The Rights of the People: How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties March 16, 2012

How have our rights to privacy and justice been undermined? What exactly have we lost? Pulitzer Prize-winner David K. Shipler takes an impassioned, incisive look at the violations of civil liberties in the United States that have accelerated over the past decade—and their direct impact on our lives when he discusses his book at The Cooper Union –The Rose Auditorium on Friday, March 16 at 6:30 PM.

Former New York Times correspondent, David K Shipler won the Pulitzer Prize for Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land. He also wrote the book The Working Poor: Invisible in America.

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