Al Giordano, Ethan Nadelmann of The Lindesmith Center, Winifred Tate of the Washington Office on Latin America, former drug war prisoner Anthony Pappa, and retired New York Supreme Court Justice Jerome Marks. For further information, contact lalsa@law.columbia.edu.
May 17-20, Washington, DC, the 13th International Conference on Drug Policy Reform, sponsored by the Drug Policy Foundation. Visit http://www.dpf.org or call (202) 537-5005 for further information. The deadline for paper and panel abstracts is Monday, Feb. 28 and the deadline for scholarship requests is Monday, April 3; submissions can be sent by e-mail to conferences@dpf.org or by fax to (202) 537-3007.
March 14, 4:00-6:00pm, New York, NY, seminar at The Lindesmith Center: "Let's Get Real: New Directions in Drug Education." Marsha Rosenbaum, PhD, director, The Lindesmith Center West and Lynn Zimmer, PhD, professor of sociology, Queens College, CUNY, critique traditional models of drug education. Rosenbaum, author of Safety First: A Reality-Based Approach to Teens, Drugs, and Drug Education (1999), and Zimmer, coauthor of Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts: A Review of the Scientific Evidence (1999), examine new directions for educating teenagers about drugs.
March 30, 4:00-6:00pm, New York, NY, seminar at The Lindesmith Center: "MDMA ('Ecstasy') Research: When Science and Politics Collide." Julie Holland, MD, attending psychiatrist, Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Emergency Room and faculty, NYU School of Medicine, John P. Morgan, MD, professor of pharmacology, City College of New York, and Rick Doblin, president, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) and PhD candidate, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, assess scientific and political efforts to conduct MDMA research in the US and abroad.
(Lindesmith Center Seminars are held at the Open Society Institute, 400 West 59th Street (between 9th and 10th Avenues), 3rd Floor. Call (212)548-0695 or e-mail lbeniquez@sorosny.org to reserve a place.)
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| Issue #126, 2/25/00 LA Cops Union Suspects High-Level Corruption, Calls for Outside Investigator | Higher Education Act Reform Campaign Update | Two Million Prisoner Mark Sparks Discussion in Nation's Most Incarcerated State, as DOJ Condemns Juvenile Prison Conditions | UN Drug Report Warns Against Injecting Rooms | Canadian Civil Liberties Association Seeks Investigation of Mass Strip Search at Rave | News in Brief | Jim Miller Trial Begins March 1, Protests March and April in DC and New Jersey | EVENTS: Latinos in the US, DPF Conference, Lindesmith Center Seminars | Editorial: Not a War |
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