HOMEFRONT: THE WAR ON TERRORISM

Hosted by Dr. Jerry Starr

Guest Panelists:

Rebecca Denova is Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She also has served on the faculties of Bethany College, Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Boston University. Her dissertation research was supported by an Israel Heritage Room Scholarship and was published by Sheffield Academic Press. Dr. Denova is a frequent lecturer for national and local organizations on issues of world religion, tolerance and persecution.

Barb Feige is Director of the Pittsburgh chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Previously, she was HIV/AIDS Program Coordinator for the Jewish Healthcare Foundation of Pittsburgh and Community Campaigns Coordinator for the United Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh. This year, the Pittsburgh ACLU joined with the Thomas Merton Center and Pittsburgh Bill of Rights Defense Committee to promote passage by Pittsburgh City Council of a resolution calling for reform of the USA PATRIOT Act.

William W. Keller is Wesley W. Posvar Chair and Director of the Ridgeway Center for International Security Studies of the University of Pittsburgh. He is former Executive Director of the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1987-1995, Dr. Keller was Project Director for the U.S. Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. The author of four books and numerous articles and reports, he is an expert on terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, and internal security.

John T. Parry is Assistant Professor in the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Parry's scholarly work addresses the legal structures that restrain or permit the exercise of state power on individuals. His recent writings focus on the use of torture in interrogations. His publications on constitutional and criminal law have appeared in the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, the Virginia Journal of International Law, and the University of Pittsburgh Law Review.

Saleh Waziruddin was born to Indian and Pakistani parents and raised in Saudi Arabia. A research chemical engineer by training, Wazirudden is Outreach Committee President of the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh and Board Co-President of the Thomas Merton Center. He helped establish a volunteer Lawyer System within the Muslim community for men facing "special registration." His "Free Getu" Coalition freed Pittsburgh's third post-9/11 traveler arrested as a terrorist without proper evidence.