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Ramon Ramirez, Northwest Treeplanters
and Farmworkers United president, will he the
keynote speaker. In honor of Earth Day, ROP
will distribute “Seeds of Derruxiracy" packets
containing tools for growing justice.
Workshops will focus on the upcoming elec
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Entertainment will he provided by the Southern
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The caucus registration fee, which includes a
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Mechanics With A Conscience
(and x-ray vision)
T rial
n a nine-day trial that started March 25
before the U.S. District Court in Philadel
phia, the American Civil Liberties U nion pre
sented testimony from
librarians,
patrons,
Web site authors and
technology experts to
explain why a federal
law passed in Decem
ber 2000 that forces
libraries to censor
constitutionally pro
tected speech online
should he struck down
permanently.
T he
C hildren’s
Internet Protection
A ct ties funding to
the mandated use of
blocking programs on
Internet
terminals
used by both adults
and minors in public
libraries. “Librarians
are uniquely qualified
to
teach
library
patrons how to find
the content they want
and avoid inappropri
ate content without
the government try
ing to deputize them
T hanks to the A C LU , lesbian teen Emma Rood finally is getting her
into the
thought
day in court
police,” said A nn Bee
son, a member of the ACLU legal team.
consolidated the two cases. Any appeal of the deci
Emma Rtxxl, a lesbian teen from Portland, is sion will go straight to the U.S. Supreme G>urt,
one of the library patrons suing the federal gov
which is required to hear challenges to this law.
ernment. O ther clients include a 15-year-old
African American girl and her aunt, who do not
C hief ' s F orum
have Internet access at home in Philadelphia; I
H onors O fficer
two congressional candidates whose Web sites
were blocked; PlanetOut.com, a leading site for
he Portland Police Bureau C hief’s Forum
sexual minorities; and Planned Parenthood Fed
presented its annual community policing
eration of America, whose site provides repro awards April 1. The citations were developed to
ductive health care information.
acknowledge civilians, organizations and
Long before blocking programs ever became
employees for their contributions.
an issue, libraries have made it their mission to
Detective Sgt. David Yamasaki received a
help people find exactly the information they
Certificate of Appreciation “for his work with
need, whether it is online or on paper. But “the
minority groups and the positive way he per
law makes it impossible for us to do our jobs,"
forms his duties." According to Norm G ista of
said G innie Cooper, M ultnom ah C ounty
the Sexual Minorities Roundtable, the police
Library director, who testified March 25.
officer was honored for his work with the queer
N onetheless, libraries now must install I community in investigating bias crimes.
I
a u t o m o t i v e
on
“blocking technology measures” or forfeit feder
al funds. T he law defines such measures as “a
specific technology that blocks or filters Internet
access” such as the commercially available pro
grams X-Stop and CyberPatrol.
The ACLU also presented testimony from
experts to prove the software irrationally and
arbitrarily censors constitutionally protected
speech. Examples of sites that were blocked after
erroneously being identified as having sexually
explicit or pornographic content: www.the-strip-
pers.com (a wixxJ varnish removal service),
www.redhotmama.com (a California event plan
ner), www.muchlove.org (an animal rescue
organization) and www.cancerftr.wkmc.com (a
hospital radiation oncology department).
“The flaws in blcx:king programs are not a mat
ter of individual flaws in individual products; they
are inevitable given the task and the limitations of
the technology,” said Chris Hansen, an ACLU
senior staff attorney. “Everyone from a congres
sional panel to Consumer Reports to parents have
found blocking programs to be unworkable."
In contrast, librarians already use their profes
sional skills to help patrons who access the Inter
net. Such methods include establishing policies
prohibiting access to illegal content; the use of
handouts, online guides, training sessions and rec
ommended Web pages; providing terminals with
optional rather than mandatory blocking soft
ware; and the use of wraparound privacy screens
to maintain a non threatening environment.
The American Library Association has filed a
similar suit on behalf of its members; the court has