SJC Features Trevor Aaronson At Brooklyn Voices Lecture Series

January 28, 2013

BROOKLYN, NY January 29, 2013 St. Josephs College, in partnership with Greenlight Bookstore, will welcome investigative reporter Trevor Aaronson as part of the spring Brooklyn Voices lecture series. This talk will take place in on Wednesday, February 6 at 6:30 p.m. in the Tuohy Hall Auditorium located at 245 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn.

A groundbreaking work of investigative journalism, The Terror Factory: Inside the FBIs Manufactured War on Terrorism, exposes how the FBI has, under the guise of engaging in counterterrorism since 9/11, built a network of more than 15,000 informants whose primary purpose is to infiltrate Muslim communities so that the Bureau can then claim it is winning the war on terror. The book also offers unprecedented detail into how the FBI has transformed from a reactive law enforcement agency to a proactive counterterrorism organization that traps hapless individuals in manufactured terrorist plots in order to justify the $3 billion it spends every year fighting terrorism.

Trevor Aaronson is co-founder of the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting and a senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism. He was a 2010-11 investigative reporting fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, where his reporting about FBI informants in U.S. Muslim communities resulted in a Mother Jones cover story that won multiple awards, including the John Jay College/H.F. Guggenheim excellence in Criminal Justice reporting Award, the Molly National Journalism Prize and the international Data Journalism Award.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please call Michael Banach, director of public affairs, at 718.940.5584.

ABOUT BROOKLYN VOICES
Created in collaboration with Greenlight Bookstore, and the Brooklyn Rail, the aim of the Brooklyn Voices series is to promote and enhance the creative vitality of our home neighborhoods of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill by providing local writers, artists, and intellectuals with a forum in which to discuss and present their works to our neighbors, patrons, and students. Through lectures, forums, performances, and public discussion, Brooklyn Voices seeks to make a meaningful contribution to the thriving intellectual culture of the neighborhood and ensure that our community remains a stimulating place in which to live, learn, and do business.