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McCarthy Era Lessons for Bush's America


Robert Meeropol is the sone of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were executed for spying in 1953. Today, this attorney, activist, and author is Executive Director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children, an organization he founded in 1990 to aid children of today's activists. In this lecture, Meeropol will discuss the work his foundation as background to the dangers of the current political climiate, which he believes parallels the politics of the 1950's.

This presentation by the Department of Sociology is co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science and the Law and Society Program at UCSB.

Date: Monday, November 20, 2006
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Location: Sociology Conference Room, Ellison 2824, UCSB
Fee: Free