vol. 44, no. 4
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'S.F. Anti-Loitering Law
Challenged
San Francisco police have arrested
thousands of people in a "clean the
streets" operation that was challenged
_ as unconstitutional by a lawsuit filed by |
the ACLU of Northern California May
1 against San Francisco's Police Chief
Charles Gain, Sheriff Eugene Brown,
and District Attorney Joseph Frietas.
Four resident taxpayers of the city
filed the lawsuit, alleging that under
San Francisco Municipal Code, section
20 (which prohibits obstructing
sidewalks and standing in doorways
without the owner's consent), the police
have arrested thousands of people
knowing that the District Attorney's
office will not prosecute. The lawsuit
alleges that arrests are made to harrass
and to rid the streets of people con-
sidered undesirable, unpopular, or
destitute by the police.
"The Chief of Police, Sheriff, and
District Attorney have conspired to
deny people arrested for allegedly
obstructing sidewalks or standing in
doorways due process of law and equal
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May 1979
protection of the law," said Amitai Sch-
wattz, ACLU-NC staff attorney. `Most
people are arrested and forced to
remain in custody or post bail pending
formal arraignment in court. Then, at
the time of the arraignment, the
District Attorney's office decides that it
will not prosecute and the people are
released,' Schwartz explained.
The suit alleges that at least 750
people werre arrested during the first
three months of this year, but that most
charges were dropped by the
prosecutor, and none received trials.
For example, a person can be
arrested by San Francisco police on a
Friday night for obstructing a sidewalk.
Unless the person can post bail of $250,
or pay $35 for a bail bond, the person
will remain in jail until 10:30 a.m.
Monday morning. At that time, the
prosecutor will announce that no
formal charges will be filed and the
suspect is released. In the case of people
posting a bail bond, they lose their $35.
The court can not review the basis for
~ the Friday night arrest because the first
opportunity comes on Monday, and on
Monday, the case is dropped.
"The ordinance itself is un-
constitutional because its terms cover
everything from obstructing a sidewalk
while waiting for a bus, to standing ina
doorway to get out of the rain," said
Schwartz, "leading the police to arrest
people on the basis of status or ap-
pearance rather than conduct."
The suit also alleges that the pattern
of enforcement - arrest followed by
~ custody and then summary dismissal -
is also unconstitutional, because the
arrests are made for impermissible
reasons, unrelated to the likelihood of
conviction. The reasons for the arrests
cannot be reviewed by the courts
because the great majority of the cases
are dismissed. (c)
`Over ten years ago, the President's
Commission on Law Enforcement and
Administration of Justice stated that
"While the police are under con-
siderable pressure to contain vice within _
a given community and to keep un-
desirable persons off the streets, the
current practice of using the arrest
power in situations in which there is no
Continued on p. 4
Let Kids
Be Kids
"It wasn't hard for me to join the
Boys' Club. All I had to do was sign a
sheet and pay $3.25. Then I was a
member and now can use all the
facilities any day the club is open," said
Michael Frick, 10, a resident of Santa
Cruz.
"When I was 8 years old, I wanted to
Join the Boys' Club of Santa Cruz. I
went with my mother and some friends.
When we got there, the people said that
they could not accept our applications
because we are girls. I think it's unfair
that I can't go there just because I'm a
girl,"' said Naomi Goldfrank, also 10
and also a resident of Santa Cruz.
Agreeing that such a practice is
unfair, the ACLU of Northern
California filed a lawsuit on May 2
against the Boys' Club of Santa Cruz,
Inc., challenging its policy and practice
of allowing only boys access to the
club's facilities, which include the only
community indoor heated swimming
pool in northern Santa Cruz County, a
gymnasium, game and craft rooms, a
library, and a kitchen. It also has the
only program of supervised after-school
recreation in the county for the 8-to-18
age group. There is no comparable
facility or recreational and educational
program available to girls.
The suit is brought on behalf of
`Victoria Isbister, Naomi Goldfrank,
and Paula Smith, girls who have been
denied access to the club's facilities
because they are girls, and Michael
Frick and Zachary Wormhoudt, two
boys who belong to the club but allege
that its membership policy deprives
them of their right to a _ non-
discriminatory environment.
The children are represented in their
suit by cooperating attorneys Diane E.
Thompson, Susan L. Paulus, Susan M.
Popik, and Edward F. Newman, and
ACLU of Northern California staff
attorneys Margaret C. Crosby, Alan
Schlosser, and Amitai Schwartz.
"The Boys' Club receives. ap-
proximately 15% of its operating funds
from the United Way of Santa Cruz,"
said Diane Thompson, ACLU
cooperating attorney,
membership to half the 8-to-18 year-
olds in the city, namely girls. There is a
law in this state (the Unruh Civil Rights
__ Act) which says that `all persons within
. this state are free and equal, and no
matter what their sex, race, color,
religion, ancestry, or national origin,
are entitled to full and equal ac-
commodations, advantages, facilities,
or services in all business establish-
ments of every kind whatsoever." We're
asking the court to order the Boys' Club (c)
to obey the law and allow girls equal
access to the opportunities enjoyed at
the moment by boys only."
continued on p. 2
"yet it denies -
No. 4
25th Anniversary,
Brown y. Bd. of Ed.
Desegregation
Victory
Arbitrary school district boundary
lines as barriers to desegregation were
pulled down by the California Court of
Appeal in April.
The case, Tinsley v. Palo Alto Uni-
fied School District, was filed because
of the racial imbalance existing among
elementary schools in the Mid-Penin-
sula. A school district with predomi-
nantly black enrollment (Ravenswood)
was surrounded by school districts with
predominantly white enrollments.
Thus, any feasible plan of disegregation
had to include schools outside the
Ravenswood district.
Parents of both white and black ele-
mentary school students brought suit
against the State of California, the
State Board of Education, and the Mid-
Peninsula school districts. The com-
plaint was dismissed in San Mateo
Superior Court because it did not claim
that the racial imbalance was caused by
intentional acts of segregation. The
plaintiffs appealed in the Court of
Appeal and the ACLU of Northern and
Southern California, the NAACP, and
the Los Angeles Center for Law and
Justice filed an amicus or "friend of the
court"' brief in their support.
`The Court of Appeal reversed the
lower court and held that intent to seg-
regate was not the question. The Court
reaffirmed that racial isolation violates
the California Constitution, regardless
of whether the condition is caused by
intentional acts of school officials.
The significance of the decision is
highlighted by the fact that it explicitly
rejected the narrower standards for a
finding of unconstitutional segregation
developed by the Burger Court under
the federal Constitution.
The Tinsley decision underscores the
state's obligation to "eradicate school
segregation regardless of cause."' Thus,
school districts with predominantly
white enrollments cannot turn their
backs on a school district in the same
"geographic area" with an overwhelm-
ingly minority enrollment. In the
court's opinion, ``The accidents of
geography and arbitrary boundary lines
of local government can afford no
Continued on p. 4 ,
- Election Issue -
Ballot on pg. 3
May 1979
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Bombs, Away
Bureaucratic buck-passing almost
stymied the May 5S demonstration
against the Lawrence Livermore Lab,
_ site of the development of such atomic
weapons as the hydrogen and neutron
bombs.
The University of California Nuclear
Weapons Lab Conversion Project
wanted to hold an educational rally and
fair to explain the health and safety
hazards of the Livermore Lab and why
and how the Lab's bomb-making capa-
bilities could be converted to peaceful
research devoted to socially useful pro-
jects such as finding safe energy sources.
Months before the May Sth date, the
Conversion Project asked the Livermore
Lab officials for permission to use the
land behind the Applied Science Labor-
atory. They were told that the decision
would have to be made by U.C. Davis, |
who leases the land from Livermore.
U.C. Davis said no, the authority rested .
with the United States Department of
Energy. DOE said no, the authority be-
longed to the University.
Frustrated by this "`who, me?'' shell
game, the Conversion Project asked the
ACLU of Northern California to find
out where the authority lay. Alan
Schlosser, ACLU staff attorney, wrote
to the University and laboratory offici-
als to pin down who was responsible for
deciding if the Lab Conversion group
could use the land.
The laboratory finally owned up and
allowed the demonstration to take place.
In the meantime, the Direct Action
Committee of the Lab Conversion Pro-
ject had asked for permission to hand
out leaflets at the Livermore Visitors'
Center and the cafeteria of the Lab it-
self explaining why the Lab should con-
vert from weapons-making to peaceful
purposes. The Committee was turned
down by the Laboratory, so they came
back to the ACLU. Schlosser took up
the gauntlet again.
He pointed out that the Lab told its
side of the nuclear story through exhibits
and information at the Visitors' Center
and, since the land is public property,
the Lab Conversion Project had the
right to counter the Lab's point of view
with its own.
The Lab finally said OK to the Pro-
ject's leafletting the Visitors' Center
and the cafeteria.
But the saga is not over. The Lab (c)
Conversion Project has requested space
for a permanent educational exhibit at
the Visitors' Center explaining their
conversion program. At press time,
they are still awaiting an official deci-
sion on their request. If it-is denied, the
Project intends to ask the ACLU-NC to
file suit to establish their right to such a
display.
Kids
from p. 1
The suit asks the court to allow gitls
to participate immediately and fully in -
its activities. The club would not have to
make any major alterations to its
facilities in order to accommodate girls
as members since it has two completely
separate locker rooms with shower and
toilet facilities.
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Wednesday, June 13, 1979.
For your consideration, the following
statements were submitted by the
eleven candidates for election to the
Board of Directors.
ALVIN H. BAUM, JR.
A member of ACLU of Northern
California for over ten years; served
on the Board of Directors four years;
currently serving as Treasurer. Is
Chair of Budget Management and
Development Committee; serves on
Wage and Benefits Committee.
Attorney and city planning consul-
tant; on the Board of Gay Rights
_ Advocates.
I would like to continue as Treas-
urer since we are facing a crossroads:
we either need to increase our money
supply from corporate gifts and
foundation funds or cut back on.
programs. I would like to find new
income for the ACLU so that it can
`-expand its programs. I want to play
an inside role in finding new money
or adjusting to existing funds.
Incumbent: Yes _
Nominated by: Board of Directors
RICHARD (DICK) CRILEY
Student Free Speech movement in
_ Berkeley (1934); ACLU member since
1959; Midwest Director, National
Committee Against Repressive
Legislation (formerly National Com-
mittee to Abolish HUAC) (1960-1976);
Northern California Director, NCARL
(1976 to present); Chairperson,
Monterey County ACLU Chapter (1977
to present); Member, ACLU-NC
Legislative Committee (current); Sub-
poenaed by HUAC... (1959 and 1961)
and by Senate Internal Security
Subcommittee (1955 and 1963);
resident in (Chicago) Black neigh-
borhood, community and civil rights
activist (1957-1976).
I believe that I can contribute to the
development of some ACLU-NC
priorities: chapter building, grass-roots
legislative work,
volvement in community issues (police |
misconduct, etc.) to help achieve the
goal of involving more members in the
ongoing work of the ACLU-NC.
Incumbent: No
Nominated by: Board of Directors
and ACLU in- .
CAROLINA CAPISTRANO
Presently working as administrative
assistant to Senator Nicholas C. Petris
(D-Oakland), area legislation: policy
formulation and steering bills through
the Legislature. Ex-Chair, current
member: Chicano Capital Staff
Association. Member: National La
Raza Lawyers Association, La Comision
Femenil, Sacramento Women in
Politics. Past instructor via Stanford
University Chicano Fellows Program 1)
Soledad Prison, Courses: basic writing,
Chicano Literature, 2) Stanford
University courses: Creative Writing,
Chicana Literature: Chicana Problems,
Community Research Methodologies.
Graduate, Stanford Law School, 1976.
My: concerns. `are needs of disen-
franchised poor, minorities, elderly,
handicapped, Prisoners, and mentally
ill caught up in nightmare insanity of
an unresponsive political/bureaucratic
_ system. Am honored to serve as ad-
vocate for the needs of these individuals
in whatever ways Ican, through work in
legislature and in communty.
Incumbent: No ~
Nominated by: Board of Directors
BEN GINDEN
Many of us in the chapters feel we
would like more representation on the
affiliate board and my candidacy
reflects this feeling.
I have always been interested in Civil
Liberties since before serving as State
Treasurer of the Progressive Party in
1948. Have served as President of the
Jewish Federation of Santa Clara
County, co-chairman of the Martin
Luther King Scholarship Fund at San
Jose State, President of Anti-
Defamation League of Santa Clara
County. My background is that of
merchant seaman, serving as everything
from a wiper to Chief Engineer, before
and during WW II, when I was a
member of the Marine Firemen's Union
and the Marine Engineer's Union.
Postwar, I have been a businessman -
and Realtor, which I presently am.
Incumbent: No
Nominated by: Petition |
1 of Directors Election
JAMES GOODWIN
I have been an active member of the
ACLU of Northern California since
1948. I am currently on the Executive
Committee of the Board and chair-
person of its Communications/Media
Committee; member, Western Regional
NAACP Legal Committee; com-
missioner, California Public Broad-
casting Commission; MALDEF; and
_ trustee, Wright. Institute.
We need to improve communications
with our members and help build
cooperative relationships among the
chapters. Mary Dunlap, upon taking
leave from the Board last year, left us
- with a poem, the last refrain of which
speaks to our concerns if we seek to
effectively protect the Bill of Rights. .
`May our risk-takings for justice
multiply
And may we stand up bravely
For the rights of the poor and the
scared and the lonely
: And for every suffering one who
needs a friend.
`Incumbent: Yes
Nominated by: Board of Directors... ._
ROBERT L. HARRIS
I have a lifetime commitment to
fighting. for civil liberties. My
background in constitutional law
and my past experience as an associ-
. ate editor of the California Law
Review (Boalt Hall) have prepared
me fully to devote considerable effort
to the constant struggle for civil
liberties.
At the present I am one of the
chief attorneys defending the
NAACP in a $4.5 million libel
lawsuit filed by the Oakland Police .
Officers' Association. I am also one
of the attorneys defending the
_ Bayview-Hunter's Point Foundation
in a $50 million libel lawsuit filed
against it and the NAACP by the San
Francisco Police Officers' Associa-
tion.
I am President-Elect of the
National Bar Association and I am
actively involved in numerous
community activities.
Incumbent: No
Nominated by: Board of Directors.
DONNA HITCHINS
I am the Director of the Lesbian
Rights Project and Director of the
Vocational Education Project of Equal
_ Rights Advocates. I am involved in
litigation and community education
. focused on the rights of women and gay
people. Over the last 12 years, I have
been involved in the civil rights/liberties
`struggle, and have seen it as an im-
portant tool in combating oppression
based on race, sex, economics, age, and
politics. I have been a member of the
Equality, Legal, Due Process, and
Personnel committees of the Board.
Because of the continued and in-
tensified intrusion on the rights of
individuals, the ACLU of Northern
California has a dual responsibility: 1)
to aggressively and creatively oppose
these intrusions, and 2) to encourage
others to actively participate in the
struggle.
Incumbent: Yes
Nominated by: Board of Directors
IRIS MITGANG
Background: National Vice-Chair,
National Women's Political Caucus;
Continuing Committee of the Con-
ference, International Women's Year,
Houston; National Board member,
NWPC ERA Fund; Consumer member,
governing body, Alameda-Contra Costa
Health System; Attorney, Oakland-
Walnut Creek (employment discrimi-
nation/family law); Publications on
Immigration; Instructor, legal research,
~-U.C. Davis School of Law; Instructor,
family law, J.F.K. University; Editorial
Board U.C. Davis Law Review; ex-
perienced lobbyist; Legislation, Legal,
and Equality committees member.
Commitment: A - strong feminist
presence to keep the vigil and to expand
our commitment to equal rights,
children's rights, the rights of privacy
and the right to choose; to open the
political and institutional processes to
the under-represented, the under-
served; and to bring political knowledge
and the perspective, commitment, and
energy for change.
I would be honored fo continue
serving. (c)
Incumbent: Yes
Nominated by: Board of Directors
DRUCILLA RAMEY
I have been active in the ACLU since
my law student days. After four years as
a Board member of ACLU-NC, I was
elected, and have since served as chair-
person of the Board for the past year.
As a civil rights lawyer, I am particularly
anxious that we heighten our attack on
the problems raised by societal discrim-
ination against the poor minorities,
women, the elderly, and _ the
handicapped.
We need more representatives of
these groups on our Board, and in the
wake of Proposition 13 and the Bakke
decision, we need, as an organization,
to continue our leadership in the pent
for affirmative action.
I would like the opportunity to con-
tinue my work on and with the Board:
and with the membership of ACLU-
NC.
Incumbent: Yes
Nominated by: Board of Directors
DAVIS RIEMER
I joined the Earl Warren Chapter in
1970, served as Board member,
' President, affiliate representative. On |
affiliate Board for six years, currently
at-large. Committees: Executive,
Budget-Management, Staff Com-
pensation, Privacy. Offices held:
Treasurer.
I have been helpful in establishing
better policies regarding money
management, organizational goals and
problems, and chapter relations. All
still need improvement. We must try to
increase our program. without ex-
ploiting staff financially or allowing
resources to be eroded unwisely. We
must fully utilize and develop the
unique commitment and abilities of
chapters.
There are too few Board members
with both expertise and willingness to
work on these areas. If re-elected, I will -
try to improve them so we can do an
even bigger job of retaining civil
liberties.
Incumbent: Yes
Nominated by: Board of Directors
EMILY SKOLNICK
Veteran ACLU-NC Board member.
and structure of chapter organization.
A founder and board member of the
San Mateo County Chapter.
Former State Board member of
California Council for Civic Unity.
Lifetime member of NAACP. Received
honor award from Japanese-American
Citizens League. Longtime board
member of League of Women Voters.
Lifetime concern for equal rights
spans 1946 chairwomanship of Topeka
Committee (which eventuated in Brown
v. Board of Education) to wide range of
later activities in housing, employment,
and education.
Incumbent: Yes
Nominated by: Board of Directors
, i
Active in development of the concept | Richard (Dick) Criley
| Carolina Capistrano
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g Alvin H. Baum, Jr.
f Ben Ginden
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0x00A7 Robert L. Harris
i Donna Hitchens
g iris Mitgang
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CHAPTERS _
-4e@ e e
Anti-Loitering
intent to submit the
prosecution is deplorable."
The lawsuit seeks to have the or-
dinance declared unconstitutional.
Alternatively, the suit seeks an in-
junction forbidding the arrest of any
person for violating the ordinance in the
absence of a `"`good faith" belief that
prosecution will actually occur and to
prohibit the: police from using the
ordinance for purposes of harrassment.
Drucilla Ramey, law professor and
Chairperson of ACLU-NC Board of
Directors, Dorothy M. Ehrlich,
Executive Director of ACLU-NC, Paul
from p. I
case for
Newton, accountant and member of the ~
ACLU-NC Gay Rights chapter, and
Sanford Jay Rosen, ACLU-NC
' cooperating attorney are the plaintiffs.
Desegregation
ground for discrimination among a
~ state's citizens."'
[The ``fact of segregation" require-
ment of the California Supreme Court
and the "`intent of segregation" require-
ment of the United States Supreme
Court is the issue of a state constitutional
amendment (SCA 2) introduced by .
State Senator Alan Robbins. If the
-amendment is passed by the voters, it
_ from p.
would prevent the state courts from or-
dering desegregation unless it could be
proven that the segregation had been
intentional - a difficult and sometimes
impossible fact to prove. Robbins'
amendment, which has been approved
by the Assembly, will probably come up
for a vote in November. The ACLU of
Northern California is urging the defeat
of SCA 2.]
Again?
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our office here in San Francisco are |
New |
both engaging in massive
Membership Campaigns beginning
June 1. You may end up on one - or
more - of the many lists which we will
be mailing to.
If you receive a letter asking you to
. join the ACLU, it may appear wasteful;
but we actually save money by not
eliminating the names of our current
members from the many lists which
we'll be using during this critical
`campaign.
So if a letter comes in the mail asking
you to JOIN THE ACLU, why not pass
it on to a friendly civil libertarian and
personally ask them to join. Or you may
want to take that opportunity to make
an extra contribution to help us
through these hard times.
Feel A Draft?
If you have a son and if he turns 18 after December 31, 1979, there is a strong
possibility that he will be required to register with the Selective Service (remember
them?).
Next, under already existing law, "as soon as practicable" your son will be
`examined both physically and mentally in order to determine [his] availability for
- induction for training and service in the Armed Forces."
Registration means physicals and classification. |
Inductions cannot be far behind.
A registration measure has cleared its House committee and may come up as
soon as early June on the House floor. And it may very well pass. Here's what you
~ can do about it.
-++ Write your Representative and tell three friends to do the same. Short, per-
sonal letters are good.
+Call your Representative's local district office and ask for an appointment
during the June 1 to June Memorial Day recess. Take three friends with you. Can't
get an appointment? Tell the staff how you feel; have three friends do the same. -
+ Write a letter to the editor. That's right, three friends to do the same.
What happens in Congress may get very technical. Just remember: at this point
there is only one issue - to stop registration. Any other bill (including McClosky's
universal service scheme) is not being seriously considered.
_ If you get any response from your Representative or his staff, call or write
Michael Miller, ACLU-NC, 814 Mission, Rm. 301, SF 94103 [(415) 777-4880], so
he can tell our Washington lobbyists.
To learn more about stopping the draft, join the Civil Liberties Lobby.
NOTE: Chapter board meetings
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B-A-Kk
BOARD MEETING: Thursday,
May 24, 8 p.m., home of Florence
Piliavan, 1520 Arch St., Berkeley.
Information: 415-548-1322.
- ANNUAL MEETING. Wednesday,
June 13, 8 p.m., All Souls Episcopal
Church, Spruce and Cedar Streets,
Berkeley. Court of Appeals Justice
White, speaker. Board election
stands for
Kennsington.)
Gay Rights
BOARD MEETING: Wednesday,
May 30, 7 p.m., ACLU offices, 814
Mission St., San Francisco.
@
Marin
ANNUAL MEETING. Sunday, June
3, 1 p.m., home of Mr. and Mrs.
Roger Kent, 200 Woodland Rd.,
Kentfield. ``Stop the Presses:
Reporters on Trial," First Amend-.
ment meets Sixth with political
columnist and former N.Y. Times
reporter Sidey Zion, Point Reyes
Light publishers and 1979 Pulitzer
and David V. Mitchell, plus U.C.
cations Law, William K. Muir.
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Action...
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CHAPTER CONFERENCE falls in the
fall, this year. Mark calendars for Sept.
28 through 30. The gathering of the
clans takes place, appropriately, in the
Marin Headlands overlooking the
ocean and the San Francisco skyline -
the closest thing we have to Scottish
highlands.
COPS AND CLOBBERS. Santa Clara
Chapter, spurred by Paul Jenson, is
planning a summer project to
document police misconduct. The
Chapter Committee, with blessings
from the NC board, has kicked in $1675
to help .... For several months the hot
news in Marina (near Monterey) has
been how outraged citizens have organ-
ized following an apparent police bru-
tality incident involving five members of
one family. Dick Criley and the
Monterey Chapter are playing a key
role Marin Chapter board
members are wondering about the
recent questionable detainment of five
juveniles. They want answers from the
local law enforcement agency. -
: ae ae 2h
~San Mateo. Information: Danetta
and former criminal attorney Clinton
results to be announced. (B-A-K -
Berkeley-Albany-
Prize winners Catherine C. Mitchell
Berkeley Professor of Communi- s
Kent, Award for Meritorius Service
to Senator Alan Cranston. Board
elections and by-law changes.
Potluck picnic lunch; drink and
dessert provided. $2 per person, $3
per couple.
North Penn
ANNUAL MEETING. Tuesday,
June 19, 8 p.m., Allstate Savings
and Loan, Concar Dr. and S. Grant,
Ervin, 415-344-4352. (North Pen-
insula includes the northern section
of San Mateo County.)
Santa Clara
ANNUAL MEETING. Friday, June
1, 7:30 p.m., San Jose City College
Theater, Moorpark and Bascom
where Freeways 280 and 17 intersect.
Former People's Temple attorney
Charles Geary, speaker; ACLU-NC
Executive Director Dorothy Ehrlich
to be introduced. Refreshments. $1
donation.
BOARD MEETING. Tuesday, June
5, 7:30 p.m., Community Bank
Bldg., 2nd floor, 1111 St. John St.,
San Jose. Information: Paul Jenson.
408-354-6586. :
Sonoma
BOARD MEETING. Thursday,
June 21, 7:30 p.m., Roland-Miller .
Associates, 666 7th Street, Santa
Rosa. Information: Deanna Beeler,
707-528-9941.
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ON A CLEAR DAY. The Sonoma
Chapter's attempt to overturn a local
anti-nude swimming and sunbathing
ordinance has lost round one, despite
the best efforts of local attorneys and
chapter leaders Lynn Young and Chuck |
Jensen. An appeal is planned ....
Sonoma is looking for new board
members, plus volunteers to help with
this summer's picnic (no unclothed
applicants, please). Call Deanna Beeler
at 707-528-9941.
RK
THE STATE OF THE CHURCH is
- apparently well in San Jose where the
city council starts each meeting with a
prayer (no amendments accepted) and
where, according to the local press, |
police sometimes ask miscreants to join
them in prayer. There's even San Jose
Police Chaplaincy program reachable
through the city switchboard. With -
Mike Chatzky in the lead, Santa Clara
Chapter board members are trying for a
little First Amendment enforcement.
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SPRING AND SPRUNG. Spring is
annual meeting time for most ACLU-
NC chapters. See the Calendar if you
don't believe us For sheer
program packing and promise of a good
time, see Marin's annual meeting plans |
... San Francisco was first off the block
in early May with a dinner.