What: Building an Illinois We Can be Proud of . . . the 2009 American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois Action Summit
When: Saturday, March 28, 2009 – 9:15 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Where: Brown Ballroom
Bone Student Center
Illinois State University Campus
100 North University Street
Normal, Illinois
Who: Keynote Address by Caroline Fredrickson, Director of the ACLU National Legislative Office, Washington, DC
The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois brings the 2009 Annual Membership meeting to the campus of Illinois State University on Saturday, March 28th. The event draws together more than 200 ACLU of Illinois members from across the state to make plans to move the organization’s agenda forward with new executive administrations in Washington, DC and Springfield. The keynote address at the event will be presented by Caroline Fredrickson who leads the national ACLU’s lobbying efforts in Washington, DC. Ms. Fredrickson will review the first 70 days of the Obama Administration and provide a forecast for civil liberties issues in the new Administration and the new Congress. Other elements of the program will focus on grassroots lobbying, communications and planning for the future.
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I’ve been under the weather so I won’t be making it, but if you can do.