Brennan Center LIVE

What Will It Take to Keep Us (and Our Freedoms) Safe?

Livestreaming on September 23 from 12 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. (ET)

Twenty years after 9/11 and in the wake of the U.S. exit from Afghanistan, learn what’s lost, what’s won, and what threatens us now. As America comes to terms with new domestic political realities and a changed geo-political landscape, how do we strengthen and protect our civil liberties while fighting terrorism and maintaining a peaceful international order? What are the most pressing threats we face, both domestically and internationally, and how can the U.S. government deal with them without eroding our freedoms even more than the War on Terror already has?

This event is produced in partnership with the National Parks of New York Harbor Conservancy at Federal Hall and New York University's John Brademas Center.

Speakers:
Spencer Ackerman, Contributing Editor, Daily Beast, Publisher, Forever Wars newsletter on Substack; Author, Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump

Jane Harman, President Emerita, Wilson Center; Former Member of Congress (D-CA 36th District); Author, Insanity Defense: Why Our Failure to Confront Hard National Security Problems Makes Us Less Safe
Faiza Patel, Co-director, Brennan Center Liberty & National Security Program

Elizabeth Shackelford, Senior Fellow, Chicago Council on Global Affairs; Former Foreign Service Officer, Department of State; Author, The Dissent Channel: American Diplomacy in a Dishonest Age
Moderator: John Avlon, Senior Political Analyst, CNN

Brennan Center LIVE

The People’s Constitution

Livestreaming on September 21 from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. (ET)

Who wrote the Constitution? That’s obvious, we think: 55 men in Philadelphia in 1787. But much of the Constitution was actually written later, in a series of 27 amendments enacted over the course of two centuries. Join the Brennan Center’s Wilfred Codrington and John Kowal as they discuss their new book, The People’s Constitution: 200 Years, 27 Amendments, and the Promise of a More Perfect Union.

This event is produced in partnership with the National Parks of New York Harbor Conservancy at Federal Hall.

Speakers:
Wilfred Codrington, Fellow, Brennan Center; Co-author, The People’s Constitution: 200 Years, 27 Amendments, and the Promise of a More Perfect Union
John Kowal, Vice President of Programs, Brennan Center; Co-author, The People’s Constitution: 200 Years, 27 Amendments, and the Promise of a More Perfect Union

Moderator: Ari Berman, Senior Reporter, Mother Jones. Author, Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America

Brennan Center LIVE
Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America

Livestreaming on October 6 from 7 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. (ET)

Join Keisha N. Blain in conversation with Donna Brazile for the launch of Blain’s new book, Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America.

Hamer, who came to political activism in mid-life after a forced sterilization, was a relentless advocate for voting rights for Black Americans and against white supremacy. Award-winning historian and New York Times bestselling author Blain shines a light on Hamer’s life, ideas, and political strategies, situating her as a key political thinker of the civil rights movement, alongside Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, John Lewis, and Rosa Parks.

This event is produced in partnership with the National Civil Rights Museum.

Speakers:
Keisha N. Blain, Associate Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh, Author, Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America
Moderator: Donna Brazile, Veteran Political Strategist, Former Interim Chair, Democratic National Committee

Brennan Center LIVE
Midnight in Washington: A Conversation with Rep. Adam Schiff
Livestreaming on November 10 from 6 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. (ET)

The congressman who led the first impeachment of Donald Trump offers an inside account of American democracy in its darkest hour — and a warning that the forces of autocracy released by Trump remain as potent as ever. In his new book, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) argues that the Trump presidency has so weakened our institutions and compromised the Republican Party that the peril will last for years.

Speakers:

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-CA 28th District; Chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; Author, Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could
Moderator: Michael Waldman, President, Brennan Center for Justice

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