Defending and Promoting Civil Liberties
Southeastern Chapter ACLU-WV

Chapter Meeting

Sunday Feb. 6, 2005 in Lewisburg
Agenda items will include Flag Day 2005 update and WV Legislature Lobbying Day March 10, 2005.

Flag Day Celebration June 14th

© 2004 Mark Blumenstein

Panel Discussion on the Bill of Rights with Harry Belafonte a Success

By all accounts the Flag Day Celebration was a success. More than 450 people came to celebrate the principles of democracy and freedom that our flag stands for, and many became new ACLU members. The program was compelling enough to keep the audience for a full 3 hours as the discussion ran very long.

Flag Day 2004 Pictures

Keynote Speaker Harry Belafonte "spoke passionately about the need for protection of the Bill of Rights" (Beckley Register Herald 6/15/04), and the panel of community members moderated by Humanities Scholar Joan C. Browning discussed various Constitutional amendments. The event was videoed, and may be screened later.

The panelists shared views about the impact of the Bill of Rights on religious freedoms, the press, politics, law, justice and social equality.

• Keynote Speaker Harry Belafonte
• Moderator Joan C. Browning
• Frank Spicer, Editor WV Daily News
• The Honorable Mary Pearl Compton, former WV State Delegate
• Rev. Nelson Staples III, NAACP
• Rev. Dexter Taylor, Old Stone Presbyterian Ch.
• Dr. Richard Kerr, Libertarian Party of West Virginia, NRA
• E. Lavoyd "J.R." Morgan, attorney
• Allen Johnson, Director, Pocahontas County Library
• William D. Turner, attorney

Panelist Short Bio and Links

More about the Flag Day Celebration

Bill of Rights Essay Contest

Ms. Andrea Robertson, a Monroe County 12th Grader at James Monroe High School won the $100 cash prize. Her essay was about the second amendment.

Read the rules and more about the Bill of Rights Essay Contest, which we hope to repeat in 2005.

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