The lead attorney for National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden will be featured in a Zoom discussion offered by Praxis Peace Institute in Sonoma this week.
The event, “Civil Rights, Whistleblowers and What Edward Snowden is Doing Today,” will be offered from 1 to 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20and highlight the work of Ben Wizner, a lawyer, writer and civil liberties advocate with American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in New York City.
Tickets for the event, which cost $15 for Praxis members and $20 for nonmembers, can be purchased at praxispeace.org.
Part of the discussion will focus on Snowden, a former NSA intelligence contractor and whistleblower born in North Carolina who leaked classified documents revealing the existence of global surveillance programs. He became a naturalized Russian citizen in 2022.
A 30-minute Q&A session will also be included.
Wizner is the director of the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, which works to expand the First Amendment freedoms of expression, association and inquiry as well as to ensure that civil liberties are enhanced rather than compromised by new developments in science and technology.
For more than two decades, Wizner has litigated cases at the ALCU involving the right to protest, government surveillance practices, freedom of expression online, airport security policies, targeted killing and torture.
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