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Volume LIV
October/November 1990
No. 7
Lyon and Martin to be Honored at
Rights Celebration
n Sunday, December
9, lesbian rights pio-
neers Phyllis Lyon
and Del Martin will be hon-
ored with the Earl Warren
Civil Liberties Award at the
ACLU-NC 18th annual Bill of
Rights Day Celebration. The
event, which will be held at
the St. Francis Hotel on Union
Square in San Francisco, is
the culmination of the ACLU-
NC Foundation's annual fund-
raising campaigns.
The keynote speaker will
be Professor Derrick Bell, the
renowned civil rights attorney
who resigned his position at
Harvard Law School earlier
this year to protest the law
school's failure to grant tenure
to any woman of color. The
Lola Hanzel Award for
Courageous Advocacy will be
presented posthumously to
ACLU-NC activist Douglas
Warner.
Singer/songwriter Ronnie
Gilbert, formerly of the
Weavers, and lan Shoales of
Lesbian rights pioneers Del Martin (1) and Phy
Award at the Bill of Rights Day Celebration on December 9.
is Lyon will receive the 1990 Ear
movement, the civil and
human rights movement, and
other campaigns for social
justice.
A couple for almost 40
years, the collaboration of
Lyon and Martin paved the
way for a generation of les-
bian and gay activists. In
1955, they joined with six
other lesbians in San
Francisco to found the
Daughters of Bilitis, the first
international lesbian organi-
zation. Because of the viru-
lent homophobia of the
times, the dates, times and
locations of the meetings
were kept secret - there was
always the possibility of
police raids.
Martin served as presi-
dent of the Daughters of
Bilitis from 1957-60 and
Lyon in 1962. Under their
leadership, the Daughters
organized lesbians and gay
men and helped to establish
an identity as a persecuted
minority. They also set ovt to
change the views, beliefs and
arre Ci 1 Liberties
Ruth Mountaingrove
Duck's Breath Mystery
Theatre will provide entertain-
ment.
Earl Warren Award
Each year for the past seventeen years,
the Earl Warren Civil Liberties Award has
been presented to a person or persons who
have distinguished themselves as champi-
ons in the battle to preserve and expand
civil liberties.
The work of Del Martin and Phyllis
Lyon has carved a path for one of the most
important civil liberties struggles of the
past quarter century; because of their
devotion to justice, equality and liberation,
the movement for lesbian and gay rights
not only grew in strength and purpose but
also became linked to the women's rights
First Amendment Victory
for Bay Area Peace Navy
n September 14, the U.S. Court
of Appeals in San Francisco
upheld a lower court ruling strik-
ing down restrictions the U.S. Navy had
imposed on an armada of sea-going Fleet
Week protesters. The court agreed with
the U.S. District Court that the Navy's
restrictions violated the First Amendment.
_ Applauding the decision, ACLU-NC
staff attorney Matthew Coles said, "We
sued to make sure that the San Francisco
Bay is covered by the First Amendment.
The court says it is, so we are happy."
The Peace Navy, a flotilla of nearly
100 small vessels, has been holding Fleet
Week demonstrations in the Bay since
1984. During Fleet Week, warships enter
the Bay in a long convoy and pass before
assembled crowds on the shore and press
and public officials on the pier at Aquatic
Park in San Francisco. As the Navy sails
into the Bay, the Peace Navy sails out,
passing in front of the pier with banners
and posters advocating peace and opposi-
tion to militarism.
In 1986, the U.S. Navy barred the
Peace Navy from entering a 75-yard
"security zone" around the reviewing
stand at Aquatic Park. The restrictions -
enforced by Vietnam-era river boats -
rendered the group's peace songs inaudi-
ble and banners unreadable by the specta-
tors on the pier.
When the Navy imposed the same
restrictions in 1987, the ACLU-NC filed a
lawsuit in U.S. District Court on behalf of
the Bay Area Peace Navy and its coordina-
tors, Robert Heifitz and Thomas Caulfield.
The plaintiffs were represented by Coles
and ACLU-NC_ cooperating attorney
James Kaller of the Law Offices of Jerry
E. Berg. On October 8, two days before
the 1987 Fleet Week demonstration, U.S.
District Court Judge Alfonso Zirpoli
issued an order allowing the peace boats to
sail within 25 yards of the pier.
Anti-war banners
That year, the Peace Navy sailed into
San Francisco Bay during Fleet Week car-
rying anti-war banners and a court order
stating that the Navy's restrictions were
unconstitutional.
The government appealed the decision
and the case was argued before the Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals on June 5, 1989.
The September 14 opinion, authored by
Judge William Canby, upheld the District
Court's ruling.
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Continued on page 4
Ballot Propositions
The ACLU-NC takes the following positions on
state and local ballot initiatives:
labor contracts and no entity with reg-
ulatory powers.
eran ie
Proposition 129: Crimes/Taxation/
Bonds- NO
This measure, sponsored by
Attorney General Van De Kamp, is
similar to Proposition 115 which was
passed by the voters in June and also
opposed by the ACLU (see story p.
5). In addition, the measure calls for
law enforcement anti-drug programs,
contains several provisions affecting
criminal defendant privacy and due
process rights, and issues bonds for
correctional and drug treatment facili-
ties. It also attempts to clarify state
privacy rights as they relate to repro-
ductive choice.
Proposition 133: Drug Enforcement and
Prevention/Taxes/Prison Terms - NO
This measure would prohibit
granting "good time" for prisoners
accused of certain crimes and also
calls for increased sentences. The
measure, also called the "Safe Streets"
initiative, is sponsored by Lt.
Governor Leo McCarthy.
Proposition 139: Prison Inmate Labor -
NO
This Governor Deukmejian-
sponsored measure would allow state
and county jails to contract out
inmate labor. The inmates would
have no control over working condi-
tions or the ability to unionize, strike
or negotiate their employment status.
A wide range of bad working condi-
tions could develop because there are
no standardized guidelines-for inmate
- Proposition 144: Prison Bond Measure
-NO
As with previous ballot measures
on prison bonds, the ACLU-NC
opposes this measure. The ACLU-
NC supports money being devoted to
alternatives to incarceration and for
drug treatment programs.
Proposition 147: Bonds for County Jails
and Youth Facilities - NO
This measure, which includes $200
million in new money for jails, is
inconsistent with ACLU-NC policy
(see Proposition 144 above.)
Proposition 151: Bonds for Child Care
`Centers - NO
The ACLU-NC_ opposes | this
measure as it would provide state
funding to church-affiliated child care
facilities and thus violates the separa-
tion of church and state.
San Francisco
Proposition K: Domestic Partners -
YES
This measure, proposed by
Supervisor Harry Britt, provides a
new tool in the movement for Lesbian
and gay rights by providing that any
two unmarried, unrelated people over
18 who live or work in San Francisco
can choose to become domestic part-
ners by filing a notarized statement at
City Hall. (See article page 5.)
aclu news
oct/nov 1990
efense attorneys for Death Row
D inmate Robert Alton Harris filed a
petition for rehearing in the Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeal on September 27
charging that the 2-1 rejection of Harris's
appeal by a three judge panel of that court
a month earlier was an "extraordinary and
potentially pernicious ruling."
According to the attorneys, Charles
Sevilla and Michael McCabe of San Diego
and Michael Laurence, Director of the
ACLU-NC Death Penalty Project, the
majority opinion "stripped poor persons
accused of capital crimes of the basic tools
of defense - the appointment and compe-
tent assistance of a mental health expert."
Defense attorneys also charge that the
earlier ruling conflicts with United States
Harris Attorneys File Petititon
for Rehearing
Supreme Court precedent, which recog-
nizes the fundamental unfairness of sen-
tencing people to death because of their
poverty.
In the petition for rehearing en banc,
Harris's attorneys are asking the full Court
of Appeals to vacate the August 29 deci-
sion which held that Harris was not enti-
tled to a new trial.
"Harris was denied his due process
rights because the court-appointed psychi-
atrists failed to detect his organic brain
disorder and a myriad of mental health
problems," Laurence charged. "Without
the evidence that Robert Harris suffers
from severe brain damage, organic person-
ality disorder, fetal alcohol effects and
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, the jury
which convicted him and sentenced him to
death was fundamentally misled."
Stay of Execution for
Arkansas Man
federal appeals court stayed the
A execution of a retarded Death
Row inmate on September 4 just -
hours before he was scheduled to die by
lethal injection in Little Rock, Arkansas. _
Michael Laurence, Director of the
ACLU-NC Death Penalty Project who
helped win the stay of execution for Barry
Lee Fairchild, said the court's decision
was based on new evidence that Fairchild
was beaten by members of the Sheriff's
Department in order to coerce his confes-
sion.
Fairchild was scheduled to die on
September 5 for a 1983 murder. "He had
said many times that he was beaten and
forced to confess," explained Laurence,
"but not until September 4 did we have
independent evidence that corroborated
his charges."
The new evidence included testimony
from other inmates that they had also been
beaten by former Sheriff Tommy F.
Robinson, who is now a _ US.
Congressman, and sheriff's deputies in an
"The Black community of Little Rock was
living under a reign of terror under the
Sheriff who forced Fairchild's confession."
attempt to coerce confessions.
"The same kind of coercion directed -
toward Barry Fairchild - physical abuse,
brandishing weapons and _ threatening
death - was directed towards the five
other suspects as well," said local defense
attorney John Wesley Hall, Jr.
In two videotaped confessions,
Fairchild is shown with a bandage around
his head and swollen eyes.
Fairchild and all of the inmates who
gave affidavits are Black. "The Black
community of Little Rock was living
under a reign of terror under Tommy
Robinson," said Richard Burr, an attorney
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Officers
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Board of Directors for 1990-91:
H. Lee Halterman, Chair; Marsha
Berzon, Vice-Chair (Chair of the Legal
Committee); Milton Estes, Vice-Chair
(Chair of the Development Committee);
Dick Grosboll, Vice-Chair (Chair of the
Field Committee); Alberto Saldamando,
Vice-Chair (Chair of the Legislative
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These officers will serve on the
ACLU-NC Executive Committee along
with Marlene De Lancie, Joanne Lewis,
Jack Londen, Debbie Lee, Tom Reilly,
Margaret Russell, and Beverly Tucker.
In addition, Margaret Russell was
elected as the ACLU-NC representative to
the Board of Directors of the national
ACLU. Russell replaces former ACLU-
NC representative Nancy Pemberton.
Peace Navy ...
Continued from page I
Circuit Judge Thomas Tang, in his
concurring statement wrote, "The
Constitution must be protected, not the
authority of the Navy to demonstrate with-
out interference its public relations mes-
sage that it is a good investment of public
funds....Vigilant measures allegedly taken
in defense of American values may sub-
vert the very values they seek to protect."
According to the Peace Navy's Heifitz,
"This further victory for free speech
comes at a critical time. Without public
debate, without a recognizable opposition
party in Congress, we are rapidly
approaching war in the Middle East.
Former Secretary of War [sic] Weinberger
recently stated that "We can't fight a war
in the Mid-East and at the same time fight
a war with our Congress...we have to be
united as a nation that we need to do
this...'
"Our practice of free speech on the
Bay will hopefully contribute to that -
debate and call into question that unity,"
Heifitz added.
The Navy, however, seems not to be
interested in the debate. Last year, follow-
ing the District Court ruling, it moved the
press and invited public officials from the
Pier to an aircraft carrier out in the Bay to
view the Fleet Week displays.
According to Heifitz, "The Navy
didn't want the invited officials to con-
front opposing messages during Fleet
Week. From having been host to the
Navy, the City has now become the care-
fully sequestered guests of the U.S. Navy
high above and out of sight of the demon-
strators. While the Peace Navy won a vic-
tory for free speech, it lost a key segment
of its audience.
"Tt seems all too true that the price of
liberty is eternal vigilance," Heifitz added.
with the NAACP Legal Defense and
Education Fund who is also working on
the case.
As the .execution date approached,
many members of the Black community
came forward with information about the
abusive practices of the Sheriff's
Department. The FBI and _ Justice
Department are now investigating charges
of civil rights violations by the Sheriff's
Department under Robinson in this case
and others.
Noting that Fairchild is mentally
retarded with an IQ between 60 and 70,
Laurence said, "Barry Fairchild gave a
In rejecting Harris's claim for an evi-
dentiary hearing, the majority opinion,
written by Judge Brunetti, stated that indi-
gent defendants were not entitled to com-
petent expert assistance in their defense.
Panel member Judge Noonan, who in
March issued the stay of execution which
kept Harris from the gas chamber on April
3, dissented.
"The central question in this case is not
about the legitimacy of the death penalty;
it was whether or not the state can continue
to execute poor people," Laurence said.
"This is an issue that reaches the very fab-
ric of justice in our society. The evidence
presented in the courtroom was very clear:
if Robert Harris had been wealthy, he
would not be on Death Row today.
"If permitted to remain the law of the
Circuit," Laurence said, "the majority
opinion will further entrench the disparity
in treatment in the criminal justice systems
between rich and poor defendants."
confession because he was very suscepti-
ble to being beaten and broken. Two
expert witness psychologists who exam-
ined him said that people with low IQ's
can easily be persuaded to say things they
don't believe."
An Arkansas state Representative said
in the wake of the Fairchild case that he
will introduce legislation next term to ban
the execution of the mentally retarded.
Four of the 37 states which have capital
punishment also have laws banning the
execution of retarded persons.
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
sent the case back to the District Court for
a hearing on the new evidence.
The state of Arkansas resumed the use
of capital punishment this year after
twenty-six years. Two people have been
executed since June.
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Court OK's RedwoodStock March
n the eve of Labor Day weekend,
QO ACLU-NC staff attorneys
Matthew Coles and Ed Chen
obtained a federal court order allowing
Redwood Summer protestors to go ahead
with a Labor Day march through the
northern California town of Fortuna.
Redwood Summer organizers called
for the march as the culmination of
"Redwoodstock", a three-day celebration
to mark the end of Redwood Summer.
Fortuna, a town of 9,000 which lies about
15 miles south of Eureka, hosts the Pacific
Lumber mill. The march was to conclude
a summer-long series of nonviolent dem-
onstrations to call attention to the plight of
California's ancient forests endangered by
the logging practices of the U.S. Forest
Service and private lumber companies.
The march was to be a mock funeral pro-
cession for the forest; at the site of the
mill, marchers would place wreaths of
flowers. :
On August 20, only 14 days before the
planned march, the city of Fortuna passed
an "emergency" amendment to its parade
permit ordinance, requiring applications
for permits to be "submitted at least 20
days in advance of the proposed parade or
assembly."
"The ordinance made it impossible for
the Redwood Summer protesters to get a
permit," said ACLU-NC attorney
Matthew Coles, "and town officials
threatened to arrest anyone who marched
without one."
On the advice of the ACLU-NC the
organizers still submitted a permit appli-
cation, but town officials refused to either
grant or deny the requested permit. Instead,
the town threw numerous obstacles into the
application process, demanding, among
other things, a million dollars in insurance,
but refusing to say if it would issue the per-
mit if its demands were met.
On Thursday, August 30 - just three
days before the planned march - Coles
and Chen filed a lawsuit in U.S. District
Court charging that the town's actions
were unconstitutional.
On Friday, August 31, U.S. District
Court Judge Stanley Weigel issued a
Temporary Restraining Order (TRO)
ordering the Fortuna police not to arrest
Redwood Summer marchers. Judge Weigel
ruled that the lumber town's refusal to
issue a parade permit to the Redwood
Summer protesters probably would be held
to be a violation of freedom of speech at a
full trial.
With the TRO in hand, the demonstra-
tors held the march on September 3, fol-
lowing a two-day rally and music festival
along the Eel River. The march, which also
drew a counter-protest, was nonviolent and
no demonstrators were arrested.
"We are extremely happy that we were
able to win a TRO which allowed the
Redwood Summer activists to exercise
their First Amendment rights during the
Redwoodstock celebration,' said Chen.
"But the longer-term problem still persists:
a town cannot enact obstructive regulations
in an attempt to circumvent the
Constitution. We plan to pursue this case
to challenge the 20-day application
requirement."
our Redwood Summer protesters
FE filed a lawsuit in U.S. District
Court on September 6, charging
that their constitutional rights were vio-
lated when members of the Humboldt
County Sheriff's Department forcibly
shaved their heads at the county jail.
Plaintiffs Michael Mulhall, Jayme
Bozzwell, Stephen Brady and _ Gary
Wilhelm had their heads shaved after they
were arrested and jailed on July 24 for
trespassing during a civil disobedience
action against lumber company logging
practices which threaten old growth
forests.
The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District
Court in San Francisco by ACLU-NC staff
attorney Ed Chen, and ACLU-NC cooper-
ating attorneys Mark Harris of Humboldt
County and Robert Fries and Andrew
Berman of Steinhart and Falconer.
In June, Redwood Summer, an organi-
zation dedicated to conducting peaceful
demonstrations to call attention to the
plight of California's ancient forests and
other ecologically critical habitats, began a
series of nonviolent demonstrations to
protest the U.S. Forest Service and lumber
company logging practices in California.
On July 23, plaintiffs Mulhall,
Bozzwell, Brady and Wilhelm were
arrested for trespassing when they staged a
Demonstrators Challenge Forced
Head Shaving
protest on property belong to Pacific
Lumber Company. While in detention, all
of the plaintiffs had their heads shaved
against their will; Brady and Bozzwell also
had their faces shaved. Mulhall was physi-
cally restrained and brutalized by members
of the Sheriff's Department.
"Although the Sheriff's Department
claimed the protesters were shaved to rid
them of lice, at no time prior to or after the
shaving were they properly examined by
qualified medical personnel," explained
attorney Harris. "Nor did any qualified
medical personnel determine that the com-
mon treatment for lice - if any had been
found - which is shampooing with
appropiate medication, was ineffective."
Harris noted that "to our knowledge,
the practice of head shaving has only been
used against activists. Since complaints
were raised about the practice, no one has
since had their head forcibly shaved."
Plaintiff Michael Mulhall explained
what happened to him at the jail. "I
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Attorney Mark Harris (center) flanked by plaintiffs Karen Pickett of Redwood
Summer and Michael Mulhall and Stephen Brady, two protesters who had their
heads forcibly shaved at the Humboldt County Jail.
Union Maid photos
shouted to the guards that I wanted to see a
physician, but I did not get to see any med-
ical personnel at any time.
"As I was screaming, `You won't cut
my hair,' a guard began kidney punching
me. He grabbed me in a throat hold and I
could not breathe. Two guards flipped me
over on my chest on the floor and slammed
my face into the floor. One guard put his
full weight on my calf, and my hands were
forced up behind my back and _ hand-
cuffed," Mulhall stated.
"A third guard came and grabbed my
feet and they carried me into the jail bar-
bershop and threw me into the chair. A jail
officer pulled my head back really hard
and an inmate began to shave my head.
Then they threw me in a holding cell."
No medical purpose
"The head shaving was unnecessary
and medically inappropriate," said attorney
Chen. "We believe it was done with mali-
cious, oppressive intent and to inflict
injury and punishment based in part on the .
political views of the demonstrators."
"The Humboldt County Sheriff's
Department has threatened to continue its
practice of shaving the heads of pretrial
detainees - including members of
Redwood Summer. This practice threatens
to chill the exercise of political protest," he
added.
Karen Pickett, a Redwood Summer
organizer, explained that although all
Redwood Summer activists are trained in
nonviolence and that none of the protes-
tors had been arrested for any acts of
vioence, participants suffered many vio-
lent attacks on them. "Throughout our
summer campaign to slow down logging
to a sustainable level, protesters have been
assaulted, threatened, run off the road and
kidnapped," she said. "The sheriffs in
Humboldt and Mendocino Counties did
nothing to investigate or follow-up on our
complaints.
"Law enforcement must not be allowed
to use violence or harassment as a deter-
rent to freedom of speech," Pickett
charged, adding that as the environmental
crisis still exists, their protest campaign
will continue.
The lawsuit, Redwood Summer y.
Humboldt County Sheriffs Department, is
charging that the challenged policy vio-
lates the First, Fourth, Fifth -and
Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S.
Constitution. In order to prevent future
injury, the lawsuit asks the court to declare
that head shaving of pretrial detainees is
unconstitutional and to enjoin the Sheriff's
Department from any future head shaving.
The suit also asks for compensatory and
punitive damages for the plaintiffs.
aclu news
oct/nov 1990
Bill of Rights
Day ...
Continued from page I
attitudes of oppressing institutions, and
society at large.
In 1956, the Daughters began publish-
ing a monthly magazine, The Ladder.
Lyon served as its editor from 1956-69
and Martin from 1960-62. The Ladder
became the first publication in the U.S.
with articles especially for lesbians.
As the lesbian rights movement pro-
gressed, so did the innovative collabora-
tion of Martin and Lyon. In 1964, they co-
founded the Council on Religion and the
Homosexual and in 1965, they founded
Citizens Alert, a coalition of civil rights
groups dealing with complaints against
police brutality. In 1972, they were among
the founding members of the Alice B.
Toklas Lesbian/Gay Democratic Club.
In 1972, Martin and Lyon, both accom-
plished writers, co-authored the ground-
breaking book Lesbian/Woman which was
published by Bantam and used widely as a
text in women's and gay studies courses
throughout the country. The book was
excerpted in Ms. magazine and won the
Gay Book Award from the American
Library Association in 1972.
Apart from their collaborative work,
both Martin and Lyon have many individ-
ual accomplishments as well.
Lyon, a 1946 journalism graduate from
U.C. Berkeley, holds a Doctor of
Education from the Institute for Advanced
Study of Human Sexuality, where she also
served as a professor from 1976-1987.
She was appointed to the San
Francisco Human Rights Commission by
Mayor George Moscone in 1976, serving
as its Chair in 1982-83 as well as Chair of
its Lesbian/Gay Advisory Committee.
Lyon has lectured on human sexuality
at universities across the country, has writ-
ten for a spectrum of publications ranging
from Ms. to Penthouse Forum, and has
served on numerous boards and commis-
sions including the Citizens Committee to
CHUB oattitcM EN AeS Cnet
Sunday, December 9
4:00 p.m. Reception
5:00 p.m. Program
Grand Ballroom -
Westin St. Francis Hotel
Union Square, San Francisco
Honoring
Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin
Lesbian/Gay rights pioneers
with the 1990 Earl Warren Civil Liberties Award
Keynote Speaker
Professor Derrick Bell
Harvard Law School
Civil rights attorney and educator
Music by Ronnie Gilbert with Libby McLaren
Political satire by
Ian Shoales of Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre
The hotel is wheelchair accessible. Please use the Post St. entrance.
ASL Interpretation will be provided.
Tickets $15.00/$8.00 (for low-income/seniors/students)
Civil rights attorney Derrick Bell will be the keynote speaker.
Steve Kagan, NYT Pictures
Commemorate the Fortieth Anniversary of
_ the Signing of the United Nations Charter
and the San Francisco Women's Centers.
Del Martin, the valedictorian of the
first graduating class of San Francisco's
George Washington High School, also
studied journalism at San Francisco State
and U.C. Berkeley. `
A nationally known advocate for bat-
tered women, Martin is a co-founder of
the Coalition for Justice for Battered
Women (1975), La Casa de las Madres
shelter for battered women (1976) and the
California Coalition against Domestic
Violence (1977). She also served on
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NOW's National Task Force on Battered
Women/Household Violence from 1975-
77 and as a board member of the Western
States Shelter Network.
Martin drew on her work against
domestic violence to author Battered
responded by saying, "This is a university,
not a lunch counter in the Deep South,"
Bell replied, "I feel that Harvard is long
overdue for change, just like the South
was."
Bell's life has been fully committed to
The dynamic Ronnie Gilbert, formerly of The Weavers, will sing at the Bill of
Rights Day Celebration.
JA. Rubino
Wives, first published in 1976 and updated
in 1981, a book which is used widely for
women's studies courses and in training
shelter volunteers.
A longtime activist in the women's
movement, Martin is a founding member
of the San Francisco Women's Centers,
the Lesbian Mothers' Union, and the Bay
Area Women's Coalition. She was
appointed Chair of the San Francisco
Commission on the Status of Women in
1976 and continued on the Commission
until 1979.
Keynote speaker
Last May, Derrick Bell, the first ten-
ured Black law professor at Harvard,
announced that he would go on unpaid
leave until Harvard Law School appointed
a Black woman as a tenured professor. Of
the law school's tenured professors, only
three are Black and five are women. Like
many other law schools in the nation, it
has never had a Black woman as a tenured
professor.
When the dean of the law school
the fight for racial justice. In the 1960's as
an attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense
and Education Fund, headed at that time by
Thurgood Marshall, Bell was assigned to
Mississippi where he helped secure the
admission of James Meredith to Ole Miss
over the opposition of segregationist
Governor Ross Barnett.
He has participated in many of the legal
battles for desegregation, equal treatment
and affirmative action, both in the North
and the South.
_In addition to Harvard, Bell has taught
law at the University of Southern
California and was dean of the University
of Oregon Law School from 1981-85.
He is the author of Race, Racism and
American Law, which is dedicated to "all
those who throughout America's history
have risked its wrath to protest its faults,"
Shades of Brown: New Perspectives on
School Desegregation, and the innovative
And We Are Not Saved, a series of fictional
stories dealing with real-life conflicts in
the battle for racial justice in the United
States.
aclu news
oct/nov 1990 5
Court Bars NCAA Drug Tests of Student Athletes
tanford student. athletes cannot be
forced to take NCAA drug tests as a
result of September 25 ruling by the
state Court of Appeal in the ACLU-NC
lawsuit Hill and McKeever. v. National
Collegiate Athletic Association.
The Sixth District Court of Appeal
held that the nationwide drug testing pro-
gram imposed on college athletes through-
out the country `since 1986 violates the
California Constitution's guaranteed right
of privacy.
"This decision is a ray of hope in an
otherwise bleak environment, engendered
by the government's `War on Drugs,'"
said ACLU-NC staff attorney Ed Chen
who represented the students along with
cooperating attorneys Susan Harriman and
Robert Van Nest of Keker and Brockett.
"This is the first successful challenge to
the NCAA drug testing program in the
country."
The unanimous appellate court ruling
upheld an earlier injunction against the
drug testing issued by Santa Clara
Superior Court Judge Conrad L. Rushing
in 1988. The three-judge appellate panel
agreed with Rushing that the NCAA failed
to show it had a compelling interest to test
students based on evidence of actual use
of prohibited substances.
The NCAA, a 1000-member associa-
tion, conducts competitions in 26 college
sports. When it instituted its drug testing
program in 1986, it required all athletes to
agree to submit to the tests or be barred
from competition. The sweeping program
covered tests for 3,600 substances -
including birth control pills and over-the-
counter medicines.
The lawsuit began when Stanford div-
ing champion Simone LeVant refused to
submit to the NCAA testing, although she
knew that it jeopardized her ability to
enter NCAA _ competitions. LeVant
charged that the drug testing program,
which required student athletes to disrobe
from their armpits to their knees and pro-
duce a urine sample while being watched
by a monitor, was "degrading, humiliating
and embarrassing" and invaded her right
to privacy. The ACLU-NC filed a lawsuit
Champion Stanford diver Simone LeVant dove into a controversy which resulted in the first
successful challenge to the NCAA drug testing of student athletes.
on behalf of LeVant and in January, 1987
won a Temporary Restraining Order from
Santa Clara Superior Court allowing her to
compete without being tested.
Soccer, football
When LeVant, a senior and the Captain
of the Women's Diving `Team, graduated,
two other Stanford athletes soccer player
Jennifer Hill and football linebacker Barry
Chuck Painter, Stanford University
McKeever, joined the suit. - :
In a five-week trial in 1988, the ACLU-
NC attorneys provided numerous expert
witnesses and hundreds of exhibits to sup-
port their charge that the forced drug test-
ing was unnecessary and invasive of the
students' privacy.
In April, 1988, Judge Rushing issued a
permanent injunction declaring, "The
_ NCAA's monitored taking of urine sam-
ples for drug testing is
clearly an invasion of the
right to privacy....It
appears the evidence is
wholly insufficient to
support the NCAA pro-
gram of drug testing in
- any sport." The injunc-
tion prohibited _ the
`NCAA from testing any
of the 600 Stanford ath-
letes competing in any
sport anywhere in the
United States. The
NCAA appealed.
In August, attorney
Harriman argued the
case before the three-
judge panel of the Court
of Appeal.
In its 56-page ruling,
the Court stated, "The
evidence showed that the
test program was too
broad, and its accuracy
doubtful. The appeal pro-
cedure was inadequate.
Finally, there are alterna-
tives to testing that are
less offensive to the right
of privacy which have
not been adequately con-
sidered."
~ Domestic Partners
Vote Yes on K
by Matthew Coles
ACLU-NC Staff Attorney
K,- the proposed Domestic
Partnership law which is on the
ballot in San Francisco in November,
because it endorses the equal treatment of
lesbians and gay men and it also believes
that the right to privacy gives people the
right to form relationships outside of mar-
riage. i oe
Here is what the proposed ordinance,
authored by Supervisor Harry Britt, does:
The law states that two people can
become domestic partners if they are over
18, unmarried, unrelated and:
T he ACLU-NC supports Proposition
1. they live together (they can have
separate homes as long as they have one
that they share); and
2. each has agreed to provide the other
with basic food and shelter if necessary.
The law sets up two ways to create a
domestic partnership. The partners can file
a Statement at City Hall saying they are
domestic partners. If they want to keep
their relationship more confidential, they
can sign a statement in front of a notary
and a witness instead. That is the whole
law.
Unlike the domestic partnership laws
in Berkeley and Santa Cruz, this law does
not give city workers employment bene-
_ fits, but it offers the potential for much
more than that.
Anyone who lives or works in San
Francisco (not just city employees) can
create a domestic partnership by filing at
City Hall. There is no limit on who can
create one by signing in front of a notary.
This means that businesses can use
domestic partnerships for joint member-
ships, vacation plans, leave policies, even
health plans. The new law does not require
any business to do that (federal and state
law prevent the City from requiring that in
all but a few, financially insignificant cir-
cumstances). But the new law does make
it possible for any business (or other insti-
tution for that matter) to use domestic part-
nership. The other laws do not do that.
More important, because this law is
not limited to city workers, it will create a
system for recognizing that lesbians and
gay men have "intimate, committed" rela-
tionships. That may not seem like a "ben-
efit" in the conventional sense, but it is the
most meaningful thing that any domestic
partnership plan can do.
One of the most effective tools which
American culture uses to keep lesbians
and gay men out of the mainstream is the
myth that gay people are emotionally shal-
low, incapable of serious, abiding commit-
ments to each other.
One of the most effective tools that the
lesbian and gay rights movement has for
destroying that myth is bringing gay rela-
tionships into the open. By having govern-
ment recognize lesbian and = gay
relationships, this law does just that.
The Department of Social Services has
already decided that the law will not keep
people with HIV infections off public
assistance programs. It will not affect ben-
efits plans. It will make it impossible for
the family of a person with HIV disease to
claim that the person's lover is a stranger
or, at most, a friend.
The law will not make wills and pow-
ers of attorney unnecessary. This is not the
end of the movement for the lesbian and
Continued on page 8
| Challenge to Proposition 115 _
Crime Law Should not
Erode Rights
n October 2, the California
QO Supreme Court heard arguments
challenging the legality of
Proposition 115, the "Criminal Justice
Reform" initiative sponsored by Senator
Pete Wilson and passed by the voters in
June.
The lawsuit, Raven v. Deukmejian, was
filed on behalf of the former President of
the American Bar Association Robert D.
Raven and other leaders in the legal pro-
fession, by Stephen Bomse and David
Goodwin of Heller, Ehrman, White and
McAuliffe.
"This sweeping crime initiative all but
eliminates the Calfornia Constitution as an
independent guarantor of the liberties of
the people of California," Goodwin told
the high court.
In an amicus brief, the three California
affiliates of the ACLU argued that the
court should declare that Proposition 115
violates the limits on constitutional change
in California on two counts: it violates the
revision Clause of the Constitution and it
violates the "single subject" principle.
The passage of Proposition 115 made
sweeping changes to the Calfornia
Constitution by limiting many California
rights to only those guaranteed by the fed-
eral Constitution, and denying California
courts the ability to interpret any of the
state clauses independently of federal con-
stitutional doctrine. :
According to ACLU-NC staff attorney
Margaret Crosby, the author of the amicus
brief, "Although direct democracy through
a vote of the people on an initiative is an
appropriate method of making a specific
amendment to the state Constitution,
sweeping or profound changes - such as
those embodied in Proposition 115 - are
reserved for a more deliberative process."
Proposition 115 revises the state
Constitution, the ACLU argues, making
profound changes that are placed beyond
the vote of a majority after a single ballot
measure campaign. The measure also
addresses multiple unrelated subjects -
ranging from the death penalty to jury voir
- dire to the new crime of torture - which
the voters were forced to accept or reject
in a single package.
"This measure thus subverts the signifi-
cant values underlying the Constitution's
limitations on change: the revision's clause
protection of fundamental rights and core
institutions from elimination through (c)
hasty, ill-conceived measures and the sin-
gle subject clause's protection of participa-
tory democracy by ensuring that an
initiative be sufficiently clear and focused
that the electoral result reflects an authen-
tic expression of the will of California vot-
ers," the ACLU argues.
"The ability to construe the California
Constitution independently has meant that
fundamental rights are not expanded and
contracted with decisions from the U.S.
Supreme Court 3,000 miles away," Crosby
stated. "Now, Proposition 115 threatens to
sacrifice that independence."
In addition, the ACLU brief argues that
if the Court decides that Proposition 115
was validly enacted, then the Court must
also interpret the measure narrowly so that
it has no impact on substantial constitu-
_tional rights.
"We urge the Court to interpret
Proposition 115 to affect only the enumer-
ated procedural rights in criminal proceed-
ings and to have no impact on such key
civil liberties guarantees as freedom of
speech, petition, religion and privacy,"
Crosby explained.
aclu news
oct/nov 1990
Challenge Grant Boosts ACLU
Fundraising Campaigns -
wo longtime ACLU supporters
: have joined forces to create an
unusual and wide-ranging chal-
lenge to the ACLU's fundraising program
this fall. James C. Hormel and Alvin H.
Baum, LCSW, have agreed to match
increased gifts to the organization up to
$45,000. This match multiplies the value
of every gift from donors who increase
their gifts over their level of support last
year.
Hormel is a San Francisco philanthro-
pist and community leader who has sup-
ported the ACLU for many years with
donations and issue-oriented volunteering.
Last year he made a strategic challenge
gift that increased the membership of the
ACLU's Founders Circle by 25 donors
who gave $1,000 each.
Baum is a San Francisco psychothera-
pist and a volunteer active in a range of
community concerns. He was on the
ACLU-NC Board of Directors from 1976
to 1982, and served as Treasurer from
1980 through 1982.
"The commitment of Al and Jim to the
development of the ACLU program is
visionary," said Development Committee
Chair Milton Estes. "This extraordinary
challenge will make a huge difference in
our ability now and in the future to fund
the ACLU's legal activities. Increased giv-
ing this year will become the base of
future accomplishments. Their gift is par-
ticularly crucial in this period of hostility
to civil liberties in both state and federal
courts."
ACLU-NC
Executive Director
James C. Hormel Janet Van Ham
Alvin H. Baum
- Dorothy Ehrlich agreed, "This substantial
support from Jim Hormel and Al Baum
demonstrates philanthropic leadership of
the most enduring kind. Individual dona-
tions provide 50 percent of the ACLU's
organizational budget, so the challenge
grant and the increased gift support that it
will attract will provide a financial founda-
tion for all our programs.
"As the last term of the U.S. Supreme
Court so clearly demonstrated, civil liber-
ties are in greater danger now than at any
time since the 1950's. Increased private
support will help us to respond quickly and
decisively to the challenges which confront
us," Ehrlich added.
By challenging virtually all of the
ACLU's donors to upgrade their gifts,
Baum and Hormel are providing an effec-
tive catalyst for growth in fundraising.
Donations of any amount will qualify for
the match. The challenge provides a dollar-
for-dollar match of the amount of the
increase of a gift.
For example, contributors to the
ACLU-NC 1990 Bill of Rights Campaign
will be able to multiply the impact of
their gifts by increasing their support over
their 1989 level. A donor who gave $100
last year, and who gives $250 this year,
enables the ACLU to receive an addi-
tional $150 from the challenge grant.
Similarly, gifts made by donors to the
ACLU-NC Fall Major Gifts Campaign
will also qualify for the match. For exam-
ple, donors who contributed $1,000 in
1989 who decide to upgrade their support
to $2,000 this year will qualify the ACLU
to receive an additional $1,000 in support
from the challenge pool. Full payment on
the pledge or gift must be received by
January 31, 1991 to count for the chal-
lenge grant.
`Board member and fundraising leader
Fran Strauss predicted that the new chal-
lenge grant will give a major boost to the
ACLU-NC campaigns. "The support
offered by Hormel and Baum is an
incredibly generous gesture that flows
from a deep commitment to the cause of
civil liberties. I'm sure our members and
donors will have a tremendously positive
response to the challenge."
For more information about the
challenge grant or gifts eligible for
matching, please contact Cheri Bryant,
Director of Development, at 415/621-
2493.
Campaign Kick-Off Tops Goal
olunteers at the 1990 Bill of
Rights Campaign Kick-Off on
September 11 raised $7500 - the
highest ever in a single "Phone Nite."
Phoners cheered as Campaign Chair
Marlene De Lancie tallied up the pledges
at the end of the evening, announcing,
"The enthusiastic response from our mem-
bers has put us well on our way to our
$100,000 goal."
In the weeks following the Kick-Off,
Phone Nites sponsored by ACLU-NC
Chapters in their local areas also attained
or exceeded their fundraising goals.
"Vigorous volunteer recruiting by the
Campaign committee and generous sup- |
port from ACLU-NC chapters has enabled
the Bill of Rights Campaign to raise over
$100,000 annually through a series of
fundraising Phone Nites," De Lancie
explained.
At each Phone Nite volunteers call
ACLU-NC members asking for for pledge
contributions to support the ACLU-NC
legal and public education programs. All
volunteers are treated to a complimentary
dinner and receive an orientation from an
experienced leader.
"We want to encourage any member
who has been looking for a fast and easy
Bill of Rights Campaign Committee at the successful September fundraising
kick-off.
Ann Rushing
way to donate time to the ACLU to sign
up for a Phone Nite. Your support as a Bill
of Rights volunteer is one of the most val-
uable contributions you can make to the
ACLU this year," De Lancie said.
Campaign Phone Nites operate from
6:00 PM to 9:30 PM and are held in con-
venient locations within the Bay Area.
As special feature of the Bill of Rights
Campaign '90, all volunteers receive a
"Guardian of Liberty" pocket flashlight
(great for earthquake supplies) and a
chance to win prizes at the nightly raffle.
Check the schedule below for a Phone
Nite in your area. If you don't see your
Chapter listed or if you would like more
information, please call ACLU-NC Mem-
bership Coordinator Sandy Holmes at
(415) 621-2493.
1990 Bill of Rights Campaign
Phone Nite Schedule
Chapter
Fresno
Gay Rights (San Francisco)
Mid-Peninsula
North Valley (Shasta County)
San Francisco
Santa Clara
Sonoma
B-A-R-K/Earl Warren (East Bay)
Date
Monday, November 12
Wednesday, December 5
Thursday, November 29
Monday, October 29
Tuesday, November 27
Thursday, November 29
Tuesday, December 4
Monday, December 10
To be announced
Tuesday, November 20
aclu news |
oct/nov 1990 7
Bryant, New Development Director
( ; heri Bryant, the ACLU-NC's
new Director of Development,
has "a deep belief in the power
of philanthropy to affect social change
and social justice."
"Nobody says at the age of 5 that they
want to grow up to be a fundraiser," she
laughs, "but it is a field which excites me
because I enjoy being a person who can
facilitate building effective organizations
through the generous gifts of donors."
Bryant knows the field well, having
worked for a decade as a fundraiser for
groups ranging from the Oakland
Symphony to the University of California.
A 1975 graduate of U.C. Berkeley,
Bryant "fell into fundraising" when she
joined the staff of Advocates for Women
and found that a major part of her job as
Project Director was to raise the money to
keep the program operating. Advocates
for Women is a Bay Area organization
which promotes non-traditional jobs for
women through recruitment, training, and
working with employers to hire women
with transferable skills.
She honed her skills as Director of
Development for the Oakland. Symphony
and the Trust for Public Land before
becoming a fundraising consultant for a
variety of nonprofit agencies, including
the University Art Museum in Berkeley,
the Women's Cancer Resource Center
and the California Network of Mental
Health Clients.
Gay community foundation
In 1986, Bryant was appointed
Executive Director of Horizons
Foundation, an organization which she
had served as a Board member since
1981. "Horizons Foundation is the oldest
gay community foundation in the nation,"
Bryant explained. "Its work is ground-
breaking. The key is that word `commu-
nity.' Horizons is supported every year by
donors from the gay community; then the
organization turns around and makes
small but high impact grants for lesbian
and gay services. Unlike many other foun-
dations, Horizons is not reliant on a per-
manent endowment or one large giver."
Horizons Foundation has distributed
over 150 grants to organizations in nine
Bay Area counties, focusing on civil
rights, health, AIDS, human services, arts
and cultural programs and education.
"We helped a lot of small, new groups
get started," Bryant explained, adding
proudly that Horizons was the first foun-
dation to give seed grants to the San
Francisco AIDS Foundation and Project
was responsible for raising 24,000 gifts
totaling $2.5 million of the overall univer-
sity 5-year goal of $455 million.
Bryant, who has long admired the
work and people of the ACLU, feels she is
joining the ACLU-NC Development staff
at an "exciting stage."
"The organization has worked hard to
develop a lot of grassroots support, has a
large membership, and has attracted a very
committed corps of volunteers. The fund-
Cheri Bryant
Union Maid photos
Open Hand. "Also, because we were the
first lesbian and gay grantmaking founda-
tion in the country, we have been very
involved in helping other gay foundations
get started in Seattle, San Diego,
Minneapolis and Boston," she added.
In 1988, Bryant was appointed Director
of the Annual Fund for the College of
Letters and Science at U.C.. Berkeley.
There she directed alumni fundraising pro-
grams, worked with faculty to raise major
restricted gifts, and coordinated the annual
gifts effort with the university's capital
campaign, "Keeping the Promise." She
raising programs are models for other
organizations in their personal approach,
volunteer participation and effectiveness.
It is now poised at a point where it can
jump to a new level - where we can pro-
vide a more permanent financial founda-
tion for the organization to ensure that our
mission can go on for many years address-
ing the civil liberties issues of tomorrow
as well as today," she explained.
Planned giving
Bryant joined the ACLU-NC just as it
is launching its fall fundraising efforts -
the Founders Circle and Bill of Rights
Campaigns. In addition, she is working
with consultant Jan deJong to develop a
new planned giving program for the
ACLU-NC. This program will help
ACLU members and supporters to desig-
nate the ACLU as a charitable benefici-
ary in their wills and in their long-term
estate planning.
"This is one example of what I mean
about ensuring the future of the ACLU,"
Bryant says. "Through bequests, life
insurance and other planned gifts, dedi-
cated supporters can extend their life val-
ues through a charitable gift."
Though she never seems to have
much spare time, Bryant likes to spend it
in the outdoors, slogging through tide-
pools, birdwatching or investigating his-
toric architectural sites. Always the
fundraiser, she says she "can't enter a
museum without first studying the lists of
donors in the lobby!"
Bryant replaces Associate Director
Martha Kegel who left the ACLU-NC in
August to attend Stanford Law School.
Kegel, the former Executive Director of
the Louisiana ACLU, joined the ACLU-
NC in 1986. Under her leadership of the
Development Department, the member-
ship of the ACLU-NC grew from 22,000
to 30,000 members and the Major Gifts
Campaign expanded by 87%.
Kegel also helped found and lead
Death Penalty Focus, a statewide organi-
zation dedicated to the abolition of capi-
tal punishment in California.
At its July meeting, the ACLU-NC
Board of Directors passed a resolution
honoring Kegel and thanking her for her
work at the ACLU. The resolution states,
in part, "Martha Kegel should know how
grateful the ACLU of Northern California
is to her for advancing the organization to
unbelievably higher sights, undaunted by
the onerous challenges before us.
Although we will miss her consistent
day-to-day leadership, we will cherish
her lasting friendship and her lifelong
dedication to justice and equality."
A Rap Music Ban ... in Berkeley?
harging that a ban on rap music
C concerts at the Berkeley
Community Theater is unconstitu-
tional, ACLU-NC staff attorney Matthew
Coles wrote to Berkeley School
Superintendent Dr. LaVoneia Steele ask-
ing that the ban be rescinded. The school
district runs the theater which is located
next to Berkeley High School.
Following a September rap concert at
the theater in which two people were
stabbed, Associate Superintendent Anton
Jungherr imposed the ban. A_ concert
scheduled for October 5 with rap groups X
Klan, Kwame, Special Ed and Bruce D.
was canceled due to the ban.
"Rap music, like rock music, is pro-
tected by the First Amendment," wrote
Coles in his October 3 letter. "Making
sure that concerts are safe is a legitimate
goal, but banning rap music is hardly a
sensible way to achieve it.
"To answer violent behavior with a
ban on a controversial style of music is to
powerfully undercut everything schools
teach about intellectual freedom and civil
liberty," Coles stated. "That the ban
applies to rap, an important form of urban
African American expression, makes it
particularly inappropriate for a school dis-
trict which says it is committed to cultural
diversity," he added.
Coles asked that if the ban is not
rescinded that the School Board put the
item on its October meeting agenda.
In a response to the ACLU-NC letter,
Superintendent Steele stated, "The
Administration was told that the Berkeley
Police Department had requested that
School Administration refuse to allow Rap
"Rap music, like rock
music, is protected by
the First Amendment,
.-" Making sure that
concerts are safe is a
legitimate goal, but
banning rap music is
hardly a sensible way
to achieve it."
groups to use the Community Theater as a
result of injuries inflicted on patrons at a
concert on September 20."
"There is no BUSD Board Policy ban-
ning music of any kind," Dr. Steele added.
However, Associate Superintendent
Jungherr told the press that he imposed the
ban at the request of the Police Chief.
As of press time, Dr. Steele assured
Coles that new amendments to the BUSD
policy that were added to address the
Police Chief's security concerns, include
no restrictions on concerts based on the
content of the music.
"When record distributors and rap
groups are prosecuted in other states, it is
easy to get smug and think we're immune
from that kind of stupidity here," Coles
said. "The Berkeley ban should remind us
we can't ever be complacent about censor-
ship."
The rap group Kwame had their scheduled October 5th concert cancelled.
aclu news
oct/nov 1990
"Taking Liberties"'
A monthly radio program on civil liberties
KPFA 94.1 FM
and
KFCF 88.1 FM (Fresno)
Wednesday, November 28
at 7:00 PM
Pioneers in the Movement
for Lesbian Rights: An
Evening with Del Martin
and Phyllis Lyon
"Taking Liberties", explores how the
Bill of Rights affects our everyday lives.
The series is aired on KPFA and KFCF in
Fresno.
The monthly program, hosted by
ACLU-NC Public Information Director
Elaine Elinson, includes expert guests on
cutting edge civil liberties questions. It
also features a special section with civil
liberties news updates and information on
how listeners can make their voices heard
on crucial civil liberties issues.
a une your radio dial to "Taking Liberties!"
Domestic
Partners ...
Continued from page 5
gay rights. But it is an important begin-
ning.
- The ACLU-NC Domestic Partnership
Policy Project, funded in part by grants
from the Chicago Resource Foundation
and the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation,
is aimed at developing model domestic
partnership policies, helping to create insu-
rance plans which recognize domestic
partnerships, and exploring the tax-related
aspects of domestic partnerships.
Matthew Coles, who heads the ACLU-
NC Domestic Partnership Policy Project,
is an author of Proposition K and also
worked on the domestic partnership ordi-
nances in Berkeley, Santa Cruz, West
Hollywood and other municipalities.
Cartoonist
The ACLU News is proud to announce the addition of the work of prize-winning car-
toonist John Grimes to our pages. Grimes, a 1987 and 1988 First Prize winner in the Bay
Guardian Cartoon Contest, is a freelance artist whose cartoons are frequently seen in the
San Francisco Chronicle, the (Berkeley) Monthly, The City, and newspapers from
Cleveland to British Columbia. His first cartoon for the ACLU News (below) caught our
eye in MediaFile just as we were fighting the ban on rap music concerts at the Berkeley
Community Theater (see story on page 7.)
LET'S HEAR IT FOR MY BACKUP KAPPERS,
"FUNKY LEW ANP THE A.C.L.U."
OUN GRIMES
Field Program Monthly
Meetings
Chapter
Meetings
(Chapter meetings are open to all inter-
ested members. Contact the chapter acti-
vist listed for your area.)
B-A-R-K _-_ (Berkeley-Albany-Richmond-
Kensington) Chapter Meeting: (Usually
fourth Thursday) Meeting on Thursday,
November 29 at 7:00 PM in Berkeley.
Contact Julie Houk, 415/848-4752 (day).
Earl Warren (Oakland/Alameda
County) Chapter Meeting: (Usually
second Wednesday) Meeting on
Wednesday, November 14 at 7:30 PM,
1121 Ashmount Avenue, Oakland.
Contact Abe Feinberg, 415/451-1122.
B-A-R-K and Earl Warren Chapters
will jointly sponsor a Bill of Rights
Campaign Phone Night on Monday,
November 12 in Oakland. To volunteer,
contact Sandy Holmes, ACLU-NC office,
415/621-2493.
Fresno Chapter Meeting: (Usually third
Monday) Meetings on Monday,
November 19 and Monday, December 17
at San Joaquin Law School, 3385 E.
Shields, Fresno. New members always
welcome! For more information, please
call the Chapter Hotline 209/225-
7380.The Chapter will sponsor a Bill of
Rights Campaign Phone Night on
Wednesday, December 5 in Fresno. To
volunteer, contact Sandy Holmes, 415/
621-2493.
Gay Rights Chapter Meeting: (Usually
first Thursday) Meet Thursday,
November 1 and Thursday, December 6.
Both meetings at the ACLU-NC Office,
1663 Mission, #460, San Francisco at
7:00 PM. For more information, contact
Mike Williams, 415/845-4777. Join the
chapter on Thursday, November 29 for
their Bill of Rights Campaign Phone
Night. To volunteer, contact Sandy
Holmes, 415/621-2493.
Marin County Chapter Meeting: (Third
Monday) Monday, November 19 and
Monday, December 17 at 7:30 PM, West
America Bank, Strawberry Village, Mill
Valley. Contact Bernie Moss, 415/332-
3153;
Mid-Peninsula (Palo Alto area)
Chapter Meeting: (Usually fourth
Wednesday) For more information, con-
tact Harry Anisgard, 415/856-9186 or
Leona Billings, 415/326-0926.
Monterey County Chapter Meeting:
(Usually first Tuesday) Meet Tuesday,
November 6 and Tuesday, December 4 at
7:30 PM at the Monterey Library, Pacific
and Jefferson Streets, Monterey. For
more information, contact Richard
Criley, 408/624-7562.
Mt. Diable (Contra Costa County)
Chapter Meeting: (Now fourth
Thursday) Meet Thursday, November 22.
For time and place of meeting and more
information, contact Mildred Starkie,
415/934-0557. Calling all teachers: are
you interested in working with the chap-
ter on a "Civil Liberties Essay Contest"
for students? If so, contact Mildred
Starkie, number above.
North Peninsula (San Mateo area)
Chapter Meeting: (Usually third
Monday) Meet Monday, November 19.
and Monday, December 17 at 7:30 PM,
Bank of America, Third and El Camino,
San Mateo. Contact Emily Skolnick, 340-
9834. Note: The North Pen Chapter
has a new Hotline number: 579-1789.
The Chapter Student Outreach
Committee needs help organizing a high
school essay contest on the Bill of Rights.
Contact Neil Kelly, 415/593-6156 (eves). .
North Valley (Shasta, Siskiyou,
Tehema, and Trinity Counties)
Chapter Meeting: (Usually fourth
Wednesday) Wednesday, November 28.
For more information contact Frank
Treadway, 916/365-4336 or 916/241-
7725. The North Valley Chapter will host
a Bill of Rights Campaign Phone Night
on Tuesday, November 27. To volunteer,
contact Sandy Holmes, 415/621-2493.
Sacramento Valley Chapter Meeting:
(Usually second Wednesday) Meet
Wednesday, November 7 and Wednesday,
December 5 at 7:00 PM. Call for place.
Contact Ruth Ordas, 916/488-9950.
San Francisco Chapter Meeting:
(Usually third Monday) Meet Monday,
November 19 and Monday, December 17,
7:00 PM at the ACLU office, 1663
Mission, 460, San Francisco. The Chapter
has just reorganized and is seeking mem-
bers to participate in a variety of issue-
related committees. Contact Lee Seville,
415/681-4747.
Santa Clara Valley Chapter Meeting:
(Usually first Tuesday) Meet Tuesday,
November 6 and Tuesday, December
October 4 at 7:00 PM, Commerce Bank
Building, 111 West St. John Street, 2nd
Floor Conference Room, San _ Jose.
Contact John Holly, 408/554-9478.
Santa Cruz County Chapter Meeting:
Special meeting on hate speech:
Thursday, November 8 at the Calvary
Church, Center St., Santa Cruz. Members
meet at 7:00 PM, program begins at 7:30.
The event is free and open to the public.
Contact Sy Schwartz, 408/462-2093, for
further information.
Sonoma County Chapter Meeting:
(Third Thursday of the month) Meet
Thursday, November 15 and Thursday,
December 20, 7:30 PM, 821 Mendocino
Ave, Santa Rosa. All members welcome.
Contact Fran Byrn, 707/546-3237. Help
the chapter have a successful Bill of
Rights Campaign Phone Night on
Tuesday, November 20 in Santa Rosa. To
volunteer, contact Sandy Holmes at 415/
621-2493. s
Yolo County Chapter Meeting: (Usually
third Thursday) For more information,
contact Doug Powers, 916/756-8274.
Field
Committee
Meetings
(All meetings except those noted will be
held at the ACLU-NC Office, 1663
Mission Street, Suite #460, San Francisco.
To RSVP, or for more information, con-
tact Marcia Gallo or Michele Hurtado at
the ACLU-NC 415/621-2493.)
Student Outreach Committee: (Usually
third Saturday) Meet Saturday, November
17 and Saturday, December 15 from
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM. Our Student
Outreach Speakers' Bureau is going
strong - we're still able to take on new
speakers and more engagements. Join us
on November 17 for a discussion of the
essay contests now getting started and
other outreach projects. The December 15
meeting will feature a guest speaker.
Pro-Choice Action Campaign: (Usually
_third Tuesday) Meet Tuesday, November
20 and Tuesday, December 18 at 6:30
PM. Help organize our Teen Reproductive
Rights project, plan for 1991 grassroots
lobbying, and staff tables at upcoming
holiday fairs and festivals around the Bay
Area.
Death Penalty Action Campaign:
Organizing now for special hearings on
the death penalty in Sacramento in
November. Contact Marcia Gallo, num-
ber above, for more information.
Bill of Rights Day Celebration (see story
this issue): Sunday, December 9.
Volunteers needed to help staff tables,
welcome guests, collect tickets, etc. at our
annual ACLU of Northem California
event. Jo volunteer, contact Marcia
Gallo, number above, by November 26.
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