ACLU of Texas Dallas Chapter meeting: Students' Rights

Hello everyone! Our next meetup is Tuesday, August 25, at 6:30 pm at the Highland Park Cafeteria in east Dallas (at Buckner and Garland).

In recognition of the commencement of the 2009-2010 school year, the topic is student rights. We will be featuring two speakers: Sol Villasana, an attorney and instructor at SMU who has represented students and their parents in several legal actions, and Tracy Wallace, a Dallas-area mom and activist who helped to spearhead the Citizens Against the Dallas Daytime Curfew group in an effort to defeat the city's daytime youth curfew ordinance.

If time permits, we will also an episode of the Freedom Files on the subject of students' rights. These half-hour documentaries feature firsthand accounts of real people who have taken on the powers that be, often at great risk to themselves, in order to preserve their precious constitutional rights. (The Freedom Files series is distributed nationwide to public television stations through the National Educational Telecommunications Association. You can check out air dates and times at http://aclu.tv....)

Please plan to arrive early -- between 6 and 6:30 -- and to pick up something to eat at the Highland Park Cafeteria (you can bring your tray into our meeting room) so that we compensate our hosts for the space they are providing to us. We will visit and socialize for a few minutes before starting our program at around 6:30 pm.

Hope to see you there!

- Anne