[Peace] BORDC

[Dorothy Martirano]

Check out this excerpt of the article below, and the link to BORDC

full article at:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/11.26C.hentoff.rising.htm


Resistance Rising!
True Patriots Networking
Nat Hentoff
Village Voice
Friday, 22 November, 2002

......But what is most encouraging is the continued growth in cities and
towns throughout the nation of Bill of Rights Defense
Committees or their equivalents, a number of which are working with ACLU
affiliates. The first BORDC, as reported here, was formed in February
this year in Northampton, Massachusetts, when about 300 doctors, nurses,
lawyers, students, teachers, and retirees formed a group to protect the
citizens of that town from the USA Patriot Act and the subsequent
unilateral attacks on our liberties by John Ashcroft.

After the Northampton city council unanimously passed in May a
resolution officially supporting the protests of the BORDC,
other towns and cities learned how to organize similar committees
through the Northampton group's Web site: www.bordc.org.
Fourteen town or city councils--from Takoma Park, Maryland, and Alachua
County, Florida, to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and
Berkeley, California--have now passed, sometimes unanimously, similar
resolutions originated by local BORDC organizations. Other, proposals
are pending before local government bodies in 40 more cities and towns,
in 24 states. One BORDC is in formation in New York City.