vol. 45, no. 3
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Volume E:
Michael Miller
= Apri 1980
Jay Rights Case
Warren Preston (cir.), a civilian graphic designer who lost his job when the Army revoked
his security clearance, explains his discrimination suit against the Army at an ACLU press
conference, flanked by ah Orney: Steve Mayer (1.) and Amitai Schwartz (r.).
~ Mental Patients Win
In a settlement described as a
"breakthrough for mental patients,"
voluntary patients in all public and
private licensed mental health facilities
in the state of California, for the first
time have the right to refuse mind alter-
ing drugs as a result of new regulations
from the California Department of -
Mental Health.
The regulations, approved March 11
by U.S. District Court Judge William
- Orrick, stipulate that patients shall be
advised of all possible side effects of the
proposed medications before giving
informed consent, and may withdraw
their consent at any time prior to or
during administration of the drugs.
The new regulations are a result
of the ACLU-NC lawsuit, Jamison v.
Farabee, which challenged the forcible
administration of psychotropic drugs to
mental patients. The suit was filed in
February, 1978.
According to the new regulations,
"Every person admitted as a voluntary
patient for psychiatric evaluation or
treatment in any facility ... has the
right to refuse administration of
antipsychotic medications.
`"`A yoluntary patient shall be treated
with antipsychotic medications only
after such a person has been informed
_ decision,'
_ of his or her right to accept or refuse
such medications.
`In order to make an informed
patient must be provided with sufficient
information by the physician
prescribing the medications."
The information must include the
reasonable alternative treatments
available and the probable side effects
the regulations state, ``the.
sht to Refuse Brute"
likely to occur with the particular
patient.
Not only must the patient give
informed consent for administration of
medication, but a voluntary patient
may also withdraw consent to the
administration of antipsychotic
medications at any time.
Moreover, the regulations stipulate
that `Refusal to consent to the adminis-
tration of antipsychotic medications
shall not in itself constitute grounds for
initiating an involuntary commitment."
_According to Professor Morton
Cohen of the Constitutional Law Clinic
at Golden Gate Law School and co-
counsel in the case, "The new
regulations are a breakthrough for the
rights of voluntary mental patients.
"Prior to these regulations, many
patients were not aware of some of the
negative side effects of the antipsychotic
drugs they were being given.
"Some of the side effects, such as
blurred vision, muscle rigidity,
trembling and increased salivation are
immediately obvious to patients.
``However,'' Cohen explained,
"Many patients think that these are
symptoms of their illness, rather than-
effects from their medications.
"But the other side effects may not
become evident until the patients have
taken a drug beyond three months.
continued on page 4
losing the
"mission
The Army's revocation of a civilian
worker's security clearance on the
grounds that he engaged in homosexual .
activity is unconstitutional, claims an
ACLU lawsuit filed on March 26.
Warren Gene Preston, a graphic
designed employed by GTE Sylvania in
Mountain View, has done contract
- work for the Army for over ten years.
Preston has a. Top Secret clearance
from the Department of Defense, and
up until last year had a Sensitive
Compartmented Information (SCD
clearance from the Department of the
Army which was necessary for the work
he was doing.
In March, 1979 the Army revoked
Preston's SCI security clearance on the
grounds that he had engaged in
homosexual conduct. As a result of
clearance, Preston was
transferred from his job and suffered
subsequent loss of pay, loss of prestige,
and damage to his reputation.
Preston spoke ef his ordeal at an
ACLU press conference. ``] guess you
could call me a `company man' - |
always put the company's work first
and I just want to be judged by the
standards that other workers are judged
by.
"Yet my security clearance was
removed and I was demoted and
humiliated. One morning I had to leave
the job I had been doing for thirteen
years - and could not even enter the
room where I had been working.
"I was forced to take time off without
pay and then further demoted to part-
time work - and yet I had done
nothing wrong.
"I do not understand this value
system," Preston said.
The ACLU is suing the Army on
Preston's behalf for discrimination and
violation of due process.
Steve Mayer, ACLU cooperating
attorney explained, "The Army's
revocation of the SCI security clearance
is illegal and unconstitutional.
"The Army gave Preston no advance
notice that they were revoking the
clearance, nor did they give him a
hearing at which to confront the
evidence against him or to present his
own evidence, and they denied him the |
right to appeal the decision. This is in
violation of the U.S. Constitution and
federal regulations governing security
clearances.
"Furthermore, the revocation was
based solely on Preston's own ad-
that he had engaged in
homosexual activities. Preston's sexual
preference bears no relationship to his
fitness to hold the SCI
clearance,'' Mayer said.
"ACLU staff attorney Amitai Sch-
wartz added, "`It is important to note
that, based on the same investigation
which resulted in the Army removing
security
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Preston's clearance, the Department of
Defense concluded that Preston should
continue to hold his Top Secret
clearance.
"The report said that Preston would
not be subject to `blackmail, coercion
and pressure' because he had disclosed
his homosexual activity to ae friends
and ex-wife.
"The Army, on the other hand, using
the same facts, concluded the exact
opposite. They said the fact that
Preston had informed his friends and
ex-wife of his homosexual conduct
showed a lack of good judgment and
that `clearly demonstrated . (his)
unreliability, untrustworthiness and
unsuitability for access to classified
information.'
"That the Department of Defense
and the Army could come to totally
opposite conclusions based on the same
evidence indicates that the Army's
decision was arbitrary and Bete
Schwartz concluded.
The SCI clearance is of a more
sensitive nature than the Top Secret or
anyother clearance. _ The rules
governing the granting or the revoking
of the SCI clearance have never before
been tested it `a court of law.
Mayer explained, "We feel that the
Army may have instituted this new
classification precisely to get around the
due process. regulations which govern -
the, revocation of other security
clearances. _
"That is why this case is particularly
important in determining whether due
process regulations can be capriciously _
ignored by the Army," Mayer said.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court .
in San Francisco, seeks the rein-
statement of Preston's SCI clearance,
back pay and damages.
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Shopping Center
Leafletters Victory
Attorneys for a Contra Costa County
shopping mall have failed in their court
attempt to stop supporters of two pro-
posed ballet initiatives from gathering
signatures at the shopping center.
_ On April 1, Superior Court Judge
Martin J. Rothenberg denied an in-
junction that would have sharply re-
stricted petition circulators at the Sun .
Valley shopping center in Concord.
Judge Rothenberg, agreeing with
ACLU attorneys said Sun Valley's rules
regulating political petitioning at the
mall "are obviously designed to dis-
suade the exercise of First Amendment
rights and have a chilling effect.'
Rothenberg also said that the shop-
ping center's attorneys failed to show
any injury from the petition passers. He
_continued on page 4
~ aclu news
April 1980
| ACLU Paice Debate,
By Dorothy Ehrlich
Executive Director, ACLU-NC
When President Carter's draft
registration proposal was formally sent
to Congress in February, it included a
new twist in the conscription scheme:
for the first time, men and women
would be required to register for the
draft. The inclusion of women in the
draft set off a nationwide debate.
This break with tradition becamethe .
focus of much of the discussion
regarding reinstitution of registration
and conscription. At a time when draft
opponents need unity, our message -
opposition to registration for both men
and women - often became muted. In
the media and in Congress, attention
was centered on the gender of the
proposed registrants,`rather than the
spontaneous nationwide protest against
the draft. ;
Rejection
The heightened interest in the i in-
clusion of women in the draft proposal
was short-lived however. The divisive
issue, which galvanized feminist and
anti-war groups in opposition to the
draft and created an alliance between
anti-feminist groups and pro-military
forces in support of the men-only draft,
was abruptly halted by the House
Armed Services Subcommittee on
March 6 when it rejected military
conscription for women by a 8-1 vote
following a 20-minute discussion.
- That rejection brought an immediate _
response from ACLU lobbyists in
Washington, D.C. They said, "The
Subcommittee's action means that the
courts are likely to invalidate the
entire registration proposal. The ACLU |
is already preparing a case challenging
a males-only registration."
Equal Protection.
At issue in the proposed national
litigation is the unconstitutionality of
any Congressional proposal which
places the burden of draft registration
Draft Update
When Members of Congress are in
their home districts for the Easter
`recess (April 4 through April 11) they
should be hearing protests about the
draft from their constituents.
According to Barry Lynn, chair-
person of the Washington based
Committee Against Registration and
the Draft (C.A.R.D.), the full House will
be voting on Carter's registration
proposal shortly after the recess.
Lynn says that the vote in the House
is uncertain - how Representatives
vote may largely be determined by how
they "perceive the mood of their
districts'' during the recess.
Carter's draft registration proposals
have been moving slowly through
Congress. The issue has been pending
in the House Appropriations Committee
for about six weeks. A sub-committee
almost killed the measure.
The delay is caused in part by
Congressional budget restrictions. The
Administration has been trying to
arrange a transfer of funds to the
Selective Service from another part of
the military budget so that restrictions
on supplemental ppprop avons can be
circumvented.
`directly
Photo: Unity Newspaper
Women and the Dratt
on males only, in violation a the right _
to equal protection.
This new strategy to challenge the (c)
draft provoked a lively debate at the
March meeting of the ACLU-NC Board
of Directors.
Ad-Hoc Committee
The debate was initiated by a 9-
member Ad Hoc Committee on the
Draft established by Chairperson
Drucilla Ramey. Fortunately, the
committee's first meeting coincided
with the visit of the director of the
national ACLU's Women's Rights
Project, Isabelle Katz Pinzler.
Pinzler explained the national ACLU
legal strategy to the committee. A
federal lawsuit would be aimed at
invalidating the entire
registration act (if approved by
Congress) on the basis that a single-sex
registration law is violative of the equal .
protection component of the Fifth
Amendment. -
Legal Weapon
""No one can feel entirely comfortable
with this issue," claimed Pinzler, `"`but
there is no question that this is our most
viable legal weapon to invalidate the
registration act, if it is approved by
Congress.
Wholesale challenges to _ the
peacetime draft have been notoriously
unsuccessful - thus the only
vulnerable part of the law appears to be
the sex-based classification."
That. uneasy feeling brought no
consensus to the ad hoc committee .
which chose not to bring a recom-
mendation to the affiliate Board and
instead directed the staff to summarize
the pro and con arguments expressed
by the committee members.
Those opposed to the lawsuit
oe claimed that the ACLU
challenged.
could not oppose the draft, and then
turn around and say - `But if you do
draft someone, you must draft women
as well as men."
_ However, the Board ultimately
decided to support the national ACLU's
proposed lawsuit by a 16-6 vote.
The anti-draft activists were aligned -
with legal experts on the Board who felt
that as a practical matter the sex
discrimination argument was the most
likely to prevail in the federal courts, as
historically we have failed to have a
court uphold our position that the draft
per se is unconstitutional.
Women's rights supporters who felt
that Congress is building a bad record
in regard to excluding women, claimed
such a decision, which offends our
commitment to equal rights, must be
Policy
The resolution, which is now part of
the ACLU-NC policy, is as follows: .
The ACLU of Northern California,
based upon its policies and those of the
national ACLU opposing the peacetime
draft as involuntary servitude and
further opposing any sex or gender
discrimination, would encourage the
national ACLU to file a _ lawsuit
challenging any draft statute that draws
a gender distinction.
Further, the ACLU of. Northern
California itself will consider un-
dertaking any such litigation if the
national ACLU does not.
We are hopeful that through lob-
bying and other efforts, we will be able
to ensure that Carter's draft proposal
does not get Congressional approval.
However, if it does, and a legal
challenge is imminent then it is im-
portant that we have thoroughly
debated this controversial issue and will
be ready to act with unity and speed.
HAYAKAWA PROTEST - ACLU-NC Chairperson Drucilla Ramey spoke at a rally on
March 17 about the ACLU challenge to the deportation of Iranians and the ACLU-NC's his-
torical protest against the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII. The rally and ~
picket at Senator Hayakawa's San Francisco office was organized by the Japanese Americans
for Fair Play to protest Hayakawa's proposal to put Iranians in concentration camps.
' .Senators testifying at initial hearings
on the draft proposal last month were
very critical and now it appears the
Senate will not act until the House
votes.
"The Caner Administration has
made another mistake in letting the
vote go until after the recess. All ACLU-
NC members concerned with the draft .
should take advantage of the break to
let Representatives know that op-
position to the draft is strong,"
mented ACLU-NC Field Representative
Michael P. Miller.
"If the measure somehow ciears the
House, there will probably be a Senate
filibuster led by Senator Hatfield
(Oregon). ACLU members should be
pressuring Senator Cranston to support
the filibuster,' Miller added.
| a4
By Nancy Pemberton
ACLU-NC Equality Committee
The Equality Committee of the
ACLU of Northern California has
raised over $550 to support the ACLU
of Arkansas' educational conference for
minority women on the Equal Rights
Amendment.
Arkansas is one of 1S states which
has not yet ratified the ERA.(The other
states are Alabama, Arizona, Florida,
Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Missis-
sippi, Missouri, Nevada, North
Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina,
Utah and Virginia.)
With the ratification of three more
states needed prior to June 30, 1982,
the ACLU of Arkansas wants to
educate people on the meaning of the
ERA and its importance to our vision of
equality.
Because the ACLU of Arkansas is a _
small affiliate, they turned to the
ACLU-NC for support of the
conference. The ACLU-NC Board of
Directors agreed, as part of its
commitment to the ERA, to "adopt"
the Arkansas ACLU and provide them
with financial and technical assistance.
The ACLU-NC Equality Committee,
hoping to raise $300 for the Arkansas
conference, sent letters to Chapters and
Board members seeking their support.
The response has been overwhelming.
However, in the meantime, we have
learned from the ACLU of Arkansas
that conference expenses will run close
to $1,000 so any additional support we
can provide will be greatly appreciated.
ACLU-NC is not the only affiliate to
"adopt"? another to aid its ERA
activities. Southern California has adopt-
ed Louisiana and South Dakota has
adopted Georgia. Both are providing
financial support and other assistance.
Our commitment to ERA ratification
can not end with passage in the
California legislature. We must remain
- active until the ERA has been made the
27th Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution.
Rights Award
The ACLU-NC Board of Directors
is seeking nominations for the 1980
Earl Warren Civil Liberties Award
which will be presented at the Bill of
Rights Day Celebration in December.
Nominations should be sent to: Bill
of Rights Day Committee, ACLU-NC
Board of Directors, 814 Mission St.,
Rm. 301, San Francisco, 94103.
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aclu news
April 1980
~ New Faces at the -ACLU-NG
Staff.
Pat Jameson, ACLU's new w Legal As-
sistant, brings to the Legal Department
a wealth of political and legal experience.
Jameson first became involved in
legal work in the aftermath of the 1970
riots in Santa Barbara. She was asked
to coordinate the work of the Santa
Barbara Legal Center, which was
created at that time to do the legal de-
fense of the over 500 people who were
arrested after the burning of the Bank
of America.
Though Jameson was in her final
quarter at UC Santa Barbara studying
sociology and political science, she ac-
cepted the offer to be the first staff per-
son of the Legal Center - and has
never looked back.
As the Center's work expanded,
Jameson became involved in civil
liberties cases, poverty law, and
prisoners' rights.
"The Center's phone number was post- -
_ed everywhere in Santa Barbara -
including the county jail. After office
hours, the Center's answering service
would forward calls to my home. So I
would routinely get calls in the middle
of the night from prisoners who needed
legal advice and had nowhere to turn,"
_ Jameson said.
She was also involved in writing a
pamphlet on people' s legal rights a in
putting on a "`people's law school'
Santa Barbara.
Jameson's involvement in the Center
decided her on legal work. In 1971, she
moved to Los Angeles where she worked
as a paralegal for labor law firms.
In Los Angeles, she was shop steward
_ for the office workers' union (OPEIU)
Church-State Battle in Sacramento
By Brent Barnhart
ACLU-NC Legislative Advocate
A battle is looming in the state legis-
lature over the threat to freedom of wor-
ship in the state of California. Forces
from the Attorney General's office are.
lining up against leaders of religious or-
ganizations over a new bill from
Senator Petris which would limit the
Attorney General's authority to
scrutinize the operations of religious
corporations.
Late in the 1979 legislative session,
the Attorney General's lobbyists
successfully piggybacked a church
regulation provision into an enormous
revision of California's Non-Profit Cor-
porations codes. That provision,
Corporations Code Section 9230,
essentially treats every church, syna-
gogue and chapel as a regulated indus-
try - through ironically, with less pro-
cedural protection than private
businesses enjoy.
_ After the 1979 session ended, the
ACLU met with representatives of a
broad spectrum of religions -
Baptists, Methodists, Lutherans, Pres-
byterians, United Pentecostals, Unitar-
ians, and Seventh Day Adventists.
After several discussions, we
approached Senator Nicholas Petris,
past president of the Greek Orthodox
Church of the Ascension in Oakland,
and he agreed to introduce a bill to
repeal section 9230.
The Petris bill, SB 1493, was passed
Michael Miller
and helped negotiate contracts for the
firms' employees.
Tired of the LA smog, she moved to
the Bay Area last year and worked for
the San Francisco law. firm of Davis,
Cowell and Bowe as a legal secretary
doing labor and legal trust fund work.
After meeting up with an old friend
who happened to be an ACLU staff
attorney, she decided to apply for a job
at the ACLU. :
"I was getting frustrated with the or-
thodox legal establishment,'' Jameson
explained, ``and I wanted to get back
into more meaningful legal work -
helping people directly with their legal
problems."
And Jameson now _ has_ the
opportunity to do just that. She is res-
ponsible for answering the stacks of
complaint mail that come to the ACLU
every day - queries from prisoners,
tenants, students, and workers on a
whole range of legal problems.
Jameson is also Legal Assistant to
one of the staff attorneys and has the
_ task of assisting the ACLU Legal
Committee.
by the Senate Judiciary Committe, 8-0,
on March 25th. It now goes to the
Senate Finance Committee and should
reach the Senate floor by mid-May.
Attorney General's powers
What Section 9230 effectively says is
that freedom of worship in California is
subject to the Attorney General's veto
- a premise that has borne bitter fruit
in the Soviet Union and elsewhere. For
- example, the section empowers the AG
to inspect the books, documents and
property of churches
unilateral determination that a
congregation ``fails to qualify as a
religious corporation."'
The same section authorizes the AG
to bring a civil action where he deter-
mines that the church has "improperly
diverted assets from stated corporate
purposes.' Since most churches state
some very general corporate purpose
such as ``to spread the word of God,"
the AG is authorized by Section 9230 to
second-guess whether a particular ac-
tion of a church - purchase of ornate
chandeliers, food for Cambodian relief,
or silent vigils against war and the draft
- is consistent with that purpose.
Threat
Almost immediately after Petris'
introduction of SB 1493, the S.F.
`Chronicle came out with an article by
Ralph Craib which maintained that
Petris - based on past association -
was fronting for Synanon. Thus,
upon his.
Lisa wbO and ard Mayer have
- been chosen to fill the two positions' on
the ACLU-NC Board of Directors left
vacant as a result of the mid-term resig-
nations of Iris Mitgang and Emily
Skolnick.
Lisa Honig is a freelance fundraising
consultant and _ benefit concert
producer. She is currently coordinating
a benefit concert for the Free Chile Cen-
ter and acting as a fundraising and de-
velopment consultant for Equal Rights
Advocates, Inc.
Honig has a wide background in
fundraising for non-profit organizations.
She has produced benefit concerts for
Bread and Roses, SolarCal and the
Farallones Institute as well as organizing
concerts in prisons, juvenile halls,
psychiatric institutions and centers for the
disabled.
The ACLU benefited from ene S
work when she co-produced a Lily Tom-
lin performance at the Oakland
Paramount Theater for the ACLU in
1976.
`Lisa Honig.
widespread public concern about
"cults'"" may similarly blind otherwise
sensitive people to the horrible threat
which the Public Trust Doctrine poses
to freedom of worship, and collaterally
to freedom of association and group
advocacy.
Nothing in SB 1493 infringes upon
the AG's law enforcement powers. A
religious corporation cannot be allowed
to serve as a screen for criminal activity.
Vigorous investigation into fraud
schemes, storing of illegal-weapons,
and assault on innocent citizens is
entirely proper if that investigation and
prosecution are pursued through the
use of search warrants, subpoenas and
other lawful procedures.
Unjustified scrutiny
But there is an enormous difference
between that appropriate use of
investigative and prosecution powers,
and. the blanket surveillance which the
California Attorney General has suc- |
cessfully staked.out for himself.
Subjecting law-abiding citizens to"
mandatory disclosure of their private
~ affairs, and subjecting them to inspec-
tion at the whim and convenience of |
government agents is hardly acceptable
under any circumstances. When such
action is taken against congregations of
people who rightly assume that freedom
of worship, conscience and thought lie
at the very core of the American
heritage and American freedoms, the
collective damage is greatly increased.
-English folk music on KPFA.
Last year, Honig worked in
Oklahoma organizing and consulting
on fundraising for the Karen Silkwood
Fund.
She says, "Particularly after working
on the Silkwood case, I have become
increasingly convinced that basic civil
rights in this country are not being
upheld.
"I have been impressed with the
ACLU's consistent drive towards
maintaining civil liberties for all people,
even when the struggles are not always -
popular ones," Honig: told the ACLU
News.
Steve Mayer has been a member of
the ACLU-NC Legal Committee for
four years. As an ACLU-NC
cooperating attorney, he worked on the
successful battle to lift the government
injunction on the Daily Cal in the H-
Bomb case (ACLU News, October 79),
and is currently litigating the ACLU
suit against the Army for revoking a
security clearance from a contracted
civilian employee for BOP seru aly
(see p. 1). /
A graduate of Oberlin College and
Boalt Hall Law School, Mayer is a
private attorney with the San Francisco
firm of Howard, Prim, Rice,
Nemerovsky, Canady and Pollak. He
was one of the attorneys who litigated
the celebrated Stanford Daily case in
which, as Mayer says, ``the U.S.
Supreme Court unfortunately ruled
that police could ransack newspaper of-
fices through surprise searches."
Mayer, a guitarist and folk music
enthusiast, had his own radio show of
Steve Mayer
"T have worked closely with the
ACLU for many years," Mayer told the
ACLU News, ``as a member of the
Legal Committee and a cooperating
attorney.
"T look forward to serving as a mem-
ber of the Board, and hope to see the
ACLU expand its work into civil
liberties in the private sector -
particularly the rights of workers."'
Members are reminded that the
` nominating procedure for this year's
ACLU-NC Board elections has begun.
Members may submit suggestions to
the Nominating Committee before
April 15, or nominate candidates by
submitting a petition with the
signatures of 15 current ACLU
members to the Board by May 1. |
= :
Correction
In the Legislative Report in ACLU
News, Jan-Feb 1980, the penalty in the
new Spousal Rape Law (AB 546) should
have read: Maximum penalty is 6 to 8
years in prison or 1 year in county jail.
aclu news
April 1980
Patients Rights
continued from page 1
"One of these side effects - tardive
dyskenesia - includes persistent
involuntary movement of the face or
mouth, and might `at times include
similar movement ofthe hands and
feet. These symptoms are potentially ir-
reversible, that is, they may be
permanent - and they may not appear
until after medications have been
discontinued.
"That is why it is pe hetlanly :
important that patients must now be
told this information before they
consent to taking the medications,"
Cohen concluded.
Wade Hudson, a former mental pa-
tient who now serves on the San Fran-
cisco County Mental Health Advisory
Board reiterated Cohen's admonitions
about the drugs' side effects based on
his own experiences.
Calling the medication ``mental
cement," Hudson said, "These drugs
are used like a maintenance program in
place of curative treatment for mental
illness.
Hudson also described alternative
forms of treatment, such as therapeutic
communities, which allow patients to
live in a supportive environment and
deal with their problems without
becoming ``drug dependent".
Alan Schlosser, ACLU staff counsel
added, "Often patients would accept
medications because-they did not know
there were alternative treatments avail-
able, or they feared that refusing medi-
cations would lead to their involuntary
commitment to a mental hospital."
Attorneys Morton Cohen and Alan Schlosser
Remaining in the Jamison case,
which is presently pending in the U.S.
District Court, is the ACLU claim that
involuntary mental patients should be
given the same right to informed
+ consent and refusal.
lobby, influence, pressure,
leverage, negotiate, win
Words that can work for you, if you know how. Learn
to turn these words into action at the Civil Liberties
Lobby `Grassroots Lobbying" workshop.
Develop lobbying strategies, as a special workshop
focus, to control police abuse through state legisla-
tion. And learn techniques to use with any grassroots -
legislative campaign.
Then, put the workshop lessons to work in Sacra-
mento at the Civil Liberties Lobby Day in early June.
Directly lobby your representatives on legislation to
stop police misconduct.
Kare Anderson, former legislative aide and UPI re-
porter turned television commentator and legislative
organizing consultant, will lead the workshop. Sixty
ACLU-NC activists said Kare's one-hour presentation
was the highlight of a two-day legislative conference
last year. Kare will conduct-her full, four hour work-
shop this year.
grassroots lobbying Se oneshor @ policing the police
saturday, may 17.cent 10 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
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550 mission st. (near-1st) cent
san francisco
President
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Shopping Centers.
continued from page Le
characterized the Sun Valley ieclata.
tions to the Court as at most "`inadmis-
sible hearsay and statements of opinion
without any foundation or facts."
The beneficiaries of the ruling are the
California Tax Reform Association,
authors of the `Tax Simplicity Act"
initiative, and Californians for Smoking
and No Smoking Sections, authors of
an initiative to regulate smoking in
public places.
`For many grassroots organizations,
shopping centers are an important pub-
lic forum," said ACLU cooperating
attorney Robert Fries.
`The California Supreme Court
ruled last year that outright prohibition
of groups seeking access to shopping
centers is illegal.
centers are issuing burdensome regula-
tions trying to accomplish the same
result,'' said Fries.
Fries added, "This is the first time a
court looked at shopping center regula-
tions and it clearly indicates that impor-
tant free speech rights cannot be under-
mined by these unnecessary shopping
center restrictions. The decision
prevents shopping centers from creating
a large loophole to evade the law."
The shopping center regulations
which Judge Rothenberg ruled were un-
constitutional would have required that
separate applications be made for each
different day of petition gathering and
imposed a seven-day waiting period
after filing an application.
The regulations would have allowed
only one group at the shopping center
at a time and restricted the group to one
preassigned location. Sun Valley
officials also sought to review the
content of any material and to regulate
the design of any signs used by the peti-
tion circulators.
Action/ Reaction
GRASSROOTS FUNDRAISING.
What happens when you sell out the:
house for one night at One Act
Theater? If you are the San Francisco
Chapter, you raise $1,700 for the Fay
Stender Trust Fund. A chapter com-
mittee led by Peggy Sarasohn organized
the event last month .... Im Oakland,
the Earl Warren Chapter raised almost -
their entire annual budget through one
event, an art auction. E.W. board
member Dar eeppernih Pu that one
together.
SELECTIVE ANTI-SERVICE.
draft proposals.
received untavorable reviews from a_
Carter's
Monterey Chapter panel last month
featuring board members Francis
Heisler and Samson Knoll plus
Progressive magazine editor Milton
Mayer. Mayer warmed up for the panel
with an ACLU sponsored debate on the
draft at Monterey Peninsula College
. Every month or two College of
Marin students complain to the ACLU-
NC about free speech problems with the
administration. Last year the Marin
Chapter even helped rewrite campus
regulations for political activity. But
complaints continue. So this time, the
Marin Chapter board met with students
on campus and asked staff attorney
Alan Schlosser to explain a few First
Amendment basics. All was tranquility
until a COM administrator spoke up.
and exemplified just what the students
_ were having problems with.
In response, many -
Calendar-~
B-A-K
WINE and CHEESE PARTY.
Saturday, April 12, 5-7 p.m. All
Souls Episcopal Church, Spruce and
Cedar, Berkeley. Speaker:
Congressman Ron Dellums. $5.00
donation.
Marin
BOARD MEETING. Monday, April.
+14, 8 p.m., Fidelity Savings, Mill
Valley.
Monterey
BOARD MEETING. TUESDAY, (c)
April 22, 8 p.m., Monterey Public
Library, Monterey.
Gay Rights,
Mid-Peninsula and -
Santa Clara
JOINT MEMBERSHIP MEETING.
Sunday, April 27, 2-5 p.m,
Abraham Lincoln High School cafe-
teria, 555 Dana Ave., San Jose.
Program: Why Do We Need Gay
Rights Ordinances? A discussion of
ballot measures to repeal gay rights
| ordinances in Santa Clara County -
and the City of San Jose. Coffee and ~
sweets. -
S
`TALKING S-1 BLUES. In February,
Berkeley-Albany-Kensington Chapter -
had ACLU-NC Board member Dick
Criley talk about $-1722 (`Grandson of
S-1") and Criminal Code Reform ....
B-A-K has several openings for the
chapter telephone hotline committee. If
you want a quick civil liberties
education, call Eileen Keech at 848-
0089 And, B-A-K is taking
nominations for their board. Call
Margarie Gelb, 655-6211, before April
24.
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