The event will be conducted in English. It will be made orally and educational hand-outs in English will be provided.

Participants will take away a good understanding of how the government operates and they will have an action plan of how to successfully challenge and file complaints against the Department of Homeland Security employees.

Participants can ask questions and I will be available after event for phone calls, emails, workshops, consultations in small groups or one-on-one.

The biggest challenges my organization faces are: 1) courageous and visionary activists and advocates to sit on Civilian Review Boards to monitor the practices of DHS, 2) protection (financial and emotional) for more internal whistleblowers to expose unethical practices and corruption, and 3) the cost associated with the distribution of the two books on a domestic and international level “The Failure of Homeland In-Security: The Government’s Dirty Little Secrets from an Insider” (http://www.homelandin-security.com) and “The Cathy Harris Story: Courage Under Fire (http://www.thecathyharrisstory.com).”

The two books will educate, inform and empower the domestic and international community on how to successfully challenge the Department of Homeland Security and make more reforms.

It is my goal to take the above challenges to the very people that I am trying to protect and ask for their involvement and assistance.

Ideally, I would like to have both books in print by the time of this event. Both books are ready to go to book printers and I am seeking "financial investors" to assist me with distributing them on both a domestic and international level.

As a 20 year Customs and Border Protection Officer "old name U.S. Customs Service" employee and federal whistleblower, I am still in a position to expose and make more changes. People will need to be educated before they take action. The books will educate everyone to take action to change their lives.

My organization have been approached by several whistleblowers in the past and whistleblowers bring the media. The only thing that the Department of Homeland Security is afraid of is the "media."

My organization was successful in making the following changes: 1) Congressional and Senatorial hearings took place, 2) The entire Personal Search Handbook was rewritten, 3) Two bills were introduced to protect international travelers “The Reasonable Search Standards Act by Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) in 1999 & 2001” and the “Civil Rights for International Travelers Act by Congressman John Lewis (D-GA) in 1999 & 2001, 4) New and updated brochures, signs and other informational material including the Customs declaration were rewritten and reproduced, 5) The decision to conduct a personal search of a passenger must now be decided by a GS-12, supervisor rather than a non-supervisory inspector, including a brand new Customs Inspector, 6) The Customs Managers at the GS-14 or GS-15 levels must now approve all x-ray examinations of passengers at hospitals, 7) After a passenger is taken into a search room, if the search last longer than 2 hours - Customs supervisors will make a phone call to a person of the passenger’s choice, 8) Customs now requires that all Secondary Data collections include race, 9) CBP Officers are now wearing name tags so they can be easily identified for complaint letters, 10) Body scan machines can now take the place of pat-down inspections

Changes that still need to occur: 1) Form Civilian Review Boards to monitor the Department of Homeland Security, 2) Need to remove innocent travelers off government’s domestic & international no fly watch-lists, 3) Urge the Senate and Congress to take immediate action and order GAO investigations and conduct hearings into the internal practices of the agency especially the new harsh Tables of offenses under DHS, 4) Urge legislators to hire sociologists and psychologists to study the personal search procedures as suggested by the June 2000 Independent Panel Report, 5) Urge legislators to hire outside contract workers to conduct mandatory extensive training (integrity, sensitivity, cultural diversity, EEO and Sexual Harassment, etc.) as suggested by the 2000 Independent Panel Report., 6) Ensure minority female supervisors (front-line, first-line) GS-12s are recruited nationally, 7) Review new body scanner machines which are showing the private parts of travelers, 8) Ensure that the two hour rule is enforced – giving travelers the right to contact a person of their choosing after they have been escorted into search room, 9) Rehire or compensate all former Customs employees that were terminated under the reign of the former Customs Commissioner Raymond Kelly aka “The Hackett Man” (over 100 whistleblowers and others). Kelly gave orders in a high-level management meeting in Headquarters to go after anyone who files an EEO complaint, 10) There needs to be an independent panel or group formed to delete the illegal records that Customs Inspectors have put in their computers over the years.