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Peace Navy
- Beats Ban on Protest
The Bay Area Peace Navy was highly visible to spectators during the U.S. Navy's Fleet
Week procession in San Francisco Bay on October 10, thanks to a successful ACLU-NC
challenge to the Navy's proposed ban on the peace protest.
he Bay Area Peace Navy sailed into
: San. Francisco Bay during Fleet
Week on October 10, carrying anti-
war banners and a court order stating that
the U.S. Navy's proposed restrictions on the
peace activists were unconstitutional.
Had the U.S. Navy had its `way, the peace
boats would have had to stay outside of a 75
yard "security zone," and their message
would have been both invisible and inaudi-
ble to spectators on Aquatic Pier.
Government officials claimed that the
security zone was necessary because digni-
taries on the reviewing stand would face an
increased risk of "potential attack by Middle
Eastern terrorists."
In response to an ACLU-NC suit on
behalf on the Peace Navy, U.S. District
Court Judge Alfonso Zirpoli issued an order
on October 8 allowing the peace boats to sail
: Tenants Can Post Mayoral
Campaign Signs
1 at the Parkmerced apartment
complex in San Francisco won the right
to put mayoral campaign signs in the win-
dows of their homes after the ACLU-NC
filed a class action lawsuit in San Francisco
Superior Court on October 14 charging that.
the landlord's prohibition on posting win-
dow campaign signs was _ illegal
unconstitutional. :
The court issued a Temporary Restrain-
ing Order (TRO) allowing the tenants to
post signs prior to the November 3 election,
and set a hearing for a preliminary injunc-
tion on October 30.
The suit was filed on behalf of Nadine
Safadi, a tenant at the Parkmerced Residen-
tial Community and a volunteer in the Art
Agnos for Mayor Campaign, who was
refused permission to put a campaign sign in
the front window of her-apartment. Safadi is
represented by ACLU-NC_ cooperating
attorneys Steven Mayer and Helane Morri-
-son of the law firm of Howard, Rice, Neme-
and
rovski, Canady, Robertson and Falk, and
ACLU-NC staff attorney Alan Schlosser.
Influence voters
"Posting a sign is an important part of the
way | want to campaign for Art Agnos,"
Safadi said at a press conference at the
ACLU-NC office. "I want people to know ~
that I support Art Agnos so they will be
influenced by my support and also want to
vote for him. I think the sign will influence
people who are undecided and who need the
impetus of seeing other people in their com-
munity express their view that Agnos is a
good candidate."
When Safadi sought written permission
from the General Manager of Parkmerced,
according to the terms of her lease, she was
told that she could not post a sign. "Article
25 of your lease was established with a view
to solidifying our tenant constituency by -
continued on p. 3
- sailboats,
within 25 yards of the pier. "I must issue this
order if the constitutional rights of the par-
~ ties are to have any meaning whatsoever,"
Judge Zirpoli said at the hearing.
The suit was filed on behalf of Robert
Heifetz and Thomas Caulfield, co-
_ coordinators of the Bay Area Peace Navy, a
Berkeley-based organization whose purpose
is to use a fleet of watercraft-including
powerboats, yachts, dinghies,
canoes and kayaks-to conduct non-violent
demonstrations on San Francisco Bay in
opposition to militarism and in support of
world peace.
Annual Event
Beginning in 1984, the Peace Navy has
staged demonstrations every October during
~ "Fleet Week," the annual event in which U.S. |
Navy warships enter San Francisco Bay.
The warships enter the Bay simultane-
ously in a long convoy and pass before
assembled crowds of dignitaries, press and
spectators on the pier at Aquatic Park in
San Francisco. As the Navy sails into the
Bay, the Peace Navy sails outward in front of
the pier with banners and posters advocat-
ing peace and opposition to militarism.
According to ACLU-NC_ cooperating
attorney James L. Kaller of the Law Offices
of Jerry E. Berg who, along with ACLU-NC
staff attorney Matthew Coles is litigating the
case, "In 1986, for the first time, naval offi-
cials ordered a 75 yard `security zone' around
the pier prohibiting any watercraft from ~
coming any closer to the pier during the
Navy procession.
"Moreover, the Navy actually imposed a
security zone which exceeded 100 yards-
and enforced it by using Vietnam-era river-
boats," Keller said.
When Caulfield and Heifetz requested a
permit for this year's "Fleet Week" protest, -
scheduled for. Saturday, October 10, they
were told that the Navy would impose the
same 75-yard security zone as in 1986.
` Drowned out songs
Heifetz explained, "Last year, not only did
Navy boats, used to `protect' officials at the
continued on p. 3
Inside
aclu news
2 oct.-nov. 1987.
Bill of Rights Day Celebration
Chief Justice Rose Bird
Vhree pioneering justices of the Cali-
fornia Supreme Court-Chief Jus-..
tice Rose Bird, Justice Cruz Reynoso
and Justice Joseph Grodin-will be honored
with the Earl Warren Civil Liberties Award
at the fifteenth annual ACLU-NC Bill of
Rights Day Celebration.
The keynote speaker will be Daniel
Schorr, political analyst and commentator
for National Public Radio on the Contra-
gate and Bork hearings.
The Celebration, which will be held on
Sunday, December 6, at the Sheraton Palace
Justice Joseph Grodin
Hotel in San Francisco, is the culmination of
the ACLU-NC's annual fundraising
campaigns.
Each year for the past fourteen years, the
Earl Warren Civil Liberties Award has been -
`presented to a person or persons who have
distinguished themselves as champions in
the battle to preserve and extend civil
liberties.
The ACLU-NC Board of Directors
selected the three former justices as this
year's honorees because
"acknowledge them as distinguished jurists
Daniel
66 a betray a source would mean to
dry up many future sources for
many future reporters. It would mean to
betray myself, my career and my life."
This statement, which has become a
classic for journalism students, is that of
Bill of Rights Day Celebration keynote
speaker Daniel Schorr; Schorr will speak
on "Ronald Reagan's Legacy." In 1974,
following a post-Watergate investigation
of CIA and FBI abuses, Schorr pub-
- lished a leaked report from the House
`Intelligence Committee. Risking a jail
sentence rather than identifying the
source of his leak, Schorr-already a
world renowned journalist and political
analyst-set a new standard for the pro-
tection of news sources and freedom of
the press.
Schorr is currently a Senior News
Analyst at National Public Radio in
Washington, D.C., where, in recent
months, his insightful commentaries
have helped guide the listening public
through the complexities of the Congres-
dal and the nomination of Robert Bork.
During Schorr's more than three
decades as a journalist, he has covered the
major domestic and international events
of our time. After serving as a foreign
correspondent for the New York Times
and the Christian Science Monitor,
Schorr joined CBS as a diplomatic cor-
Keynote Speaker
sional hearings on the Iran/ Contra scan-
Schorr
`respondent in 1955. At CBS, he served as
a bureau chief in Moscow and Eastern
- Europe and at the United Nations.
In 1966, he moved to Washington,
D.C., where he covered civil rights and
national economic issues. He _ later
became the chief Watergate correspon-
dent for CBS, winning three Emmy
awards for his coverage.
Schorr also found himself part of the
story he was covering when the Water-
gate investigation disclosed that he was -
on President Nixon's "enemies list," and
was being investigated by the FBI.
For his courageous stand in refusing to
to disclose his source on the House Com-
mittee on CIA and FBI abuses, Schorr
has been the recipient of many civil liber-
ties and journalism awards. His book,
Clearing the Air, is a compelling descrip-
tion of that troubled period.
A former Regents Professor of Jour-
nalism at the University of California at
Berkerley, Schorr helped create Cable
News Network (CNN) in 1980. He
worked at CNN until 1985, and began his
regular commentaries on NPR in 1978.
A highly acclaimed speaker on free-
dom of the press and national security
issues, Schorr addressed the national
ACLU biennial in Philadelphia this
summer on "The Constitution and the
White House: Freedom v. Security."
Rights truly. means,"
it wanted to
Justice Cruz Reynoso
and as members of the state Supreme Court
which played such a pioneering role in the
expansion of civil rights and liberties during
their tenure."
"We strongly believe that these three jus-
tices are outstanding representatives of what
the struggle for civil liberties and the Bill of
said Board Chair
Nancy Pemberton.
The life of Chief Justice Bird, the nation's
first woman Chief Justice of a state Supreme
Court is one that is filled with "firsts." Born
in Arizona, and raised in New York, Bird
graduated from Long Island University and
the University of California Boalt Hall
School of Law. While at Boalt, she received
a Ford Foundation grant to serve as an
intern in the California Legislature, where
- she helped draft a bill, later signed into law,
establishing a statewide testing program for
school children.
In 1966, she was the first woman attorney
hired by the Santa Clara County Public
Defenders Office, later becoming chief of its
appellate division.
Cabinet level
In 1974, newly elected Governor Jerry
Brown appointed Bird Secretary of the
Department of Agriculture, the first woman
to hold a cabinet-level position in the state's
history. In that position, she banned the
short-handled hoe (the cause of severe spinal
injuries among farmworkers) and drafted
the landmark farm labor bill guaranteeing
farmworkers the right to hold secret ballot
union elections.
In 1977, Governor Brown nominated Bird
for the post of Chief Justice of the California
- ACLU-NC to Honor 3 Justices
Supreme Court; she was approved by the
Judicial Council after the first of what was
to become several strident, well- tt
right-wing campaigns against her.
Bird's tenure as Chief Justice was marked
_ by widespread reform of the judicial process.
She also presided over the landmark deci-
sions on the integration of schools, the death .
penalty, abortion rights, freedom of the
press and privacy-opinions which
expanded civil liberties but ired her oppo-
nents who launched a "No on Bird" cam- -
paign to remove her from the bench in 1978
and 1987. The first campaign was unsuccess-
ful; the second, characterized by unprece-
dented viciousness and smear tactics,
achieved its unfortunate goal.
Labor lawyer
Justice Joseph Grodin has a long and
distinguished career in the areas of civil
liberties and labor law. A native Californian,
Grodin graduated from the University of
California at Berkeley in 1951 and Yale Law
School in 1954. After studying comparative
labor law as a Fulbright Scholar at. the
London School of Economics, Justice
Grodin practiced labor law in San Francisco
from 1955 until 1972. During that time, he
served as Chair of the San Francisco Bar
Association committees on labor law and
equal employment and also did pro bono
work for the ACLU, MALDEEF the
NAACP and other civil rights organiza-
tions. In the 1970s he was a leading member
of the ACLU-NC, serving both as a member
of the Board of Directors and as chair of the
Legislative Committee.
When the first state Agricultural Labor
Relations Board was established in 1975, he
was appointed by Governor Pat Brown to
serve on that innovative body. In 1979, Goy-
ernor Jerry Brown appointed him to the
state Court of Appeal and in 1982 he was
named Associate Justice of the California
Supreme Court.
He has previously taught law at the Uni-
versity of Oregon and Stanford University
and is currently on the faculty at Hastings
College of the Law in San Francisco.
First Hispanic
When Governor Jerry Brown appointed
Justice Cruz Reynoso to the Supreme Court
in 1982, he became the first person of His-
panic descent to serve on California's highest -
COUIT.. -
Reynoso was one of eleven children of
- farm worker parents. A graduate of Pomona
College and Boalt Hall School of Law at the
University of California at Berkeley, Justice
Reynoso studied constitutional law at the
National University of Mexico on a Ford
Foundation Fellowship. :
continued on p. 8
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oct.-nov. 1987 3
-_-Legal Briefs
US. `Supreme Court Ends Bilingual Voters Suit
major lawsuit affecting the voting
rights of Spanish- and Chinese-
speaking voters came to a close on October
5, when the U.S. Supreme Court granted
the ACLU's request to vacate as moot the
suit challenging a federal prosecutor's inves-
tigation of bilingual ballot seekers in nine
northern California counties.
According to ACLU-NC staff attorney
Alan Schlosser, "Though this investigation
has ended, the 1986 federal court ruling
declares that language minority voters are
entitled to strict protection against discrimi-
nation. It also indicates that there are limits
on a prosecutor's investigatory power."
The case, Olagues v. Russoniello origi-
nated in 1982 when it was disclosed that
U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello had asked
officials in the nine counties to provide him
with lists of applicants for Chinese and
Spanish language election materials. FBI
and INS agents then investigated those
voters for citizenship.
The probe, which was initiated just prior
to the registration deadline in the 1982 elec-
tion, was challenged by the ACLU, MAL-
Spanish aad Chinese eerie ane ecanie the eee of the USS. Aoriee S probe.
DEF and California Rural Legal Assistance
in a class action suit on behalf of Chinese-
and Spanish-speaking voters and groups
that register minority voters. The ACLU
Peace Navy
continued from p. | 2 :
reviewing stand from our message, swamp a
Greenpeace boat and dump one of its youth-
- ful occupants into the Bay, they also attemp-
ted to drown out the peace songs oe our
Children For Peace boat.
"This is precisely the militarization of our
Bay that we have resisted for over four years.
Our objective is to promote an ecologically
beneficial, peacetime revitalization of the
Bay Area for recreation, commerce and
industry-not to promote false patriotism at
home and illegal covert adventures abroad,"
Heifetz said.
According to Coles, "The Peace Navy's
banners and posters are not large enough to
be read with the naked eye at a distance of 75
yards-much less, the 100 yards enforced
last year. Their boats are not even large
enough to carry banners that could be read
at that distance.
"We sued to ensure that the San Francisco
Bay was not excluded from the guarantees of
the First Amendment," Coles added.
A hearing on a preliminary injunction for
future aquatic demonstrations by the Peace
Navy is scheduled for November 23.
Campaign
Signs |
continued from p. 1
avoiding potential clashes of diverse views of
myriad subjects," General Manager Claude
Scovill wrote Safadi on October 7.
Five minutes before the lawsuit was
announced at the press conference, attor-
neys for Parkmerced called the ACLU to say
that Safadi would be allowed to post her
"Art Agnos for Mayor" sign. That permis-
sion did not extend to other tenants,
however.
According to the Parkmerced lease provi-
sion, tenants can be evicted for posting signs
in their windows. :
Attorney Mayer said, "Parkmerced's pol-
icy barring signs in apartment windows is
illegal. Section 1942.5 of the Civil Code
makes it unlawful to evict a tenant exercising
`any rights under the law.' The lease provi-
sion unreasonably curtails a tenant's funda-
mental right to engage in political
expression in his or her own home.
"There are 9,000 tenants. at Park-
,
merced-this housing complex cannot be an.
isolated enclave where political debate is
stifled," Mayer said.
"We asked for an immediate order from
the court because the mayoral election is
quickly approaching. Each passing day is
another lost opportunity for tenants to
express support for their chosen candidate,"
Mayer added.
Majority renters
"The issue is particularly significant in a.
city like San Francisco where two-thirds of
the residents live in apartments and similar
lease provisions are not uncommon," said
attorney Schlosser. "The ACLU believes
that it is fundamentally unfair to restrict the
right to. participate in political debate by
posting campaign signs solely to
homeowners."
The court order allows tenants to post
mayoral election signs in their apartment
windows and prevents the landlord from
evicting any tenant who does so. Plaintiffs
are also asking the court to declare that the
current lease provision violates the tenants'
rights of free speech and privacy guaranteed
- by statute and the California Constitution
and should be struck down.
(ttt = - ++
charged that the investigation was unwar-
ranted, racist, and in violation of the Consti-
tution and the Voting Rights Act.
Although no prosecutions resulted from
the investigation, the probe had a chilling
effect on minority voters, evidenced by a
drop off in registration in the targeted
communities.
In 1985, the suit was dismissed by a three-
Judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals,
but in 1986 a full panel of the appellate court
Ang Katipunan
reinstated the suit. The majority opinion,
written by Judge Harry Pregerson, said the
investigation chose its targets by race and
national origin in violation of the law, and
that the investigation, if revived, could have
a chilling effect on minority voters.
During the five-year course of the lawsuit,
anew state law was passed making bilingual
ballot applications confidential.
"After the lawsuit was filed, the govern-
ment chose to stop the investigation, and
said it was unlikely that they would do it
again," said Schlosser. "If they do it again,
we will certainly respond in the same way."
Although the 1986 appellate court ruling
is no longer binding precedent, Schlosser
added, "it is still a most persuasive and
significant statement of the rights of lan-
guage minority persons in the Ninth
Circuit."
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Governor Signs Bill
to Ban Patient Dumping
by Marjorie Swartz,
ACLU Legislative Advocate
wo years of hard work and intense
i lobbying by the ACLU and other
members of the Coalition to End
Patient Dumping resulted in a great victory
this year when two bills banning "patient
dumping" passed the state Legislature in
September and were signed into law by the
Governor.
The measures, SB 12 (Maddy) and AB_
214 (Margolin), both include stiff penalties
on doctors and hospitals who transfer or
deny emergency treatment to poor and
uninsured patients. In addition, Maddy's
measure funds emergency care providers
through an increase in traffic fines.
At the end of 1986, the prospect of such
success seemed remote. Assemblyman Burt
Margolin's original patient dumping bill was
defeated in the Senate Appropriations Com-
mittee, largely due to strong opposition .by
the California Medical Association.
A later version of the bill (authored by
Senator Ken Maddy) which provided for
funding from increased traffic fines and
reimbursement from the counties, was
objected to both by the CMA and the coun-
ties. The counties objected to the language
mandating financial responsibility and the
CMA opposed the bill because the county
mandate was too weak. Caught in this
Catch 22, the bill was defeated in the Senate
on the last day of the session.
Grassroots pressure
But the Coalition did not give up. Rather
it intensified its grassroots pressure by visit-
ing legislators, writing letters, and generat-
ing stories and editorials in the media. As
well, new tragedies resulting from patient
dumping appeared, making it more and
more difficult for legislators to pretend that
this was a problem that could be ignored.
In January, the Coalition again intro-
_ duced a bill, AB 214 (Margolin), with the
same strict transfer provisions and penalties
for patient dumping.
That same month, a new case in Alameda
County hit the headlines. William Trumbull
went to the Hayward Hospital Emergency
Room complaining of chest pain and severe ~
shortness of breath. He was admitted after
persuading the staff to accept a deposit of
$576 instead of the $1,000 they initially
requested. Trumbull was discharged the
next day after doctors found no evidence of
-a heart attack. However, his blood gases
were not tested, despite that fact that hospi-
tal procedures called for such tests when
there are indications of respiratory trouble.
According to a physician familiar with the
case, such a test would have almost certainly
detected the massive clot in his lung.
Suffocation
Trumbull was charged $2,000 for the one-
day stay. His family reported that he was
discharged after expressing concern about
being able to pay the bill. He was extremely"
weak and short of breath upon discharge
and had to sit down twice on the way to his
car. Fifteen hours later he collapsed and died
in his home. The blood clot in his lung
blocked the flow of blood to his heart from
his lung, suffocating and killing him.
By this time the Coalition had grown to
almost 80 organizations, including civil
rights groups, health providers, public inter-
Unabated medical crisis .
Hospitals' dumping .
of patients increase!
Se aw paler : ed
est organizations, labor unions, religious
groups and local governments. Trumbull's
family offered a financial contribution to the
coalition in his memory, which was used to
publish a brochure about the tragedy of
patient dumping.
While the grassroots efforts: were broa-
dened and intensified throughout the state,
different aspects of Margolin's measure, and
a bill introduced by Senator Maddy includ-
ing the funding provisions, were hammered
out in detail by various legislative commit-
tees, lobbyists for the ACLU, the Coalition,
the CMA, the counties and the Department
of Health Services.
Even late into the session, the prognosis
was not good and spirits took a nose-dive
when it looked like the bills were at an
impasse. But on September 4, Margolin's
bill passed a key hurdle. With a vote of 10-0,
it passed the Senate Appropriations Com-
mittee, the same Committee which had
defeated it 4-4 last year.
On September 10, SB 12 passed the
Assembly 76-3, the following day, AB 214
passed the Senate 37-0. Both bills were
signed by the Governor. _
This package is one of the most signifi-
cant pieces of legislation advancing civil
rights of the poor signed by the Governor
who is notorious for vetoing such legislation.
It is truly a credit to the hard work of the
people and organizations involved that this
life-and-death issue was not allowed-to die.
The Coalition Against Patient Dumping produced this highly effective brochure to
successfully-push state legislation.
_ Every month that goes by
without an effective law to stop
patient dumping abuses in |
California ...
William Trumbull, June 23, 1959 - January 6, 1987
Californians like
William Trumbull are
paying with their tpes
|IMMIGRATION
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REFORM ACT
EMPLOYER
SANCTION
AND
DISCRIMINATION
PROHIBITIONS
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Employers and their Advocates
Immigration Reform Act, Em-
ployer Sanctions and Discrimina-
tion Prohibitions: A Guide for
Workers, Employers and Their
Advocates is a new brochure by the
national ACLU Immigration and Alien's
Rights Task Force.
The 24-page brochure, written in a
question-and-answer format, explains
the complicated provisions of the new
immigration law and answers com-
monly asked questions about
employer sanctions and discrimination
provisions.
The English language edition is
currently available from the national
ACLU. A Spanish language edition will
be published in the fall. :
For individual or bulk copies writ
to: Immigration and Aliens' Rights
Task Force, ACLU, 132 W. 43rd
Street, New York, NY 10036 or call
212-944-9800.
Volunteer Complaint
Counselors Needed
A challenging volunteer position
awaits you as an ACLU-NC "Complaint
Counselor"-taking complaint calls and
requests for assistance, referrals and
information, and helping to screen cases
for potential ACLU lawsuits.
The position requires volunteering one
(or more) day a week, from 10 AM to 4
PM from people who can made at least a
6 month commitment. Patience, compas-
sion, concern for civil liberties and civil
rights are necessary. Legal knowledge
helpful, but not required. Please call 415/
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aclu news
oct.-nov. 1987 5
Matthew Coles, New Staff Attorney
"Ey the last nine years I've been trying :
to do public interest law in a private
firm-maybe that's why coming to work at _
99
the ACLU seems like `coming home' to me,
said attorney Matthew Coles,
sought after `fourth attorney' who joined the
ACLU-NC Legal Department on Sep-
._ teniber 1.
-"We are proud to have Matthew Coles on
-our staff," said ACLU-NC Executive Direc-
tor: Dorothy Ehrlich. "He is a seasoned
advocate and an excellent attorney who has
already contributed so much to gay ee
and civil rights in our community."
Coles, a 1977 graduate of Hastings Col-
lege of the Law in San Francisco, is noted as
the author of the 1978 San Francisco ordi-
nance banning discrimination on the basis
of sexual orientation. That pioneering law
later became the model for similar ordinan-
ces in Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oakland and
_ Other cities around the nation. -
~ Coles's authorship of anti-discrimination
legislation is indeed quite renowned. He ~
drafted San Francisco's domestic partners'
benefits law, adopted bythe Board of Super-
visors in 1982 but subsequently vetoed by
Mayor Dianne Feinstein; he helped write the
domestic partnership ordinance enacted by
the City of Berkeley. Coles also drafted the
San Francisco ordinance banning discrimi-
nation against people with AIDS, and
helped draft ABI which would have prohi-
bited discrimination on the basis of sexual
orientation in employment ene the:
state.
Marital Status -
As a cooperating attorney with the
_ ACLU-NC, Coles has been working since
1984 with staff attorney Margaret Crosby on
the case of Brinkin v. Southern Pacific,
which he recently argued before the Court of
Appeal. He is representing Larry Brinkin, a
Gay Rights Project
Seeks Information
he Lesbian and Gay Rights Project of
the ACLU Foundation in New York is -
now in the process of collecting information
about the current status of partnership
rights and benefits for lesbians and gays.
From this research it will compile a packet to
`send to lawyers who inquire about the issue
of partnership benefits for gays, including a
list of possible expert witnesses.
The Project staff would like to receive
information about. any city or state laws
referring to the partnership rights of lesbi-
ans, gays or heterosexuals in non-traditional
relationships. .
They are also interested in knowing of
benefit provisions for. gays: and non-
traditional domestic partners in insurance
plans, union contracts, employer programs,
etc.
Any statements on alternate families or -
non-traditional and gay partnerships issued
by religious groups or professional associa-
tions are of special interest.
And, they are compiling a bibliography of
social science literature on gay adoption and
foster parent rights.
Please send such information to fore.
than Ned Katz, Lesbian and Gay Rights
Project, ACLU, 132 W. 43rd Street, New
York, N.Y. 10036.
the long |
gay employee of SP who was. denied the 3-
day funeral leave provided in his union con-
tract when his lover of I! years died.
"Marital status has been used constantly
to discriminate against gay people," Coles
said. "Yet the Fair Employment and Hous-
ing Act-amended in 1976 to include mari-
tal status-no more allows discrimination
against the unmarried than it allows the
reverse."
Coles''s desire to join the ACLU staff
resulted from his "perceptions of changes in
society in the last decade and also my per-
ceptions of the oe in the ACLU," he
said.
"Over the last ten years, I think the key
thing that has changed in U.S. society is the
acceptability of selfishness, the idea that it's
OK to say `All for me, and I'm not going to
worry about anyone else.'
Social Justice
"During this same period, it seemed to me
that the ACLU, while continuing its tradi-
tional First Amendment legal challenges,
also began to focus more on social justice
issues-immigration, drug testing, AIDS
testing. These are the issues that are also
high on my agenda."
In recent years, Coles has dealt increas-
ingly with the impact of AIDS. For his
clients, he worked on the nitty-gritty-and
tragic-legal issues of wills, health insurance
and job discrimination. He also campaigned
vehemently against Proposition 64, the 1986
LaRouche initiative which would have
allowed massive civil liberties violations of
people with AIDS.
"During this time, the ACLU was decid-
ing that it should do more about AIDS, and -
I will be focusing on this work," Coles said.
But Coles first ACLU case as a staff
attorney is, ironically, a "traditional First.
Amendment" case. On October 8, he won a
challenge in federal court against the U.S.
Navy's bar on the Bay Area Peace Navy's
acativities protesting militarism.
The Navy was trying to keep the peace
activists from sailing their canoes, kayaks,
and `sailboats with peace banners near
Aquatic Pier during the Fleet Week naval
procession.
The Navy's reason for restricting the pro-
testers' First Amendment rights? "They
claimed the peace boats may be a cover for
Iranian and Libyan attack squads," Coles
laughed. "Maybe it's not so traditional a case
after all."
Coles, an adjunct professor at PP ain Z
College of the Law and a visiting professor at
UC Berkeley's School of Public Policy, will
begin full-time work at -the ACLU on
November | when he finishes Ee fall teach-.
ing schedule.
HH
Bork Confirmation Defeated
By a vote of 58-42, the U.S. Senate on October 23 voted down President Reagan's
nomination of Robert Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court.
This major victory was due in large part to the unified action of the ACLU and many
national, regional and local civil rights, minority rights, women's, disabled, and labor
organizations who thoroughly researched and strongly articulated Bork's backward stance
_ on key civil liberties issues.
The spirited anti-Bork rally at the San Francisco Federal Building, pictured above with
ACLU-NC Executive Director Dorothy Ehrlich at the microphone, was one of many
activities-which ranged from tabling and letter writing to public speaking and newspaper
ads-supported by ACLU-NC members throughout northern California in the effort to
block the confirmation. The October 5 rally, sponsored by the Coalition for Civil Rights,
also featured Lt. Governor Leo McCarthy, San Francisco Labor Council leader Walter
Johnson, Dr. Julianne Malveaux of the NAACP-and an "understudy Supreme Court"
(pictured above) provided by the San Francisco Mime Troupe.
Union Maid
ACLU-NC
Attorneys
iO.
Be Honored
AS. staff attorney. Margaret
Crosby and cooperating attorney
Arthur Brunwasser will be honored at a
reception at the Palace of Fine Arts in
San Francisco on Monday, November
16, sponsored by the Bergman/
Ramirez Defense Committee.
The two attorneys successfully
appealed a $1.7 million libel judgment
entered against reporters Raul Ramirez
and Lowell Bergman for criticizing law
enforcement officials in a series of arti-
ciles they wrote for the San Francisco
Examiner about a Chinatown murder
case.
The reception will follow an event at
the same site celebrating the tenth
anniversary of the Center for Investiga-
tive Reporting featuring a screening of
The Secret Society, a BBC documen-
tary confiscated by the British govern-
ment, and a forum with the producer of.
the film, Duncan Campbell, Mike Wal-
lace of "Sixty Minutes" and other distin-
guished journalists.
"We wanted to use this event to
| honor the ACLU-NC attorneys who
fought so hard to defeat a libel judgment
that would have had a tremendously
chilling effect on investigative journal- .
ism in this area,' said reporter Ramirez,
who is on the Board of the Center.
For more information, please call
Center for Investigative Reporting at
415/543-1200.
New ACLU |
Board Officers
ACLU-NC Officers
At its September meeting, the ACLU-NC
Board of Directors elected the following
officers: Nancy Pemberton, Chair; Anne
Jennings, Vice-Chair (Chair of the Field
Committee); Steve Mayer, Vice-Chair:
(Chair of the Legal Committee); Jim
Morales, Vice-Chair (Chair of the Legisla-
tive Committee); Davis Riemer, Vice-Chair
(Chair of the Development Committee);
Tom Lockard, Treasurer; Barbara Brenner,
National Board Representative.
_ All of these officers will sit on the Execu-
tive Committee of the affiliate along with -
Mary Lou Breslin, Marlene De Lancie, Lee
Halterman, Francisco Lobaco, Steven
Owyang, and Fran Strauss.
National ACLU
Anne Jennings, ACLU-NC Vice-Chair
and Chair of the Field Committee, was
elected to the Board of Directors of the
National ACLU as an at-large member.
ACLU-NC_ Development Committee
Chair Davis Riemer was elected as one of
three delegate-elected members of the 1989
Biennial Conference Committee.
6 7 aclu news
oct.-nov. 1987
Japanese American Internment
_ House Passes Bill for Redress
n 1942, Gordon Hirabayashi violated
racially-based curfew laws and refused
to report for internment in a relocation
camp for Japanese-Americans. He spent
more than two years in prison for his
defiance of the wartime order. But in Sep-
tember, Hirabayashi was vindicated-both
by the U.S. Court of Appeals and the House
of Representatives.
On September 29, the Ninth' Circuit
Court of Appeals overturned Hirabayashi's
misdemeanor curfew violation, agreeing
with an earlier court ruling that the mass
imprisonment was not a military necessity.
"On this bicentennjal of the U.S. Consti-
_tution, this is most appropriate, to get some
of those violations of the Constitution cor-
rected, for my sake, but also for the sake of all
Americans," said Hirabayashi, who is a
retired Professor Emeritus of Sociology at
the University of Alberta.
In 1983, the ACLU-NC honored Hira-
bayashi along with Fred Korematsu and
Minoru Yasui with the Earl Warren Civil
liberties Award for their courageous
defiance of the wartime internment and
their 40-year battle to reverse their
convictions.
Korematsu, who had been represented by
the ACLU-NC before the U.S. Supreme
Court in 1943, won a reversal in U.S. Dis- (c)
trict Court in 1985. Yasui died before his
claim could be resolved, but his widow, True
Yasui, is pursuing his case before the U.S.
Supreme Court.
Redress Bill
On September 17, the 200th anniversary
of the U.S. Constitution, the House of
Representatives passed HR 442, the Civil
Liberties Act of 1987, authorizing payments
of $20,000 to Japanese Americans who were
interned during World War II and apologiz-
ing on behalf of the people of the United
States for the evacuation, relocation, and
internment.
The bill, spearheaded by San Jose Con-
gressman Norman Mineta and Sacramento
Congressman Robert Matsui, who were
themselves interned in the camps, states that
the internment was based on racial prejudice
and wartime hysteria.
ACLU Washington lobbyist Wade Hender-: (c)
son played a key role in the passage of the
bill, which eventually gained 166 co-
sponsors in the House. ACLU-NC Execu-
tive Director Dorothy Ehrlich, speaking at a
press conference at the Japanese American
Citizens League moments before the bill was
passed, said, "This represents a long overdue
step to correct past injustice and violations
of constitutional rights suffered by persons
of Japanese ancestry during World War II."
Urging people to write to Senators Alan
Cranston and Pete Wilson to support the
companion Senate measure, Ehrlich said,
"One hundred and twenty thousand Japa-
nese Americans were forcibly uprooted from
their homes in the West Coast and placed
into concentration camps for up to four
years without due process.
"Tronically, thousands emerged from the
humiliation of the camps to serve with honor
and distinction in the U.S. military, many
giving their lives for this country on the
battlefields of Europe and Asia while their
parents and families remained imprisoned
here," Ehrlich said.
Speaking at a similar press conference in
San Jose, Chris Beraldo of the ACLU Santa _
Clara Chapter said, "Even though no act
can give back all the years we took from the
internees, the passage of the act at least
acknowledges that there was a great injus-
tice done and provides at least some measure
of compensation."
"T only wish that the 20,000 seniors who
are dead now could have heard this," said
Tom Nakaji, an 85-year-old retired farmer
who spent three years in camps in Arkansas.
H
Photos (Clockwise from top) 1. In 1983,
Fred Korematsu, Minoru Yasui, and Gor-
don Hirabayashi (I. to r.) launched their
lawsuits seeking to overturn their wartime
convictions for violating the military curfew
and relocation order forced on. Japanese
Americans. 2. Over 120,000 Japanese
Americans were interned in the camps. 3. .
The "relocation center" at Tule Lake.
Courtesy of JACL
ltems Wanted
Are you looking to rid yourself of
spare office equipment cluttering up a
foyer or garage? The ACLU can help!
We are looking for donations of the
following items:
VCR Monitor (portable) (c)
IBM Selectric typewriters
TV/VCR stand
Oscillating electric fans
Filing Cabinets (legal size)
_2-drawer and 4-drawer
Portable heaters
Big plants.
If you can donate any of this equip-
ment to the ACLU-NC, please call Mila
De Guzman at 415/621-2493.
Smyser
Lair
Abortion Funds:
Tenth Anniversary of the Death
of Rosie Jimenez
Luz Alvarez-Martinez (center, speaking), Dorothy Ehrlich, Mary Luke and Reverend
Kim Smith (1. to r.) pledged to continue the fight for freedom of choice for all women at
a press conference commemorating the death of Rosie Jimenez.
66 day, we understand and mourn the
death of Rosaura Jimenez ten years
ago--and we pledge ourselves to fight for
full funding for abortion so that poor
women, women of color and teenagers no
longer have to choose sterilization or dan-
gerous, back alley abortions," said Dr.
Melanie Tervalon, Chair of the Reproduc-
tive Rights Access Project.
Tervalon was speaking at a press confer-
ence at the ACLU-NC on October 5, a day
designated by the Northern California Pro-
Choice Coalition for activities in commemo-
~ ration of the death of Rosie Jimenez, the
first victim of the cutoff of federal funding
for abortion.
_ Also speaking at the press conference
were ACLU-NC_ Executive - Director
Dorothy Ehrlich, Planned Parenthood
Director Mary Luke, Luz Alvarez-Martinez
of the National Latina Health Organization
and Reverend Kim Smith of the Religious
Coalition for Abortion Rights.
Ehrlich blasted the California Legislature
for "sacrificing the health and lives of poor
women in California" by cutting MediCal
funds for abortion from the Budget Act and
for "targeting another group of vulnerable
women-teenagers-by passing .a_ law
requiring parental consent for abortions.
The ACLU-NC will file a lawsuit to chal-
lenge the parental consent measure, which
was signed by the Governor in October,
before it goes into effect in January 1988,
_ Ehrlich said.
Alvarez-Martinez charged that health
issues of Latina women have not been
addressed by federal, state and local govern-
ments.
women-health care providers, workers,
mothers and activists-will be held inthe
Bay Area in the spring to mobilize around
these issues.
The day's events began with "human bill-
boards" at key commuter offramps in San
Francisco and the East Bay during the
morning rush hour. A networking reception
for pro-choice activists was held in the even-
_- ing, followed by a procession and candlelight
vigil at the State Building protesting attacks
on reproductive rights.
The Coalition announced plans for future
' work to restore abortion funding, challenge
the parental consent law and mobilize for
reproductive rights for all women. As Reve-
rend Smith summarized, "Class, race and
economic ability are no? criteria for the right
to choose."
A national conference of Latina -
Attacks on
Salvadoran
Refugees
Yanira Corea, a Salvadoran refugee who
was kidnapped, raped and tortured by
death-squad style attackers in Los Angeles
in July, spoke about her ordeal at a press
conference in San Francisco City Hall in
September. (c)
Corea, who is represented by the ACLU
of Southern California in her efforts to-
expose the recent wave of violence against
Salvadoran and Guatemalan refugees in
Los Angeles, was joined at the press confer-
ence by Board of Supervisors President
Nancy Walker, Elaine Elinson of the
ACLU-NC and Barbara Johnson of the
San Francisco Sanctuary Covenant.
"The ACLU's Political Asylum Project
has been documenting the deaths and dis-
appearances of Salvadorans who are
Ric Rocamora/ Ang Katipuanan
deported to their homeland," Elinson said,
"to monitor the situation and support the
passage of the Moakley-DeConcini Bill
which would allow Salvadoran refugees to
remain in the United States.
"What we see with Yanira's case is that
that is not enough. The death squads are
now terrorizing refugees right in the streets
of our own cities," Elinson said.
Supervisor. Walker said that she would
ask Police Chief Jordan to appoint an
officer in the Department who could be
contacted in case of any such attacks in San
Francisco. .
aclu news
oct.-nov. 1987
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He served as Staff Secretary to Governor
Pat Brown and later as Associate General
Counsel with the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission in Washington,
D.C. From 1969 to 1972, he was the Execu-
tive Director of California Rural Legal
Assistance. Following a stint of teaching law
at the University of New Mexico, Justice
Reynoso was appointed Associate Justice of
the Court of Appeal for the Third Appellate
District in Sacramento. He served on the
state Supreme Court from 1982 to 1987.
Justice Reynoso is currently in private
practice with the Los Angeles law firm of
O'Donnell and Gordon.
Beacon
"On election night 1986, after a vicious
campaign, we lost three justices of a state.
`Tights
Supreme Court that had been a beacon for _
over forty years for the expansion of civil
and individual liberties," said
Pemberton. :
"At our Bill of Rights Day Celebration,
we want to honor these three courageous
Justices who fought to maintain the inde-
pendence of the judiciary and who rejected
the notion, as Chief Justice Bird put it, that
judges should `put their moistened fingers to
the wind, and rule accordingly."
The Bill of Rights Day Celebration will
be held at the Sheraton Palace Hotel in San
Francisco on Sunday, December 6; pro-
gram at 5 PM (no-host reception at 4 PM):
Tickets for the event are $12 and are avail-
able from the ACLU-NC. Call 415/
621-2493 or use the order form in this issue.
Enclosed is my payment of $
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15th Annual
Bill of Rights Day Celebration
Presentation of
Ful Warren Civil Liberties Award to
Chief Justice Rose Bird
Justice Joseph Grodin
Justice Cruz Reynoso
Keynote Speaker -
Daniel Schorr
Writer, Political Analyst, NPR Commentator
Sunday, December 6 5:00 PM
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- Chapter Calendar
Chapter Meetings
_B.A.R.K. CHAPTER MEETING: (Usually
fourth Thursday) Volunteers are needed to
staff hotline. Contact Florence Piliavin,
415-848-5195.
EARL WARREN CHAPTER MEETING:
(Third Wednesday) Sumitomo Bank, 20th
and Franklin Streets, Oakland. Contact Rose
Bonhag, 415-658-7977. Please call Rose if you
left anything at the potluck.
FRESNO CHAPTER MEETING: (Usually
third Tuesday) Tuesday, November 17, 5:30
p.m. Planned Parenthood Office. Contact
Mindy Rose for details: 209-486-7735.
GAY RIGHTS CHAPTER MEETING:
(Usually first Tuesday) Tuesday, November 10
(note change due to Election Day) and
December I, 7 p.m., ACLU-NC, 1663 Mis-
sion Street, Suite 460, San Francisco. Contact
Doug Warner: 415-621-3900. Contact Doug .
Warner about chapter table reservations at
Bill of Rights Day Celebration.
MARIN COUNTY CHAPTER MEET-
ING: (Third Monday) 7:30 pm. Citicorp
Bank, 130 Throckmorton Avenue, Mill Val-
ley. Contact Eileen Siedman, 415-383-0848.
MID-PENINSULA CHAPTER MEET-
ING: (Usually fourth Wednesday) All Saints
Episcopal Church, 555 Waverly, Room 15,
Palo Alto. Contact Harry - Anisgard,
415-856-9186.
MONTEREY CHAPTER MEETING:
(Usually fourth Tuesday) October 27 and
November 24, 7:30 p.m. Monterey Library,
Pacific and Jefferson Streets, Monterey. Con-
tact Richard Criley, 408-624-7562.
MT. DIABLO CHAPTER MEETING:
(Usually third Wednesday) Contact Lowell
Richards, 415-939-ACLU.
NORTH PENINSULA - CHAPTER
MEETING: (Second Monday) Contact Bob
Delzell, 415-343-7339. Bill of Rights Cam-
paign Phone Nite: Monday, October 26.
SACRAMENTO VALLEY CHAPTER
MEETING: (Usually second Wednesday)
7:30 pm. County Administration Building,
7th and I Streets, Main Floor Conference
Room, Sacramento. Contact Joe Gunter-
man, 916-447-8053.
SAN FRANCISCO CHAPTER MEET-
ING: (Usually fourth Tuesday) Contact Mar-
~ ton Standish, 415-863-3520. Bill of Rights
Campaign Phone Nite: Monday, November 9.
SANTA CLARA CHAPTER MEETING:
(Usually first Tuesday) Contact Walter
Krause, 408-258-7963.
SANTA CRUZ CHAPTER MEETING:
(NOTE CHANGE: Third Wednesday) Con-
~ tact Bob Taren, 408-429-9880.
`SONOMA
CHAPTER MEETING:
(Usually third Thursday) The Roseland Law
Center, 1680 Sebastopol Road, Santa Rosa.
Contact Colleen O'Neal, 707-575-1156. Wed-
nesday, October 28, 7:30 p.m., Speaker Daniel
Sheehan, on-Our Secret Government, Santa
Rosa Vets. For more information call Peace
Center, 707-575-8902. Join with us in assisting
the Christic Institute in their suit against the
secret government. Contact June Swan,
707-546-7711.
STOCKTON CHAPTER MEETING:
(Third Wednesday) Contact Eric Ratner,
209-948-4040 (evenings).
YOLO COUNTY CHAPTER MEETING:
(Usually Third Wednesday) Contact Dan
Abramson, 916-446-7701.
Field -
Committee Meetings
PRO-CHOICE TASK FORCE: (en Wed-
nesday) Wednesday, November 4, 6:00 pm. ~
ACLU office, 1663 Mission Street, Suite 460,
San Francisco. Contact Marcia Gallo for
more information: 415-621-2494.
`RIGHT TO KNOW/RIGHT TO DIS-
SENT: (Second Tuesday) Tuesday, November
10, 7:00 pm. ACLU Office. Guest speaker:
Duncan Campbell, British journalist whose -
BBC documentary "The Secret Society" was
banned and confiscated by the British govern-
ment under the Official Secrets Act. Contact
Marcia Gallo, 415-621-2494.
IMMIGRATION WORKING GROUP:
(Fourth Thursday) Organizing for National
_ Day of Justice: Thursday, November 5; Com-
munity Forum; Friday, November 6: Press
Conference and protest at INS office. Contact
Marcia Gallo, 415-621-2494.
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