Wendell Goddard: Current Issues in Free Speech
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This lecture will examine some of the major issues informing the debate over free speech. We will consider broad principles underlying this debate and look at recent events that have sharpened it: the administration's attacks on the media, universities, and most recently, on Senator Mark Kelly for reminding troops that they have a right to disobey illegal orders.
We will encourage active input by all participants to express their views in the Q&A discussion at the end.
About the Speaker
Wendell Goddard has lectured on current issues in public policy for more than a decade. He is a graduate of Yale University and graduated from Berkeley Law with a J.D. He was a law clerk for United States District Judge Whitman Knapp in New York and worked as a litigator in the Bay Area for 45 years. Wendell believes that civic engagement is essential to the preservation of democracy.
This program is in-person only. If you have symptoms of illness (coughing, fever, etc.), we ask that you either stay home or wear a mask.
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Lafayette Public Library
Don Tatzin Auditorium
3491 Mt. Diablo Boulevard
Lafayette, CA 94549
United States
Wendell Goddard
Lecturer on Current Public Policy Issues
Introduction by Dr. Michael Baker
M.D., Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy (ret)
6 p.m. doors open & check-in
6:30–7:20 p.m. lecture
7:20–8 p.m. Q&A
(all times Pacific Time)
COST
In-person:
$10 for members (in advance purchase only; no discounts at the door)
$15 nonmembers
Free for high school and JC students with I.D.
