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The Gale VandeBerg Auditorium, Room 121 of The Pyle Center, located at 702 Langdon Street in downtown Madison. For location and parking information, please click here.

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A TEACH-IN ON 

 THE NATIONAL GUARD, WAR POWERS,

   & WHAT WISCONSIN CAN DO TO END ILLEGAL WARS

featuring:

BENSON SCOTCH

Senior legal counsel to the national Bring the Guard Home! It's the Law. campaign.

JOHN NICHOLS

Editor, The Capital Times; author, Against the Beast: An anti-imperialist reader

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Benson Scotch, the recently retired Executive Director of Vermont's ACLU, has spent his entire legal career working to enhance and improve our democracy.  At the ACLU Ben worked hard to highlight the importance to our democracy of protecting the individual rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights and the Vermont Constitution.  Prior to serving with the ACLU, Ben was Senior Staff Attorney to the Vermont Supreme Court for 15 years.

A Harvard Law School graduate, Ben began his career in public service by working for a summer at the Association of American Indian Affairs. He became a member of the legal board of the American Jewish Committee, a civil liberties organization in NYC.  During the 1970’s Ben was Assistant Attorney General in Vermont, with a focus on environmental enforcement, followed by years of service as Staff Counsel to Senator Patrick Leahy on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Today, Ben is senior counsel to the "Bring the Guard Home! It's the Law," a campaign of veterans, military families, and citizen advocates to democratize defense policy by ending unlawful deployments of the National Guard.

John Nichols, the author of seven books on politics and the media, writes about electoral politics and public policy for The Nation magazine. He is a contributing writer for The Progressive and In These Times and the associate editor of the Capital Times, the daily newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin. His articles have appeared in the The Guardian in London, New York Times, Chicago Tribune and dozens of other newspapers.

A specialist in constitutional issues relating to elections and presidential accountability, Nichols is the author of the book The Genius of Impeachment (The New Press), which has been featured on Bill Moyers Journal and hailed by Rolling Stones' Tim Dickinson as the best of the many books written on presidential accountability. Nichols is, as well, the author of a critically-acclaimed analysis of the Florida recount fight of 2000, Jews for Buchanan (The New Press) and a best-selling biography of Vice President Dick Cheney, Dick: The Man Who is President (The New Press), which has recently been published in French and Arabic. He edited Against the Beast: A Documentary History of American Opposition to Empire (Nation Books), of which historian Howard Zinn said: "At exactly the time when we need it most, John Nichols gives us a special gift--a collection of writings, speeches, poems, and songs from throughout American history--that reminds us that our revulsion to war and empire has a long and noble tradition in this country."

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