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UM professor, Clem Work discusses lack of free speech during WWI at City Club Missoula. March Event will be on Electric Power Distribution

The dark days of World War I when Montanans went to prison for speaking their thoughts about their government should resonate for us today, the author of a new book on political dissent, sedition and free speech in Montana and the West told an audience at City Club Missoula on Friday.

University of Montana journalism professor Clem Work was working on research for “Darkest Before Dawn: Sedition and Free Speech in the American West” before and after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. After Sept. 11, 2001, Work began to see parallels between that time and the World War I years – so much so that sometimes the hair stood up on the back of his neck, he said.

The sloganizing, demonization of the enemy, the public rhetoric and general atmosphere of fear and hysteria after the attacks recalled the days in Montana that incited a mob in Lewistown to burn German textbooks in a bonfire on Main Street.

By GINNY MERRIAM of the Missoulian

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/articles/2006/02/18/news/local/news05.txt

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City Club Missoula March Event

Friday, March 17, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Florence Building, Governor’s Room, 111 N. Higgins, Lunch $15, $10 for members, or coffee $5.

Electric Power Distribution – Join a discussion about current issues surrounding electric power distribution in Montana including costs for ratepayers. Participants are: Doug Mood, Public Service Commission, and panelists: Gary Thompson, Bonneville Power Administration; Alec Hanson, MPPI; Dave Gates, NorthWestern Energy and Tom Power, UM Economics Dept. Chair.

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