Thursday, October 10th, 2002

The Ideas in Action group, in colloboration with Whig-Clio and StudentDiscourse.com, is pleased to announce the theme for this fall's first lecture:

'For the American People, Independent of the Special Interests'

Lecture - Dr. Omar Ali- Director of the Committee for a Unified Independent Party and Professor at Fordham University

Thursday, October 10th- 7:30pm
Whig Hall Senate Chamber (2nd Floor)

Professor Ali will speak about the role independents have to play in the 2004 presidential elections. His tour will give students and faculty the opportunity to dialogue on critical issues of political process and culture. In addition, StudentDiscourse.com will host an online Pro-Con debate regarding Dr. Omar Ali's speech with students at several other universities!

Omar Ali is one of the country's leading young scholars and spokespersons in the growing independent political movement. Currently a doctoral fellow in history at Columbia University, he is an adjunct faculty member of the history department at Fordham University and Director of Research at the Committee for a Unified Independent Party (CUIP), a national think-tank and strategy center for independent politics and election reform. An honors graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science, his research and analysis on new voting trends and realignments in American politics have been published in numerous articles and essays in the United States and in England. As a District Leader of the New York Independence Party, Ali helped to elect Mayor Michael Bloomberg with the party's 59,000 votes - Bloomberg's critical margin of victory. Ali was part of the team that organized one hundred voters, many of whom were under the age of thirty, to run for the Independence Party's State Committee. He has worked on ongoing voter registration drives that have brought tens of thousands of new voters into the political process and petitioned to place dozens of candidates on the ballot to run for local offices in New York.

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