Subject: Invitation to Southern Center for Human Rights Dinner, Nov. 13, 2014
From: David Cole <[email-masked]>
To: Law Faculty and Visitors <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 23:49:42 +0000

Dear Colleagues:  We once again invite our colleagues to support one of the nation's leading human rights and criminal justice organizations, the Southern Center for Human Rights, by attending its annual Washington dinner, this year on Nov. 13, 2014.  The SCHR, as many of you know, was founded by Steve Bright, who has taught here as a visitor in the past, and is probably responsible for more young lawyers taking on the cause of fighting capital punishment than any other living lawyer.  The SCHR operates on a shoestring, and fights for justice throughout the South in many of the most inhospitable courts and on behalf of many of the neediest clients.  It focuses on the death penalty, racial bias, indigent defense, and prison conditions.  We urge you to support the SCHR, by attending this year's dinner, or by donating.  The flyer for the dinner is attached, and you can buy tickets or donate by clicking on the link in the flyer.  This year's honorees are Debo Adegbile, the NAACP LDF legal director whose nomination for head of the Civil Rights Division was defeated because LDF supported a successful habeas petition on behalf of Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Congressman John Lewis, who needs no introduction.

Hope to see you there.  Let us know if you want to sit at a Georgetown table.

Thanks, David Cole, John Copacino, Abee Smith, Paul Butler, Peter Edelman, Allegra McLeod