Recent MCLI Appearances
March 21 &mdash MCLI prepared a flyer on Treaties the U.S. Has Ratified for the Teach-In on: Recognizing the Plight of the Undocumented at St. Mary Magdalene Parish, Berkeley, and Ann Ginger explained how to use the specific language in these treaties in working for the rights of immigrants.
"The most basic right in all U.N. treaties is the right of every human being to human dignity," Ginger said. "It is critical that all people in the U.S. start talking about this right the way we learned about the First Amendment and the privilege against self-incrimination in the Fifth Amendment during the McCarthy witch hunts."
MCLI Board Secretary Victoria Sawicki invited friends from her housing collective and others to hear about MCLI's new books: "Undoing the Bush-Cheney Legacy" and "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Is the Law." Ginger reports that it was a "lively event and MCLI made some new friends in Richmond."
Susan Scott, MCLI Board member and Sacramento solidarity lawyer, organized a very successful book party at Time-Tested Books, followed by a meaningful fund-raising event for MCLI at Southside Park Cohousing. Public defenders joined peace activists and lawyers in private practice recalling previous contacts with MCLI. One graduate of Ol' Miss Law School recalled his friendship with the late Tom Ginger, another Ol' Miss grad. The event would not have been possible without the efforts of Fran and Jack Kennedy, their daughter Annmarie, Don Knutson as well as all of Southside Park Cohousing and UN-A &mdash Thank You!
Women's International League for Peace & Freedom put on another very meaningful event on Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Quaker Meeting House in Santa Cruz where many women and men shared their recent work for immigrant rights and other civil rights, and Ann Ginger talked about how to use the treaties to sharpen this work.
Jan Goodman organized a party for MCLI in Westwood, Los Angeles at the home of Ralph Fertig after Ann Ginger appeared at the Yoo meeting at Chapman U. There was a lively discussion about the Universal Declaration and the actions and inactions of the Obama administration on undoing the Bush-Cheney Legacy.