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Cafe Montmartre, 127 E. Mifflin Street, Madison, Wisconsin.

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Immediately following the April 4th March and Rally, please join Wisconsin: Bring the Guard Home! at Cafe Montmartre for a chance to meet Benson Scotch and other national and local leaders of this exciting campaign!

Benson Scotch is visiting Wisconsin from his home state of Vermont. He is the recently retired Executive Director of Vermont's ACLU, and has spent his entire legal career working to enhance and improve our democracy.  At the ACLU Ben worked hard to highlight the importance to our democracy of protecting the individual rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights and the Vermont Constitution.  Prior to serving with the ACLU, Ben was Senior Staff Attorney to the Vermont Supreme Court for 15 years.

A Harvard Law School graduate, Ben began his career in public service by working for a summer at the Association of American Indian Affairs. He became a member of the legal board of the American Jewish Committee, a civil liberties organization in NYC.  During the 1970’s Ben was Assistant Attorney General in Vermont, with a focus on environmental enforcement, followed by years of service as Staff Counsel to Senator Patrick Leahy on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Today, Ben is senior counsel to the "Bring the Guard Home! It's the Law," a campaign of veterans, military families, and citizen advocates to democratize defense policy by ending unlawful deployments of the National Guard.

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Open to all. No cover; pass the hat. See you there and then!

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