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The ACLU-IN presents Naomi Wolf, one of the most strenuous and articulate critics of the current Administration’s treatment of human and civil rights.

When: Thursday October 25 5:00 - 8:00 PM
Where: Reception in the atrium of the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis, 530 West New York Street, from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. Naomi Wolf will present in the Moot Courtroom from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., with book signing immediately following.  The cost for attendance is $10, and no reservations are required. 

The ACLU of Indiana will host a reception, entitled “In Defense of Our America: A Call to Action,” to kick off the annual Bill of Rights campaign on October 25th, 5-8 p.m. The guest speaker will be Naomi Wolf, best-selling author and feminist. Her latest book, The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot, will be released in September 2007.    

The annual Student Conference will take place the following day, Friday, October 26th, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. View the invitation, and stay tuned for location details for both the reception and conference.  

Who, you might ask, is Naomi Wolf?

Naomi Wolf was born in San Francisco in 1962. She was an undergraduate at Yale University and did her graduate work at New College, Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.

Her essays have appeared in various publications including: The New Republic, Wall Street Journal, Glamour, Ms., Esquire, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. She also speaks widely to groups across the country.

The Beauty Myth, her first book, was an international bestseller. She followed that with Fire With Fire: The New Female Power and How It Will Change The 21st Century, and Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood. Misconceptions is a powerful and passionate critique of pregnancy and birth in America. In The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom from My Father on How to Live, Love and See, Wolf shared the enduring wisdom of her father, Leonard Wolf, a poet and teacher who believes that every person is an artist in their own unique way.

Wolf is co-founder of The Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership, an organization devoted to training young women in ethical leadership for the 21st century. The institute teaches professional development in the arts and media, politics and law, business and entrepreneurship as well as ethical decision making.

About her most recent book, The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot, her website says:

In a stunning indictment of the Bush administration and Congress, best-selling author Naomi Wolf lays out her case for saving American democracy. In authoritative research and documentation Wolf explains how events of the last six years parallel steps taken in the early years of the 20th century’s worst dictatorships such as Germany, Russia, China, and Chile.

The book cuts across political parties and ideologies and speaks directly to those among us who are concerned about the ever-tightening noose being placed around our liberties.

In this timely call to arms, Naomi Wolf compels us to face the way our free America is under assault. She warns us–with the straight-to-fellow-citizens urgency of one of Thomas Paine’s revolutionary pamphlets–that we have little time to lose if our children are to live in real freedom.

“Recent history has profound lessons for us in the U.S. today about how fascist, totalitarian, and other repressive leaders seize and maintain power, especially in what were once democracies. The secret is that these leaders all tend to take very similar, parallel steps. The Founders of this nation were so deeply familiar with tyranny and the habits and practices of tyrants that they set up our checks and balances precisely out of fear of what is unfolding today. We are seeing these same kinds of tactics now closing down freedoms in America, turning our nation into something that in the near future could be quite other than the open society in which we grew up and learned to love liberty,” states Wolf.

Wolf is taking her message directly to the American people in the most accessible form and as part of a large national campaign to reach out to ordinary Americans about the dangers we face today. This includes a lecture and speaking tour, and being part of the nascent American Freedom Campaign, a grassroots efforts to ensure that presidential candidates pledge to uphold the constitution and protect our liberties from further erosion.

The End of America will shock, enrage, and motivate–spurring us to act, as the Founders would have counted on us to do in a time such as this, as rebels and patriots–to save our liberty and defend our nation.

If Wolf’s talk sounds interesting, contrast it with lawyer Robert Turner’s talk November 5, which will argue that people like Naomi Wolf are endangering America and its Constitution by trying to rein the power of the President to conduct foreign policy and gather intelligence as he sees fit.

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