Berkeley ACLU http://berkeleyaclu.org Because Freedom Can't Protect Itself. Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:35:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 A Note from the Presidents http://berkeleyaclu.org/2010/08/26/a-note-from-the-presidents/ http://berkeleyaclu.org/2010/08/26/a-note-from-the-presidents/#comments Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:35:17 +0000 baclu http://berkeleyaclu.org/2010/08/26/a-note-from-the-presidents/ As summer comes to an end, Fall 2010 semester is just beginning. Make this a semester to remember by getting involved on campus and making a change in issues that are important to you! The Berkeley ACLU is a great place to start. As an ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) chapter, our club is a nationally renown organization that promotes and defends civil liberties today. Beef up that resume, make a difference, and meet awesome new people all at the same time! So what are you waiting for? Please join us Wednesday September 8, 2010 at 7pm, location TBA, for our first general meeting and let’s get this semester started right!

Jeanette Ling -Internal President
Isabel Shum -External President

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  • Intros (What you did for the weekend)/News
  • Patriot Act Tabling
    • Michael will get more about basic Patriot Act info, counterarguments, more specific information, will send to Jacob to send to tablers, and also print a few
    • Alex will be filling in the Tuesday 1100-1200
  • dotRights (Rishi)
    • dotRights meeting cancelled. Will be focused on next week.
  • T-shirts (Rishi)
    • http://www.edunliveoncampus.com/the-shirts/
  • Division Directors
    • Lisa’s division changed from Free Speech to Labor Rights
    • Alex changing focus
  • Protest Follow-up
    • Keep your eyes open. Lisa rocks. Attend protests.
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  • Welcome
  • Lobby Day: 3/6 – 3/8. ACLU has program to train students in Sacramento to lobby their representatives. Third day is actual lobbying. Registration is free. Travel is reimbursed by ACLUNC. Hotel is 84$/night until 3/12. Hotel is Holiday Inn Sacramento Capitol Plaza (300 J St, Sacramento, CA 95814). See Maria’s email for more details.
  • DA Elections: Coming up. Get the word out, and go vote.
  • dotRights: Nicki Ozer from ACLUNC is working with us to put together a dotRights campaign.
  • Secretary elections: Michael Poon appointed interim secretary; vote for permanent position (until the end of the semester) in two weeks.
  • Tabling
  • Starting 2/16; Jacob will send email with details.
  • Tuesday: 1000-1100 Michael, 1100-1200 Jacob, 1200-:: Maria
  • Wednesday: 1000-1100 Jacob, 1100-1200 Lisa, 1200-1300 Emily, 1300-1400 Jeanette
  • Division directors: Think about what division you may want to direct, if any. Elections in the near future.
  • Announcements: James Anthony, former city of Oakland prosecutor, will be speaking on the war on drugs Tuesday 2/16 @ 2000 in 122 or 121 Wheeler.
  • Tshirts: Rishi is working with a group that sells Tshirts; will get back to us.
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    • Announcements: Introduced Nicole, working for the Grassroots Campaign, Inc., which is looking for graduating seniors to join them in their work. They also take interns during the summer.
    • Current events: Obama announced that he’s working with the brass and Congress on repealing the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. The group that laid the legal foundation for the death penalty recently announced that their project was a failure and basically doesn’t work.
    • Death penalty: Club to work on connecting (education) budget cuts to the excessive money going to capital sentencing. To work with other groups on campus to make the connection explicitly.
    • dotRights: Continue creating ideas to spread dotRights awareness (and also to get ACLU grant).
    • Division directors: Introduction to what they do for the new members. Division directors will meet with the board to get ideas going.
    • New secretary: Isabel will not be here this semester, so we will need a new secretary. The secretary needs to be at every meeting if possible, and needs …to be able to write?
    • Next week’s meeting time: Wednesday 8. Room TBA.

    Yours sincerely,
    Poon :)

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    Welcome to our new site! In the upper right hand site, you will find your main navigation, the names of which are fairly self-explanatory. Those pages are currently empty, but will be filled as soon as the information can be gathered at the start of the upcoming semester.

    All current ongoings in the club will be posted here on the home page. This will hopefully include weekly meeting minutes.

    Any user can register and post comments, etc on posts.

    I hate when people say “Check back soon! [We'll have stuff later!],” because then they never do, so I won’t say that.

    Michael, signing out.

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