{news} Youth Movements and the War on Drugs--Thursday, April 30, 2009

[Clifford Thornton]

Youth Movements and the War on Drugs
Master's Tea with Kris Krane
      Host: 2009 Drug Policy Month @ Yale<http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=66486822708> 
      Type: Education<http://www.facebook.com/s.php?k=400000010&c1=3> - Lecture<http://www.facebook.com/s.php?k=400000010&c1=3&c2=28> 
      Network: Global 
      Date: Thursday, April 30, 2009 
      Time: 4:00pm - 6:00pm 
      Location: Branford Master's House  
      Street: 74 High Street.  
      City/Town: New Haven, CT 
     
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      Phone: 818399525 
      Email:  michael.linares at yale.edu<mailto:michael.linares at yale.edu> 
     


     



Description
Branford Master's Tea with Kris Krane, director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy, one of the nation's largest grassroots political organizations. Mr. Krane will be speaking on the Drug War and what it can teach us about youth movements and cultural change. 

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Kris Krane is the executive director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), the leading organization working to mobilize students to change punitive drug policies, particularly those that negatively impact young people and students. Mr. Krane took over as SSDP's executive director in January 2006, and has placed an emphasis on encouraging SSDP chapters to work on policy change at the campus level. During his tenure at SSDP, the organization successfully convinced members of Congress to scale back the HEA Aid Elimination Penalty, the law that automatically denies federal financial aid to students with drug convictions, removing the penalty's retroactivity. The organization also filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the constitutionality of the penalty.

http://ssdp.org<http://ssdp.org/>







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