Civic Action Conference
On September 14, 2008, 30 Years After hosted its 2008 Civic and Political Action Conference at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. The conference was attended by approximately 1,000 people and featured several prominent speakers, including nationally syndicated radio talk-show host Dennis Prager, Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA), Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA) and California State Assemblyman Joel Anderson (R-El Cajon). Press coverage for the conference was picked up by the Jewish Journal and by the Washington Post.
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