vol. 45, no. 3

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

No. 3

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.

A (R)

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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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

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94103.

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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