Upcoming Events

Fourth of July Parade

Celebrate the birth of our nation by marching with us in the Redwood City Parade on the Fourth of July.  Email us for time and gathering place.

Monthly Board Meetings

Our board meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month at 7:00pm.   You are welcome to come, even if you aren't currently an ACLU member.    The next meeting will be March 23, 2010.

Friends Meeting House
957 Colorado Avenue
Palo Alto, California 94303-3802

(note:  This is the Quaker Church in a residential neighborhood.  It's a little hard to find.  We are in a room at the back of the parking lot.  It can be a dark parking lot in winter.)

Past Events

• Oct. 6, 2009:  Annual Dinner with speaker Ann Brick on Transparency under the Obama Administration
• May 17, 2009:  School Bias and Pushout Event
  We invited speakers to talk on our school system and it's relationship to the prison system.  Click here to see video of the event.
• Dec. 7, 2008   Bill of Rights Day
  The celebration was at the Regency Hotel on Van Ness in San Francisco.  Over 1000 civil rights proponents attended. 
• Annual Meeting, Oct. 28, 2008
  Our annual dinner-meeting was held at Michael's Restaurant in Shoreline Park, Mountain View.  Keynote speaker,  Assemblywoman Sally Lieber, spoke on "Juvenile Justice in California". 
• Redwood City Fourth of July Parade, July 4, 2008
  Promoting fun and awareness, our Statues-of-Liberty marched in this well organized parade.  Come march with us in 2009!!
  
• False Convictions Event, May 3, 2008
  A falsely-convicted man, a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, and the leader of the ACLU death penalty program showed us just how wrong the criminal justice system can be.  The highlights are well worth watching.  
• Mid-Peninsula ACLU Annual Member Dinner | Oct. 4, 2007
                           
  
• Wine and Cheese Spring Party - May 12, 2007
• Clarence Darrow: The Search for Justice | January 20, 2007
• Bill of Rights Day Celebration | December 10, 2006
• Annual Dinner | October 26, 2006
• Gay Pride Parade | June 3, 2006
• Wine & Chocolate Spring Party | April 8, 2006
  

 

Amendment 1

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.