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Sobel worked at the ACLU for 20 years and is now in private practice, continuing to represent community activists, students and teachers in Southern California in First Amendment cases. She serves on the executive board of the National Lawyers Guild in Los Angeles.
She was last on Subversity last year talking about the D2K protests at the Staples Center, where she was hit by a police projectile between her eyes while acting as a legal observer.
Sobel was also among the panel of ACLU attorneys who represented me in my
successful lawsuit against the CIA for spying on me. The CIA promised not
to spy on me again (Don't believe it! More on that on the air) and
settled the case out of court for $46,000. For more on that case, see my
L.A. Times op ed:
A CIA target at
home. See also my
lead attorney
Kate Martin's letter to the Washington Post about this case: Domestic CIA
Snooping. Martin spoke about this case on another Subversity show:
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To chat with Sobel, you can call (949) 824-5824 during the show. You can also send queries to subversity@kuci.org.
Resources
Civil liberties activisist have organized nationally; see: http://www.indefenseoffreedom.org/, where one can sign an online petition. ACLU's "Safe and Free in Times of Crisis" web site: http://www.aclu.org/safeandfree/ National Lawyers Guild: http://www.nlg.org/ EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center): http://www.epic.org/ Center for Democracy & Technology: http://www.cdt.org/security/010911response.shtml Secrecy News (with links in September 25, 2001 issue to Congressional testimony by Martin etc. on terrorism legislation): http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/secrecy/2001/09/index.html On Saturday, i'll be participating at a teach-in and commemoration of activism and community culture at the James West Center at UCLA (9:30am - 4:30 pm) in connection with the release of "Asian Americans: The Movement and the Moment" (UCLA Asian American Studies Press). For more information, see: http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~dtsang/awareup.htm. Thanx for listening. dan Daniel C. Tsang Host, Subversity, Fridays, 5-6 p.m. KUCI, 88.9 FM and Web-cast live via http://kuci.org Subversity: http://go.fast.to/sv; E-mail: subversity@kuci.org Daniel Tsang, KUCI, PO Box 4362, Irvine CA 92616 UCI Tel: (949) 824-4978; UCI Fax: (949) 824-2700 UCI Office: 380 Main Library Member, National Writers Union (http://www.nwu.org) AWARE: http://go.fast.to/aware WWW News Resource Page: http://go.fast.to/news Personal home page: http://go.fast.to/ar