Corliss Lamont Centenary Civil Liberties Forum

A debate entitled: “Must our Civil Liberties be Relinquished Under the Threat of Terrorism?”

Columbia University Law School
Jerome L. Greene Hall (JG101)
435 West 116th Street at Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027, USA
4 PM to 9 PM — Friday, April 5, 2002

These discussions were held in honor of Humanist, Patriot, and Defender of Civil Liberties, Corliss Lamont, as an observation of his Centenary. He was born March 28, 1902.

Professor Vincent A. Blasi, who occupies the endowed Corliss Lamont Civil Liberties Chair at Columbia University, delivered the keynote address. Invited speakers included the following individuals.†

† Affilations shown for informational/reference purposes only.

The schedule of events was as follows.

   4:00 PM to 6:00 PM - First Panel
   6:00 PM to 7:00 PM - Reception
   7:00 PM to 9:00 PM - Second Panel

This Centenary Program began with a screening of a documentary film entitled, Corliss Lamont: Renegade Patriot, created by Jonathan Heap, Corliss Lamont's grandson. Audio and video highlights from the film are available on this Web site.
  

Collateral materials:

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Adobe/Macromedia Flash Video:

Adobe/Macromedia Flash Video (FLV). Raw, unedited video of both Panel Sessions, in one-hour blocks. These four files, totaling approximately four hours run time, contain some significant technical flaws, but it was felt that the content was important, so they've been posted here. Clicking each of the links below will cause the Shock Wave Flash (SWF) player to appear in a JavaScript pop-up window. Flash Video (FLV) file download will commence as soon as the window appears, but the Play button must be clicked before playback will actually begin. A high-speed connection (cable modem, xDSL, T1/E1, etc.) is strongly recommended. If you're on a lower speed connection (dial-up, ISDN, etc.), it's suggested that you wait until the download has completed before clicking the Play button. A progress bar will indicate FLV file download progress. Although the audio in these Flash Video files is ordinary MPEG Layer III, the video is encoded using the On2 VP6 codec, so you'll need a recent version of the Adobe/Macromedia Flash Player in order to successfully play these files. If you should need to update your Adobe Flash or Shockwave players, the latest versions can be downloaded for free using the links below.
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Also available:

Sony PSP Video.  Sony PSP (PlayStation Portable) compatible files, containing the same footage as the Flash Video files above, encoded with 768 kbps MPEG-4 Part 10 H.264 AVC video and 128 kbps MPEG-4 AAC-LC audio. Download these files to your local system by right-clicking ("Save Target As..." or "Save Link As...") on the links below and then move or copy them into the \MP_ROOT\101ANV01 directory (folder) on your PSP's Memory Stick Duo or Memory Stick PRO Duo flash memory card. A minimum 512 MB Memory Stick is required to hold any one of these four files. A 2 GB or larger Memory Stick can hold all four of these files. Your PSP must be running firmware (system software) Version 2.01 or higher in order to play these AVC/AAC-encoded files. North American PSP users can download free PSP firmware updates using this link.

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For PSP users, here are four Thumbnail (.THM) files which can also be moved/copied into the \MP_ROOT\101ANV01 directory (folder) on your Memory Stick Duo or Memory Stick PRO Duo flash memory card along with the above .MP4 files. Right-click and "Save Target As..." or "Save Link As..." to download. When these .THM files are present on the Memory Stick media along with the associated .MP4 files, your PSP's Video menu will display these images rather than the generic PSP movie icon.

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Important note:

In addition to the Sony PSP, these four .MP4 files will also play in Version 7 and later of the free Apple QuickTime Player program (as well as the U.S. $29.99 QuickTime Player Pro program) on both Mac OS X and Windows computer systems.
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These four .MP4 files will also play in the free VideoLAN VLC media player program, which is available for several flavors of Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. VLC media player is an excellent all-around multimedia player program and includes its own set of codecs that will not interfere with other codecs already installed on the system. A highly recommended application.
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These four .MP4 files will also play on Windows systems in Microsoft's free Windows Media Player (WMP) program provided that the proper DirectShow-compatible MPEG-4 file reader, AVC video decoder codec, and AAC audio decoder codec filters are installed on the system. Most Windows systems do not have such filters installed, however.
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