Tuesday, August 16, 2005

we will be invincible...

i haven't written much about the specifics of my internship this summer. maybe part of me wants to retain some semblance of anonymity (no, that's not it -- anybody want my social security number?). nay, it's more out of respect for the confidentiality of the material my internship host deals with.

it can probably be pieced together from my posts, though, and now that i've finished, i'll just come right out and say that i was a proud, proud intern for the American Civil Liberties Union this summer. the big case that the ACLU in pennsylvania is working on right now is on intelligent design -- the ACLU is suing the dover, pa school district because it wants to include intelligent design as part of its science curriculum. i have way too many articles in my e-mail (thank you, google e-mail alerts!) to pick one to link here, but here's the press release from the ACLU PA website.

but the reason i'm writing about this now is because i want to post this picture. it's an AP photo from a december press conference in harrisburg about the dover case. the guy at the podium is vic walczak -- my summer boss and one of my heroes. the crazy guy in the background with the sign needs no introduction. here's the article from whence this photo came. enjoy!


2 Comments:

At 2:13 PM, Blogger perpetual slacker said...

Nice pic. Of course the guy with the poster needs no introduction. The text of his placard is the most sensical thing on this blog!

;-)

Just kidding, of course.

 
At 4:15 PM, Blogger Moon said...

i think vic should have turned and thank the man for embodying precisely what the ACLU stands for above all -- freedom of speech and conscience.

for me, the close-proximity protest of walczac and his apparent indifference to it illustrates the organization's agenda marvelously.

as opposed, say, to the bush administration's conduct toward people who won't toe the line with sufficient jingoistic fervor at their public events.

 

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