Building Bridges:

Your Community & Labor Report – National Edition

Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash

Presents

The President's Powers to Arrest and Detain In Wartime

&

The Patriot Act and Library Surveillance

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The President's Powers to Arrest and Detain In Wartime .

Donna Newman, counsel to Jose Padilla, discusses the challenges to the Bush Administration's most sweeping claims of national power following the

September 11th tragedy --the power to declare an American citizen seized on American soil as an "enemy combatant", detain her or him indefinitely without trial, and hold him without a chance to challenge the basis of his imprisonment in any court. The Padilla case which will be heard this spring by the Court presents the most direct confrontation between judicial responsibility and executive power in several generations.

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The Patriot Act and Library Surveillance

with

Maurice J. Freedman,

Director of the Westchester Library Association and Former President,

American Library Association and

Udi Ofer – Project Director, New York City Liberties Union

After 911 the government has used the excuse of domestic terrorism to institute surveillance of your Library and other personal records without any meaningful judicial review. This in conjunction with other infringements of civil liberties and civil rights has caused numerous states, cities and towns to

pass resolutions in defense of the Bill of Rights.

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