RJ Gaudet & Associates is pleased to invite you to a free teleconference on Martin Luther King, Jr., the War on Poverty, and economic, cultural, and social rights on Monday, March 26 from 2 pm ET to 3:30 pm ET.  Setting it apart from virtually every other nation, the United States has not signed the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights.  In some ways, the War on Poverty launched by Dr. King in the 1960s is still incomplete.

On March 26, 2012 from 2:00 pm ET to 3:30 pm ET, participants will have a rare opportunity to listen from a man who worked directly for Dr. King as part of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference – Revd. Harcourt Klinefelter.  Revd. Klinefelter was the associate director for public relations for Dr. King in the last few years of Dr. King’s life.  He was also a personal friend.  Revd. Klinefelter will share his experiences and show how the War on Poverty is still alive.

The conference will be moderated by Prof. Sarah Paoletti of the University of Pennsylvania law school.  Also on the panel will be Aryeh Neier, president of Open Society Foundations and former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch and former National Executive Director of the ACLU.  The distinguished panel also includes Catherine Albisa, Executive Director of the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative.

The panel discussion is sponsored by the American Bar Association SIL International Human Rights Committee which Robert J. Gaudet, Jr. c0-chaired from 2009-2011.  During Mr. Gaudet’s tenure as co-chair, the foundation was laid for this tele-conference on the War on Poverty and economic, social, and cultural rights, which is finally coming to fruition on March 26, 2012.

Non-lawyers are welcome to listen in to the tele-conference.  Please register in advance for this free tele-conference as a “Non-Sect[ion] Member” at https://apps.americanbar.org/aba_timssnet/meetings/tnt_meetings.cfm?action=long&primary_id=IC12034&webtextid=60186&Subsystem=MTG&related_prod_flag=0.

This tele-conference is a rare opportunity to learn from a panel of distinguished experts who will discuss economic, social, and cultural rights from the historical evolution of the American Civil Rights movement in the 1960s to the recent Arab Spring and present day Occupy Wall Street Movement gaining global momentum.

POSTSCRIPT: the text of Revd. Klinefelter’s speech during the March 26 presentation is now available online at this link.