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Group to honor Bill of Rights Day with March and Memorial on Monday

This is an advance story (which is essentially just my press release, cleaned up a little) about the Bill of Rights Day activity that I'm organizing. I'm saving the text of it here as it was published at Yubanet.

(This will eventually be posted at my main blog, but it's not functioning properly, so I'm using this blog as a backup place to put these entries.)

Group to honor Bill of Rights Day with March and Memorial on Monday

By Lance Brown, Nevada County Bill of Rights Defense Committee
Dec 13, 2003, 08:43

Local civil liberties activists will be holding a memorial service and march for the Bill of Rights in Nevada City this Monday-- Bill of Rights Day. The group will gather outside the Rood County Government Center at Noon, and march to Calanan Park in downtown Nevada City.

All interested parties are invited to attend.

This marks the third consecutive year that local activists have held a public commemoration of Bill of Rights Day -- the anniversary of the ratification of the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution. A "funeral" last year preceded this year's memorial, and in 2001 the day was marked with a rally.

The event is part of an ongoing local campaign to raise awareness about what the group sees as grave dangers to our civil liberties that have come in the wake of the “war on terror”. The Nevada County Bill of Rights Defense Committee is launching a drive to pass local resolutions making Nevada County a "civil liberties safe zone", as part of a national movement where over 200 communities (and three states) have passed similar resolutions.

For more local information, call 274-2474 or visit ncrights.org.