Name: Max Taetle

Social Justice Group: 2018-2019, Freedom of the Press

Date of Fieldwork: December 1, 2018

Name of Organization: CJA

Person (people) with whom I met and their job titles: Farah Brelvi Lawyer

Type of Fieldwork: Interview

What I did:

We skyped a family friend of Tatsuya’s named Farah Brelvi. She taught us about the 1st amendment and cases that she have done which involve it. She used to work for the ACLU and she told us about cases she worked. It helped us because she was clearly smart and knew what she was doing.

What I learned:

A recent case Farah told us about was when the ACLU investigated a murder of a journalist named Marie Colvin who was a war reporter in Syria. Colvin was murdered by the Syrian government because they claimed she was spreading lies to the U.S. We also learned about an older case where the ACLU defended Nazis who marched through a Jewish neighborhood in Chicago. She thought that the ACLU did a bad thing by doing this.

What I learned about Social Justice “work” and/or Civil and Human rights “work” from this fieldwork:

We learned how much insight someone like Farah has, and what they can do to help us with our topic. We also learned about the core fundamentals of freedom of the press.