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Show C-2 The Park Record Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, March 31-April 3, 2018 ‘Civil rights in an Uncivil Time’ ACLU director will speak in Park City April 3 P a c SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record Although the American Civil Liberties Union is known for playing defense for many of the United State’s groundbreaking cases, whether it was the Scopes Trial that gave teachers the right to teach evolution in a public science classroom, to Gideon v. Wainwright, which guaranteed the right to a court-appointed attorney, the ACLU also likes to play offense on such issues as criminal justice reform, said Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the group. “What is the remarkable about this period is the American public is paying much closer attention to issues...” Anthony D. Romero, ACLU executive director “This one of the few places where I see an affirmative opportunity to move the needle forward,” Romero said. “You can build bipartisan consensus, because both liberals and conservatives agree that we incarcerate too many people for too long, and that the people who’ve done the crime and have done the time are given a chance to contribute to society again.” This is one of the issues Romero will address when the Park City Institute presents him on Tuesday, April 3, at the Eccles Center for the Performing Arts. “Of all the issues we work on, this is probably the place of greatest hope for me,” he said. “I think we’re making enormous progress on issues around sentencing reform, better prisons, bail reform and the terms of incarcerations.” Step out of your bindings and into some savings. COURTESY OF THE ACLU Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the ACLU, will present “Civil Liberties in an Uncivil Time” on Tuesday, April 3, at the Eccles Center for the Performing Arts. The event is presented by Park City Institute. Romero’s presentation, titled “Civil Rights in an Uncivil Time,” will also address the challenges the nonprofit has faced while carrying out its mission in the present day, which is “To defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.” “This last year has been one of the most challenging for the organization, but it’s also been one of the most important,” Romero said. “It’s especially important for us now ... to fight the battles of the moment and put up a fierce resistance to the anti-civil liberties and civil rights policies of the Trump Administration.” Some of those battles include the administration’s travel ban from majority-Muslim countries, the transgender military ban, which prevents transgendered individuals from serving in the miltary, the efforts to strip voters of their voting rights and denying due process rights for immigrants, Romero said. “With so many of our issues on the front burner on high boil, it makes the work even more important than ever before,” he said. With so many cases on the fire, the trick is not to get discouraged when one is lost. “We’re in the long game,” said Romero, citing Korematsu v. United States, which questioned the constitutionality of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s order to intern Japanese-Americans during World War II. “The Korematsu case was brought by the ACLU of California in 1941,” Romero said. “We lost that case in the Supreme Court in 1944, even though we were right, and we had to work for more than 40 years to gain reparations for the Japanese-American internees.” Please see Romero, C-3 BUNDLE UP (without spending a bundle) Now through April 8, 2018, all outerwear and select accessories are on sale. Great prices on brands including Spyder, Karbon, Obermeyer and Descente. DEER VALLEY ® SIGNATURES END OF SEASON SALE 625 Main Street • Snow Park Lodge 435-649-1000 • Silver Lake Village deervalley.com/shopping NextGen DV End of Season SALE Snow Park Lodge (Lower Level) 435-615-2535 deervalley.com/shopping |