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Nobel Prize winner and retired University of Missouri professor George Smith will discuss boycotts and the First Amendment in a talk at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Daniel Boone Regional Library Friends Room.<\/p>\n
The event sponsored by the Mid-Missouri Civil Liberties Association is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n
Legislation has been introduced in the U.S. Congress and in the Missouri General Assembly to outlaw the use of boycotts against Israel. A boycott, divest and sanction movement against Israel for its treatment of Palestinians has gained traction among some groups and people.<\/p>\n
The Mid-Missouri Civil Liberties Association doesn't take a position on the BDS movement, but resists any effort to limit the First Amendment rights of Americans to take part in the activities, according to a news release.<\/p>\n
George Smith shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2018.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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