For Immediate Release

	April 26, 2006 'ELECTION PROTECTION' IN DANGER NBA Holds Briefing on Post-Katrina Issues of Election Protection & Affiliate Mobilization The "2006 Election Protection Leadership Briefing & Affiliate Mobilization" will include the following legal experts: Barbara R. Arnwine is the Executive Director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. She has become renowned for her work on passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1991; and in 2001, Ms. Arnwine represented African descendants from the Americas in helping draft provisions of the program for action of the UN World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance in Durban, South Africa. In addition, Ms. Arnwine has been a prominent voice for voting rights during the 2000 and 2004 U.S. Presidential Elections. Jonah H. Goldman is a staff attorney in the Lawyers' Committee's Voting Rights Project. In addition to his active role in the Project's litigation docket, Jonah is responsible for the Project's leadership in the Election Protection Coalition and for developing policy and strategy to reform the administration of elections at the federal, state and local level. Before joining the Lawyers' Committee, Jonah served as the Public Policy Fellow for the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) in Washington, D.C where he was responsible for the JCPA's legislative advocacy on a number of social justice issues including hunger relief, the extension of federal hate crimes legislation, and opposing the expansion of Charitable Choice. Tanya Clay is the Public Policy Director for People For the American Way and People For the American Way Foundation in Washington, DC. People for the American Way is an energetic advocate for the values and institutions that sustain a diverse democratic society. The organization was founded in 1981 by Norman Lear, Barbara Jordan, Father Theodore Hesburgh, and Andrew Heiskell. WHAT: "2006 Election Protection Leadership Briefing & Affiliate Mobilization" WHO: National Bar Association WHEN: Tomorrow, April 27, 2006 at 4:00 p.m. WHERE: In the Lansdowne Room of The Memphis Peabody, 149 Union Avenue, 38103