Announcement

The ACLU Washington Legislative Office and the ACLU of Alabama will host a townhall meeting in Birmingham, Alabama on the need to repair the current discriminatory federal drug sentencing policy. The event is open to the press, and ACLU speakers will be available afterwards for interviews.

Please join us for DRUGS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD (Is Drug Policy Making Things Worse?) There will be a light supper 5:30 - 6:00 followed by the discussion 6:00 - 8:00. Topics include: Where do we go from here?

The weekly cable show EUGENE CANNABIS T.V. will be filmed. For more information, call 541-517-0957 or see http://mercycenters.org/events/Meet_CLF.htm.

Please join the League of Women Voters of Connecticut for our annual meeting featuring guest speaker Cliff Thorton. Mr. Thornton is the founder of Efficacy, a non-profit organization that has been concentrating on drug policy reform. He was the Gubernatorial candidate for the Green Party in 2006. He has lectured frequently in this country and abroad and has always captivated his audiences. His topic will be:

Each year the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) publishes a report called The National Drug Control Strategy. Those reports are supposed to provide information about trends in drug use and assess federal programs that are aimed at reducing the supply of and demand for illegal drugs. Policymakers rely on that information in making budget decisions and holding executive branch agencies accountable. Matthew B. Robinson and Renee G. Scherlen conducted an independent review of those reports, and their research found numerous instances in which information was distorted to justify continuing the war on drugs. Join us for a discussion of the use and abuse of statistics and of policy recommendations for changing the federal approach to problems associated with drug use.

Join thousands of people of faith from Colombia and North America to pray for an end to violence and suffering in Colombia, and act to end unjust U.S. policies that contribute to the humanitarian crisis! More than 100 congregations in the U.S., Canada and Colombia have already confirmed their participation - will you join the list? Send Jennifer an email to let us know if you're participating at [email protected].

Come and join us as we send a message that the time has come for open and honest government in Trenton and the Libertarian Party plans to lead the way in this fight this coming November. We will make our historic march across the bridge to Trenton to deliver our candidates petitions and insure they are on the ballot this coming November. Once over the bridge we will be stopping for lunch at The Pier, 3430 Rt. 37 east, Toms River. From there we will continue on to Trenton delivering our petitions on Tuesday afternoon to election officials.

Please join us in Washington, D.C. for a meeting bringing together criminal justice advocates from around the U.S. to discuss racial discrimination in the U.S. criminal justice system as it relates to the UN Convention for the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD). The U.S. Government has just filed a report to the UN Committee that oversees the treaty on its efforts to end racial discrimination in the U.S. Non-governmental organizations now have an opportunity to provide input to the Committee regarding U.S. compliance through "shadow reports."

The Illinois Consortium on Drug Policy is pleased to invite you to a report briefing entitled Through A Different Lens: Shifting the Focus on Illinois Drug Policy, An examination of states’ solutions and applicability to Illinois

Join NORML this summer for a two-day CLE program at The Gant in Aspen, CO. CLE Seminar Topics include: * Drug Courts * Legal Research on the Internet * Fighting the Government in "Terrorist" Times