THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2009                                 

5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Thorne Auditorium
Northwestern University School of Law
375 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
 
 
There will be a reading by JEFF HAAS, attorney and author of the forthcoming book, The Assassination of Fred Hampton, published by Lawrence Hill Books.
 
There will also be a panel discussion moderated by Bernardine Dohrn, Northwestern University School of Law that includes the following panelists:

Martha Biondi, Northwestern University
Adam Green, University of Chicago
Salim Muwakkil, WVON, In These Times
Prexy Nesbitt, Labor Organizer, Educator
Barbara Ransby, University of Illinois - Chicago
Dorothy Roberts, Northwestern University School of Law
David Stovall, University of Illinois - Chicago
Flint Taylor, Attorney, People's Law Office

Reception/book signing to follow.
Special honorees:Families of Fred Hampton & Mark Clark & December 4th survivors.

This event is co-sponsored by: MacArthur Justice Center, The Center on Wrongful Convictions, Northwestern University School of Law; Mandel Legal Aid Clinic, University of Chicago Law School, NCBL-Chgo, Black People Against Police Torture, Chicago Review Press and more.

This event is FREE and open to the public - REGISTRATION REQUIRED. For more information, please call:
312-503-0396 or email: e-curtis@law. northwestern. edu

 
"People should not forget that State's Attorney Hanrahan, the Chicago Police and the FBI murdered my son. This book tells the story, not only of Fred's death, but also of his life. At twenty-one Fred was already a great leader. Who knows what he may have become, if they hadn't killed him?"
 
-Iberia Hampton, Fred Hampton's mother

" In 1969 our United States veered close to becoming a police state with planned and coordinated attacks against "black militants" by local enforcement and federal agenciesŠ The most extreme political action,
supported by the FBI, was a carefully planned attack on a Black Panther apartment in Chicago with murder aforethought. This is an extremely important book - and a tale well told - for America to read it if it wants to
become what it says it has always been - the land of the free and the home of the brave."
 
-Former U.S. Attorney General, Ramsey Clark