Go & Do Likewise Project Dinner

Please join us for a good cause on Saturday, September 21st, 2024 at 7:00 pm to talk about Go & Do Likewise Project.

Dinner will be served!

Please RSVP to reserve your seat, as space is limited!

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About the Keynote Speaker:

James C. Harrington

Founder and Director Emeritus Texas Civil Rights Project

Jim Harrington grew up in Lansing, Michigan, and received his law degree in 1973 from the University of Detroit. He also has a Master's in philosophy. After law school, Mr. Harrington worked ten years as Director of the South Texas Project in the Rio Grande Valley, along the Mexican border. His legal work included the rights of farm laborers and poor people in Valley, police brutality, discrimination. In 1983, Mr. Harrington became Legal Director of the Texas Civil Liberties Union in Austin. There, he also helped organize the evening East Austin pro bono clinic for low-income people. In 1990, Mr. Harrington founded the Texas Civil Rights Project, a non-profit foundation that promotes social, racial, and economic justice and civil liberty for low income and poor persons. By the time he retired in March 2016, the Project had grown to a staff of 40 with offices in six Texas locations. Mr. Harrington has handled a wide array of civil rights cases, some precedent-setting, involving grand jury discrimination, voting rights, free speech and assembly, privacy, racial and ethnic discrimination, and the rights of persons with disabilities. Mr. Harrington was an adjunct professor at University of Texas Law School for 27 years and continues to teach undergraduate writing courses in civil liberties. For three summers, he taught a civil society course to Iraqi college students. He volunteered nearly ten years as a Saturday coordinator for Austin's ecumenical Micah 6 food pantry. In 2014, he spent a week in McAllen, helping provide assistance to women and unaccompanied minors, streaming into the country. He now is the volunteer full-time Hispanic ministry coordinator at St. James Episcopal Church in Austin. Mr. Harrington has served on human rights delegations to Central and South America and Israel and Palestinian territories. He has visited Turkey twice as part of interfaith and judicial delegations and revisited Turkey a number of times while writing his two books on events in Turkey. Mr. Harrington is author of Wrestling with Free Speech, Religious Freedom, and Democracy in Turkey: The Political Trials and Times of Fethullah Gülen and also The Texas Bill of Rights: A Commentary and Litigation Manual, He has traveled nationally and internationally, lecturing on his books or discussing civil society. In May 2015, he published a 75-page human rights report, Turkey: Democracy in Peril. His most recent book, which he co-authored, is Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern: A Once and Future Meeting of Rumi, Meister Eckhart, and Moses de León in Medieval Venice.

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