Annual Greater Tampa Chapter of the ACLU of Florida Membership Meeting

Wednesday, 9 March 2011 beginning at 6:30 PM to 8:45 PM at the John F. Germany Public Library (Hillsborough County's Main Library), Main Auditorium, 900 North Ashley Drive, Tampa, Florida 33602-3788 was a great success.  The program and events included the following.

?Challenges to Civil Liberties in Florida Governments and Legislature?

Panel of Speakers:

Danielle Prendergast , Ph.D. ? Public Policy Director, ACLU of Florida. Danielle has a wealth of both policy and legislative experience at the state and federal levels. She worked in both the private and non-profit sectors, lobbied Congress, served as a legislative policy analyst for the Maryland General Assembly, worked on policy issues for an organization dealing with welfare reform, and served as a research fellow for several universities and organizations, including the United Negro College Fund.

Rob Lorei ? Rob is the News and Public Affairs Director, WMNF 88.5 FM ( http://www.WMNF.org ) Community Radio and Managing Editor of WEDU-TV?s Florida This Week. He graduated from Antioch College with a BA in Journalism in 1977. During his daily Radioactivity talk show and his televised public affairs programs, Rob covers local, state and national politics interviewing a wide-range of guests and providing extraordinary personal insight. He has moderated numerous televised candidate and issue debates.

Patrick Manteiga ? Patrick is the Editor and Publisher of Ybor City?s La Gaceta, the nation?s only tri-lingual newspaper: Spanish, Italian and English; ( http://LaGacetaNewspaper.com/ ). His column ?As We Heard It? appears in every edition. Patrick is also a political consultant ? a well-connected, knowledgeable insider ? and one of the most astute political analysts in the area.

Other past events included the following.

Reckoning w. Torcher: from the "War on Terror" Date: Thursday, 22 April 2010 from 6PM to 8:30 PM.

Reckoning with Torcher: Memos and Testimonies from the "War on Terror"
Location: Reeves Theater in the Vaughn Center at the Univ. of Tampa, 401 W. Kennedy Blvd., Tampa, FL 33601; Reckoning with Torcher: Memos and Testimonies from the "War on Terror"
Featuring:
Professor James Beckman, Chair of Government and World Affairs, University of Tampa
Professor Mary Anderson, Assistant Professor of Government and World Affairs, University of Tampa
Professor Chris Gurrie, Assistant Professor and Director of Speech, University of Tampa
Col. Mike Pheneger, National ACLU Board & Retired U.S. Army Intelligence Officer And performances from students from the University of Tampa!
Cosponsoring this event: The Mid-Florida Regional Offices of the ACLU of Florida, ACLU of Florida, The Greater Tampa Chapter of the ACLU of Florida, The Department of Speech, Theatre, and Dance in the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Tampa.

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Updated Monday, 28 March 2011.