CPU Newsletter

November 9, 2005

CPU EVENTS: Jason Furman, Director of Economic Policy, Kerry-Edwards 2004 (Thursday, 11/10, 8PM)

CPU EVENTS/ANNOUNCEMENTS:

1. *PLEASE NOTE ROOM CHANGE: Jason Furman, Director of Economic
Policy, Kerry-Edwards 2004 (Thursday, 11/10, 8PM, Satow Room)

OTHER EVENTS:

2. Amnesty International's Investigate Torture (IT) Campaign Event
(TONIGHT, 8PM, 310 Fayerweather)

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1. The CPU Presents: Jason Furman, Director for Economic Policy,
Kerry-Edwards 2004

Date: Thursday, 11/10
Time: 8:00PM
CHANGED Location: Satow Room, Alfred Lerner Hall

Description: Jason Furman is a Visiting Scholar at New York
University's Wagner School and a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Furman works on a wide
range of economic issues, including Social Security, tax reform,
and budgetary issues.

Previously, Furman served as Special Assistant to the President for
Economic Policy in the Clinton Administration. Furman has been a
visiting lecturer at Columbia and Yale Universities. In addition,
he served as a Staff Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers,
Senior Economic Adviser to the Chief Economist of the World Bank,
and Director of Economic Policy for the Kerry-Edwards campaign. He
received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.

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OTHER EVENTS:

2. CU AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: INVESTIGATE TORTURE (IT) CAMPAIGN

Date: TONIGHT, November 9th
Time: 8 PM
Location: 310 Fayerweather

Featuring:

-Jumana Musa, Advocacy Director for Domestic Human Rights and
International Justice
-Sarah Havens, Attorney for Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo

Jumana Musa is a human rights attorney and activist. She is
currently the Advocacy Director for Domestic Human Rights and
International Justice at Amnesty International, where she addresses
the domestic and international impact of the Bush administration's
"war on terror" on human rights. She has also served as Amnesty
International's legal observer at military commission proceedings
at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Formerly, she
worked as a policy attorney for the National Network to End
Domestic Violence and handled international relations and
immigration issues as a fellow in the office of Congressman Jesse
L. Jackson, Jr. Ms. Musa holds a BA in International Relations
from Brown University and a JD from Georgetown University Law
Center.

Sarah Havens is an attorney with Allen & Overy LLP, a global law
firm representing 11 Yemenis detained at Guantanamo Bay. In the
course of representing these detainees, she has made numerous trips
to Guantanamo and to Yemen. Prior to joining Allen & Overy, Sarah
worked at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the
American University in Cairo, both in Cairo, Egypt. Sarah holds a
law degree from Georgetown and a bachelors in International
Relations (with a focus in Arab Studies) from Brown University.

Free pizza will be served.

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