A couple of cool forums coming up

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How to Exercise Your Right to Dissent: An Educational Forum for Community & Student Activists
7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27
UNCA Highsmith Center, Room 221

The UNCA and WNC chapters of the American Civil Liberties Union have organized a public education forum to focus on the rights of and restrictions on protesters in exercising their first amendment rights to express disagreement with government and corporate policies and activities.

Newly announced members of the panel include Asheville City Councilwoman Robin Cape, City Attorney Robert Oast and local political and social activist Clare Hanrahan. UNCA Professor Mark Gibney, UNCA’s Belk Distinguished Professor of Humanities, will moderate.

UNCA Professor Dwight Mullen and Kati Ketz, president of UNCA Students for a Democratic Society President, will be there, as will Attorney Frank Goldsmith. Asheville Mayor Terry Bellamy, Asheville Police Chief Hogan, and Buncombe County Sheriff Duncan have also been invited.

Topics will include important local issues raised by the flag “desecration” case and the recent Bank of America protest. For more information, please contact Alex Cury at 253-5088 or [email protected].

Immigration forum
7 p.m. Sept. 24 at the Jewish Community Center in Asheville
Co-Sponsors: League of Women Voters and the Congregation Beth Ha Tephila

UNCA Professor Mark Gibney will place the current immigration debate into a broader historical and legal context by providing an overview of the history of U.S. immigration policy and our current immigration situation – legal and illegal immigration alike.