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BILL OF RIGHTS DAY DECEMBER 15, 2018 NEWSLETTER
#8
Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace
and Justice.
(#1 Dec. 15, 2008; #2 Dec. 15, 2009; #3 Dec. 15, 2011; #4 Dec. 15,
2012; #5 Dec. 15, 2013; #6 Dec. 15, 2014; #7, Dec. 15, 2015))
What’s at
stake (See Newsletter #6): OMNI supports the US Bill
of Rights and the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a great
foundation for our hopes for a better world:
world peace, liberty and justice for all, social and economic justice, a
sustainable planet.
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BILL OF RIGHTS DAY DECEMBER 15, 2014 NEWSLETTER #6
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UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS DAY
NEWSLETTER #7, THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS (UDHR) AT 67. DECEMBER
10, 2015.
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Contents of #7 and #6 at end
CONTENTS OF #8
ACLU
BORDC,
Chip Gibbons
DR&D,
Sue Udry
CCR
UUSC
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It's Bill of Rights Day: Celebrate Our Movement.
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December 15, 2018 by Sue Udry
To celebrate Bill of
Rights Day today, I’d like to reflect on our tremendous legacy from the days we
called ourselves the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, and the groundbreaking
work the organization did (long before I came onto the scene).
I love the way Nat Hentoff wrote about BORDC in the Village Voice.
He referred to our founding mother, Nancy Talanian, as a
modern-day Paul Revere. He compared the “teachers, retirees, lawyers, doctors,
students, and nurses” who came together to launch the Bill of Rights Defense
Committee in Northampton, Massachusetts in 2001 to the Sons of Liberty. He contrasted their courage with the
cowardice of a Congress that rushed to pass the PATRIOT Act and strip us of our
liberty. And when Northampton passed the first-in-the-nation resolution
to defend the Bill of Rights in 2002, Hentoff called it “a new American Revolution.”
Maybe not a revolution.
But we did help build a movement to defend our rights.
Through successive
administrations, Democratic and Republican, we’ve mobilized against
surveillance, profiling, indefinite detention and torture. We’ve mobilized to
protect freedom of speech, religion and assembly, and privacy.
Since that first
Northampton resolution, over 400 towns, cities, and eight states have passed
similar resolutions.
We’ve helped pass local
laws against surveillance, profiling, and government secrecy, and stopped other
laws that restrict our liberty and rights.
We’ve had other victories over the years, in the states and in Congress.
For a brief shining moment in 2015, we even forced one of the worst provisions
of the PATRIOT Act to sunset.
There is still so much
work to be done, and the outlook may seem particularly dark right now, but, as
Nat Hentoff pointed out, “all through our history, dissent and resistance
have beaten back the darkness.”
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Contents of Bill of Rights DAY Newsletter #7, December 15, 2015 http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2015/12/bill-of-rights-day-december-15-2015.html
BORDC Celebrates the Bill
of rights 12-15-15
Center for Constitutional
Rights
Bill of Rights Institute
ACLU on the Patriot Act
Janine Parry on Equality
National Days Transformed
Contents Newsletter #6 Bill of Rights Day
December 15, 2014
Bill of Rights DAY 2014
ACLU Recent Supreme Court
Cases
ACLU State Affiliates
Celebrate Bill of Rights
Center for Constitutional
Rights CCR
Peter Van Buren, Shredding
the Fourth Amendment: NSA, Bush, Obama,
Snowden
Snowden
Thomas Frank, Rev. of
Zephyr Teachout’s Corruption in America: Integrity
of
Elections vs. Freedom of Expression for Corporations and Wealthy Individuals
Elections vs. Freedom of Expression for Corporations and Wealthy Individuals
FDR’s “Economic Bill of
Rights”
First Retail Workers’ Bill
of Rights
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RIGHTS DAY NEWSLETTER #8 DECEMBER 15, 2018
