FIRST NATIONAL TEACH-IN ON FREEDOM AT RISK IN AMERICA

February 23, 2008

We cordially invite you to attend the FIRST NATIONAL TEACH-IN ON FREEDOMS
AT RISK IN AMERICA, hosted by the College of Arts and Science (CAS) Student
Council of New York University.

This all-day event will be an interactive forum featuring numerous renowned
academics and intellectuals both from within and outside of the NYU
faculty, and will be open to the public and to the press throughout the day.

FREEDOMS AT RISK will be kicked off in the morning with two classic-style
teach-ins: our TEACH-IN ON FREEDOMS AT RISK IN POLITICS, and our TEACH-IN
ON FREEDOMS AT RISK IN ACADEMIA. Both will begin at 10:00 a.m. and continue
through 5:00 p.m. Following a two-hour recess, FREEDOMS AT RISK will resume
with our evening PLENUM, which is set to run from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

At FREEDOMS AT RISK, student, professional, and public attendees will be
encouraged to take an active role in the Conference by posing questions on
the topics covered and engaging in discussion and debate with our guest
speakers.

Those guests who have so generously agreed to join us and speak at our
PLENUM include: NORMAN FINKELSTEIN, whose academic controversy at DePaul
University in Chicago has made several headlines over the last year. He
has held faculty positions at numerous higher-learning institutions, and is the
author of five books including international best-seller The Holocaust Industry:
Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering; LYNNE STEWART, a
political activist and attorney who is noted for representing unpopular clients, and
has experienced extensive recent political oppression. An advocate of the
constitutional right to due process of law, she fights to see that right
extended to anyone who is tried within the American legal system; ELLEN SCHRECKER, an
outspoken advocate of academic freedoms and a professor of American history
at Yeshiva University who has also taught at a number of other institutions. A
successful author, she has written such books as Many Are the Crimes:
McCarthyism in America; MARK CRISPIN MILLER, a professor of Media Studies
at NYU who actively supports democratic media reform. He is also an accomplished
author, having written Fooled Again, How the Right Stole the 2004 Elections
and Seeing Through Movies; and MICHAEL SMITH, a New York City Attorney and
author who sits on the Executive Board of the Center for Constitutional Rights and
co-hosts the WBAI radio program Law and Disorder with Michael Ratner and
Heidi Boghosian. He recently edited William Kunstler’s noteworthy piece, “The
Emerging Police State.”


For the TEACH-INS, we welcome among others: JOHN GERASSI, a renowned
professor of political science at Queens College, who has written several
books on politics and international affairs including an official biography of
Jean-Paul Sartre; PETER N. KIRSTEIN a professor of history and author from
Chicago's Saint Xavier University, and a nationally recognized advocate of
academic freedom and free-speech rights. He has been profiled in conservative writer
David Horowitz‚s book, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics
in America; and LORIE VAN AUKEN, a “Jersey Girl” and winner of Glamour
Magazine’s 2004 Woman of the Year Award for her work with the other “Jersey Girls”
in successfully lobbying for an independent investigation into the events of
September 11th, 2001. She has been interviewed several times on national
television and appears in the documentary 9/11 Press for Truth.

These and other notable speakers are sure to make the TEACH-IN ON FREEDOMS
AT RISK IN AMERICA—the first of its kind in the nation—a truly
monumental and memorable event.

FREEDOMS AT RISK will be hosted on the 4th floor of the Helen and Martin
Kimmel Center for University Life at 60 Washington Square South, New York,
NY. An entire floor has been reserved, and refreshments will be provided for
all. We are excited and honored to have the occasion to host this TEACH-IN
Conference, and we sincerely hope to have you join us for what promises to
be an intellectually stimulating and precedent-setting event!

Sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences Student Council of NYU

Time: 10am-10pm