Upcoming NYCLU Events
A Concert to Benefit the Youth Programs of the NYCLU
NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
566 LaGuardia Place (Washington Square South)
NY, NY 10012
Monday, July 21 at 7:30 p.m.
Honorary Chairs:
Tony Kushner
and
Stephen Sondheim
Chair, Michael David, Barbara Whitman
Featuring:
Tony Award Nominees and Stars:
- Daphne Rubin-Vega (Rent, Les Mis)
- Daniel Sunjata (Take Me Out, Rescue Me)
- Kathleen Chalfant (Wit, Angels in America)
- John Gallagher (Spring Awakening)
- Cheyenne Jackson (Xanadu, All Shook Up)
- Celia Keenan-Bolger (Les Mis, Spelling Bee)
- Anthony Rapp (Rent)
- Gavin Creel (Godspell)
- Julia Murney (Wicked)
- Darius de Haas (Marie Christine)
- Todd Buonopane (Spelling Bee)
- Erich Bergen (Jersey Boys National Tour)
- Dana Steingold (Godspell, Spelling Bee)
- The Cast of Godspell
- The Cast of Jersey Boys
- And Founding Performer Liana Stampur with Clinton Curtis
Daphne Rubin-Vega at the 2007 performance
Check out last year's performance here
MORE EXCITING PERFORMERS TO BE ANNOUNCED
Last month, in the landmark District of Columbia vs. Heller case, the Supreme Court decided for the first time that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects an individual’s right to possess a firearm for private use.
Until Heller, the court held — and the ACLU agreed — that the Second Amendment protects a collective right that applies only to state-regulated militias.
Which interpretation is correct?
Join the NYCLU’s continuing Civil Liberties Discussion Series for an intriguing conversation between NYCLU Legal Director Arthur Eisenberg, Reason Magazine Associate Editor Damon Root and Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Walter Olson about the intersection of civil liberties and guns. Should individuals have the right to bear arms? If so, is this a fundamental right guaranteed under the Constitution?
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In January, school safety agents handcuffed Denis Rivera, a 5-year-old special education student, for throwing a temper tantrum in his kindergarten class. Thirteen-year-old Chelsea Fraser was arrested last year after she wrote the word "okay" on her school desk. In October, East Side Community High School principal Mark Federman was arrested after he tried to prevent a student from being humiliated by the police.
We need your help to end the over-policing of schools, and to support graduation not incarceration!
On Thursday, Aug. 14, students, parents, teachers and principals will rally at City Hall to call on the City Council to pass the Student Safety Act. This civil rights bill will provide a common sense solution to the policing excesses besieging our schools.
Tell the New York City Council that you support it! Join the New York Civil Liberties Union and members of the Student Safety Coalition on the steps of City Hall, 260 Broadway, and tell your representatives to pass the Student Safety Act.
11 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 14
260 Broadway, New York City
For more information, contact Angela Jones at ajones@nyclu.org or 212.607.3376.
The Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State speaking on "Piety and Politics: Why the Extreme Religious Right Is Still Dangerous"
Greece Baptist Church
1230 Long Pond Rd.
Greece, NY.
Sunday, Sept. 14 at 7:30 p.m.
The church is located just north of Ridge Road West (Route 104)
Free and open to the public
Americans United is supporting a lawsuit against the Town of Greece town board for its flagrant disregard of the First Amendment. Lynn will touch on the Greece suit and show how activities of extremists in the Religious Right endanger our fundamental American values contained in the constitution.
He has recently authored two books, Piety and Politics and First Freedom First.
For more information contact Robert Goldstein of Rochester Americans United at (585) 334-4557.
This event is being cosponsored by MCPEARL and the Genesee Valley Chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union.
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