ACLU - Santa Cruz Chapter Award Celebration and Fundraiser

Aug 24 2008 - 3:00pm
Aug 24 2008 - 6:00pm

Join other members of our Santa Cruz community to celebrate the fine work accomplished locally in support of civil liberties for all, while supporting the efforts of our local chapter for the coming year. Festivities will take place at the Long Marine Lab's Seymour Center, in the La Feliz Room.

Map to Seymour CenterWe'll enjoy a fun time together with music and food provided by the local chapter Board, and at 4pm awards will be presented. This is a great chance to meet folks and have fun while contributing to a great cause. Proceeds are kept entirely for the educational programs and sponsorship efforts of the Santa Cruz Chapter of the ACLU - right here at home! (Thanks to UCSC for the map.)

Please join us in honoring this year’s awards recipients for their exceptional work defending and promoting our civil rights and civil liberties:
LAUREL WOERNER & EILEEN KITAYAMA (High School Essay Contest Winners)
DAVID SWEET (Distinguished Service)
CAROL FULLER (Bell of Freedom)
RYAN COONERTY (Hammer of Justice)
THE BROWN BERETS (True Patriots)


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Submitted by Lydia Blanchard on Sat, 08/23/2008 - 6:26pm.
I have regularly given membership fees at the August meeting. I have not received a mailing or emailing with general meeting information for the ACLU chapter in Santa Cruz. I am startled by the nomination and election without my knowledge of Ryan Coonerty for an American Civil Rights Union award. Mr. Coonerty has with spurious reasons limited by 33% the speaking time of the public at Santa Cruz City Council meetings and spoken rudely, ineffectively, and without legal basis to people preparing to speak at some other public meetings. His actions as mayor leave a good deal to be desired. I object to the ACLU chapter's making this decision without including its membership in it. I will not attend this meeting on 8/24 because of a prior commitment. I totally support any legal or civilly disobedient civil rights complaint made by others at the meeting because of the Coonerty award. --Lydia Blanchard, MFT

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