As part of GAP's American Whistleblower Tour, Florida International University is hosting a two-day event focusing on current and pressing issues related to whistleblowing, entitled: What If Nobody Listened? How Whistleblowers and Journalists Expose Corruption, Skullduggery and Injustices

All GAP supporters are invited, of course, to this wonderful event featuring presentations like

• How Whistling Smoked Out Big Tobacco (with CBS producer Lowell Bergman and 'The Insider' Jeffrey Wigand)
• The Politics of Concealment and Revelation in the Nixon Era (with CNN reporter and professor at the University of Maryland Mark Feldstein)
• No Secrets: How Whistleblowers and Journalists Have Changed the World (featuring Frank Casey, Bernard Madoff whistleblower)

A complete schedule of the event can be found here

GAP kicked off its American Whistleblower Tour: Essential Voices for Accountability at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. National Security Agency whistleblower Tom Drake, SEC whistleblower Gary Aguirre, and Kansas City Star reporter Mike McGraw joined GAP President Louis Clark and National Security & Human Rights (and DOJ whistleblower) Jesselyn Radack for a full day of events, including class presentations and intimate discussions with students. The main event, however, was a phenomenal panel presentation in front of an estimated 1,800 – 2,000 Nebraskans at UNL's Lied Center (video above).

The 2011 Washington Whistleblower Assembly took place in September on Capitol Hill. By all measures, the event was a rousing success.

This year's theme was "Whistleblowers Protecting the Public ... But Who's Protecting the Whistleblower?" The primary focus of the gathering was to build support for final passage of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA), introduced in the 112th Congress by Senator Daniel Akaka (D-HI) and Senator Susan Collins (R-ME). Participants encouraged Congress to stop wasting America's most effective resource against government misspending and abuse of power, through passage of the WPEA.GAP's Legal Director Tom Devine presents Senator Akaka with the GAP Public Servant Award for his commitment to whistleblower rights.

There were a multitude of events and panels lined up for both days. The Assembly offered a full day of instructional workshops, speeches and appearances by high-profile whistleblowers, plenary sessions, and a full "lobbying day" where participants met with legislators and staff in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.