July

Wednesday, July 6: 10:00 a.m. Rutherford Institute Summer Speaker Series: Charlottesville Police Chief Tim Longo on Fundamentals of the Bill of Rights: First and Fourth Amendment Rights. At the Institute, 1440 Sachem Place, Charlottesville. Call for reservation 978 3888. Further information on the website, www.rutherford.org.

Monday, July 11: 9:30 a.m. Rutherford Institute Summer Speaker Series: Constitutional attorney James Knicely Tobey v. Napolitano: Security at Any Cost. At the Institute, 1440 Sachem Place, Charlottesville. Call for reservation 978 3888. Further information on the website, www.rutherford.org.

Monday, July 11: 1:00 p.m. Rutherford Institute Summer Speaker Series: Dr. Jim Tucker, expert in past-life memories on Life Before Life: Does Consciousness Survive Death?. At the Institute, 1440 Sachem Place, Charlottesville. Call for reservation 978 3888. Further information on the website, www.rutherford.org.

Monday, July 11: 7:30 p.m. Ridge Schuyler, formerly Tom Perriello's director for the Charlottesville congressional office, will analyze the 2010 election at the NAACP meeting in the Media Center at the J.P. Burley Middle School.

Tuesday, July 12: 1:00 p.m. Rutherford Institute Summer Speaker Series: Josh Wheeler of the TJ Center on Snyder v. Phelps: The First Amendment and Hateful Speech. At the Institute, 1440 Sachem Place, Charlottesville. Call for reservation 978 3888. Further information on the website, www.rutherford.org.

Saturday, July 16: 9"30 a.m. Monthly Democratic Breakfast: Clerk of Court Forum July's Democratic breakfast will feature a candidate forum of the three candidates running for the Democratic nomination for Clerk of Court: Llezelle Dugger, Paul Garrett and Pam Melampy. Int the McIntire Room of the Central Library.

Monday, July 18: 1:00 p.m. Rutherford Institute Summer Speaker Series: Rob Boston of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State on Whither the Culture War? Trends in Church-State Separation and the Future of Religious Freedom in America. At the Institute, 1440 Sachem Place, Charlottesville. Call for reservation 978 3888. Further information on the website, www.rutherford.org.

Wednesday, July 20: 1:00 p.m. Rutherford Institute Summer Speaker Series: David Swanson, author of War is a Lie on War is a Lie: Challenging the Military Empire. At the Institute, 1440 Sachem Place, Charlottesville. Call for reservation 978 3888. Further information on the website, www.rutherford.org.

Wednesday, July 20: 7 to 9 p.m. The Daily Progress and Charlottesville Tomorrow are co-hosting a city council candidate forum for candidates running in the Democratic primary, at the Burley Middle School auditorium.

Thursday, July 21: 1:00 p.m. Rutherford Institute Summer Speaker Series: Nat Hentoff (via Telephone) Is This America?. At the Institute, 1440 Sachem Place, Charlottesville. Call for reservation 978 3888. Further information on the website, www.rutherford.org.

Monday, July 25: 9:30 a.m. Rutherford Institute Summer Speaker Series: Randall Shaheen, attorney with Arnold & Porteron The Role of Religion in Public Life. At the Institute, 1440 Sachem Place, Charlottesville. Call for reservation 978 3888. Further information on the website, www.rutherford.org.

Tuesday, July 26: 1:00 p.m. Rutherford Institute Summer Speaker Series: Thomas Hansen, author and researcher Are ETs for Real?. At the Institute, 1440 Sachem Place, Charlottesville. Call for reservation 978 3888. Further information on the website, www.rutherford.org.

Friday, July 29: 10:00 a.m. Rutherford Institute Summer Speaker Series: Michael Ostrolenk, public policy consultant The Transpartisan Imperative in Public Police: Bringin Liberals, Libertarians, Conservatives & Progressives Together to Save the Republic. At the Institute, 1440 Sachem Place, Charlottesville. Call for reservation 978 3888. Further information on the website, www.rutherford.org.