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Ignite DC #7

Shahid Buttar

How to Build a Movement to Restore the Constitution

I'd like to present an analysis of multiple crisis in the rule of law and civil rights, using hip-hop as an explanatory vehicle, and connecting those concerns to action opportunities for grassroots individuals.

About Shahid Buttar:

I'm a Muslim-American constitutional lawyer with expertise in the separation of powers and civil rights. After graduating from Stanford Law School in 2003, I moved to DC to and litigated impact cases advancing campaign finance reform and marriage equality for same-sex couples (as early as 2004) before joining the Bill of Rights Defense Committee as Executive Director in 2009. My public addresses so far in 2011 have included the U.S. House of Representatives in January; Stanford, Santa Clara, and UCLA law schools in February; the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School in March; and the University of Chicago, Depaul, Chicago-Kent, and John Marshall law schools in April. I'm also a hip-hop & electronica MC and founded the DC Guerrilla Poetry Insurgency (www.guerrillapoets.org). Here's an example of me mixing hip-hop and advocacy, outside the FBI on MLK Day: