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- From: kadie@hal.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: >>ACLU -- INFO<<
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- <*>Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 01:13:48 -0600
- <*>From: "\"Carl M. Kadie\"" <kadie@hal.cs.uiuc.edu>
- <*>To: harelb@math.cornell.edu
- <*>
- <*>With the ACLU's permission I've put some of their material on-line.
- <*>Here is the README file for the anonymous ftp archive that
- <*>contains the material.
- <*>
- <*>- Carl
- <*>[Feel free to post this.]
-
- "ftp eff.org:pub/academic/civil-liberty/README"
-
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- README
- =================
- * Civil Liberty Archive
- [part of the Computers and Academic Freedom (CAF) Archive
- [part of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Archive]]
-
- This is an on-line collection of civil liberty statements. It includes
- Briefing Papers from the American Civil Liberties Union. (The ACLU
- material is made available by permission of the American Civil
- Liberties Union)
-
- If you have gopher, the archive is browsable with the command:
- gopher -p academic/civil-liberty gopher.eff.org
-
- The archive is also accessible via anonymous ftp and email. Ftp to
- ftp.eff.org (192.88.144.4). It is in directory
- "pub/academic/civil-liberty". For email access, send email to
- archive-server@eff.org. Include the line:
-
- send acad-freedom/civil-liberty <filenames>
-
- where <filenames> is a list of the files that you want. File README is
- a detailed description of the items in the directory.
-
- For more information, to make contributions, or to report typos
- contact J.S. Greenfield (greeny@eff.org).
-
- =================
- README.subject-index
- =================
- * Subject Index for Civil Liberty Archive
-
- =================
- aclu.aclu
- =================
- * Guardian of Liberty: American Civil Liberties Union -- ACLU Briefing Paper #1
-
- Contents:
- The ACLU Mandate
- What rights are guaranteed in the Bill of Rights?
- A Brief History
- How the ACLU Chooses Its Cases
- How the ACLU Works
- The Financial Picture
-
- =================
- aclu.history
- =================
- * A History of the ACLU -- Ira Glasser Speech
-
- A transcript of a speech by Ira Glasser (ACLU national director, at the time),
- before the National Press Club, Washington, DC. on October 6, 1988. The speech
- details the history of the ACLU and its work.
-
- =================
- aclu.membership-form
- =================
- * 1992 ACLU Membership Form
-
- A reproduction of the 1992 ACLU membership form.
-
- =================
- aids.aclu
- =================
- * AIDS and Civil-Liberties -- ACLU Briefing Paper #13
-
- Answers these questions:
-
- What is "HIV" and what is "AIDS"?
- What are the facts about how HIV spreads?
- Can HIV disease be cured?
- Doesn't HIV mainly afflict gay men and drug addicts?
- To stop the spread of HIV, shouldn't the government require all citizens
- to be tested?
- But why shouldn't the government provide lists of people who test positive
- for HIV?
- Does the law protect the rights of people with HIV disease?
- How do these anti-discrimination laws work?
- But shouldn't employers be able to fire people with HIV disease?
- Don't HIV-infected health care workers pose enough of a risk to their
- patients to be prohibited from working?
- Shouldn't school children with HIV disease be kept home?
- Have the courts enforced these principles in cases involving
- discrimination against people with HIV disease?
- Wouldn't the distribution of clean needles and condoms promote drug use
- and promiscuity?
- Should laws be enacted to punish those who deliberately try to spread HIV
- disease?
- Should suspected or convicted rapists be forced to take HIV tests?
- Shouldn't the government censor education about HIV on the ground that
- it's obscene?
-
- =================
- amendment2.co.usa
- =================
- AMENDMENT 2 (AMENDING THE COLORADO CONSTITUTION)
- "Neither the State of Colorado, through any of its branches or
- departments, nor any of its agencies, political subdivisions,
- municipalities or school districts, shall enact, adopt or enforce
- any statute, regulation, ordinance or policy whereby homosexual,
- lesbian, or bisexual orientation, conduct, practices or
- relationships shall constitute or otherwise be the basis of or
- entitle any person or class of persons to have or claim any
- minority status, quota preferences, protected status, or claim of
- discrimination."
-
-
- =================
- artistic-freedom.aclu
- =================
- * Artistic Freedom -- ACLU Briefing Paper #14
-
- Answers these questions:
-
- What protects the work of artists from government censorship?
- When and how did the threat to artistic freedom emerge in this country?
- How has the Supreme Court dealt with sexually explicit expression?
- Why does the ACLU object to the obscenity exception to the First Amendment?
- But don't obscene and pornographic works cause anti-social and even
- violent behavior?
- Even if the government can't suppress art, surely it shouldn't use
- tax monies to fund art that offends!?
- Why does the ACLU object to movie ratings, music labeling, or other
- voluntary rating systems? Don't they give guidance to consumers,
- especially parents?
- But mustn't we protect our children from inappropriate messages and
- images, especially graphic sex and violence?
- Defending artists is fine, but why does the ACLU spend time and money
- defending pornographers and sleaze merchants?
-
- =================
- bill-of-rights.history.aclu
- =================
- * A History of the Bill of Rights -- ACLU Briefing Paper #9
-
- Contents:
-
- The Origins Of Liberty
- The Constitutional Convention
- Ratification Of The Constitution
- The First Congress
- Ratification Of The Bill Of Rights
- Rights Declared, But Justice Denied
- The Fourth Branch
-
- =================
- campaign-92.aclu
- =================
- * Campaign for the Bill of Rights '92 -- ACLU
-
- The American Civil Liberties Union's planks for its "Campaign for the
- Bill of Rights '92". The planks are 1) a national campaign against
- bigotry and racism, 2) constitutional protection for a woman's right
- to choose, 3) a realistic approach to crime and punishment, 4) a Bill
- of Rights for all working people.
-
- =================
- censorship.survey
- =================
- * Censorship of Books at Public Schools -- Survey Results
-
- This article summarizes the findings of the tenth annual survey on book
- censorship in public schools, conducted by the People for the American
- Way. The survey found the number of challenges (and successful challenges)
- of books to be at a ten-year high.
-
- =================
- church-and-state.aclu
- =================
- * Church and State -- ACLU Briefing Paper #3
-
- Answers these questions:
-
- Were people free to practice their religious beliefs in colonial times?
- Does the phrase "separation of church and state" actually appear in
- the constitution?
- Our nation was founded by religious individuals, and some
- manifestations of the religious aspects of our history and culture are
- inevitable. So what does separation mean exactly?
- Is prayer in public schools constitutional if it is optional?
- Can children pray in school at all?
- Why can't schools be required by law to teach the biblical theory of
- the earth's origins-- "creationism"--in addition to teaching evolution?
- If students can meet on school grounds in extra-curricular political
- or social groups, can't they also meet in religious groups?
- Since religious day schools are educating the children of taxpayers,
- can't the government assist those schools?
- Religious facilities sometimes house services like daycare and foster
- care for the general public. Is it constitutional for those programs
- to receive government funds?
- Why does the ACLU oppose religious displays on public property during
- the Christmas season?
- If the government cannot be involved with religion, does that mean the
- clergy cannot speak out on political issues?
- Should the Catholic Church lose its tax exempt status because its
- officials are involved in lobbying against abortion and birth control?
- Are members of religious "cults" also protected by the Establishment Clause?
- Can individuals whose religious beliefs conflict with certain laws
- receive special consideration from government?
-
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- civil-liberty-index
- =================
- * About the Civil Liberty Index mailing list
-
- A description of the civil-liberty-index mailing list. It is a
- moderated list for the distribution of indexes of "newsy" civil
- liberties articles. All the articles are from Netnews, most are from
- ClariNet's commerical UPI service. To read the UPI articles, you need
- access to ClariNet.
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