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Civil Liberties and the Media: Third Annual Civil Liberties Symposium
 
June 19-20, 2008, College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls
 
The Minidoka Internment National Monument, the Friends of Minidoka, and the College of Southern Idaho presented a symposium on Civil Liberties and the Media, June 19-20, 2008, on the campus of the College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls.
 
Speakers:
  • Geoffrey Stone, former Dean of the Law School at the University of Chicago and author of: Perilous Times, Free Speech in Wartime.
     
  • Jim Jones, a justice of the Idaho Supreme Court and former Idaho Attorney General.
     
  • Don Burnett, Dean of the College of Law, University of Idaho.
     
  • Mark Trahant, editorial page editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
     
  • Caroline Aoyagi-Stom, executive editor, The Pacific Citizen, the journal of the Japanese American Citizens League
     
  • Diana Owen, Professor of Political Science, Georgetown University and editor of New Media and American Politics.
     
  • Tom Ikeda, executive director, Densho, a Japanese American legacy project preserving Japanese American history and promoting education.
     
  • Dan Prinzing, educational director, the Idaho Human Rights Education Center.
     
  • Mark Johnson, President, the Gallatin Group, a governmental relations and public affairs firm.
     
  • James G. Wright, Editor, The Twin Falls Times-News.
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