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The Peoria Chapter of the Illinois ACLU
(American Civil Liberties Union)
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President: Paul Miller
Vice-president: Judy Stalling
Secretary and Newsletter Editor: Elaine Hopkins
Treasurer: Bernard Hickey
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Links to blogs, below
  Site updated: May 28, 2013

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Peoria ACLU Meetings

-- Open to all members & friends --

The Board of Directors of the Peoria ACLU meets at 7 p.m. on the 4th Tuesday of every month (except December) in the conference room of the Universalist-Unitarian Church at 3000 W. Richwoods Boulevard, Peoria.


The Peoria chapter's monthly discussion night takes place
at 7 p.m. on the 2nd Thursday of the month at
The Rhythm Kitchen,
305 SW Water Street, on the waterfront, Peoria.

ACLU Peoria Blog is UP
Click here to view it.
Email the webmaster to join it.
WARNING:  I'm new at this--it WILL have bugs for a while.

And if that's not enough:
You can have your own ACLU Peoria Email address:
yourname@aclupeoria.org.

Email me above if you're interested.

 

Calendar of Events


Friends of Rocky Glen Fun Day
Saturday, June 22

Their website here

The Annual ACLU Pot-Luck Picnic:
June 25, 6:00 p.
Lower Bradley Park

Bring Table Service, Dish to Pass, non-alcoholic beverage.

The 2013 Newsletter is available here.

Listen to Don Jackson's Talk at the 2012
ACLU Peoria Annual Dinner:  Concealed Carry
Go here to read a commentary about the talk.
Click to download the ACLU Spring,
2012 Newsletter:
p. 1 and/or p. 2


JD Wheeler Memorial Project
Click here for online information about the Illinois Judicial By-Pass Coordination Project, about Illinois' parental notification laws regarding teen-age abortions and teens seeking a judicial by-pass.

A special hello to our Macomb-area members

For more information, click on and Email one of the linked officers, above.

Links to webites or articles of interest to ACLU members (found by the webmaster or forwarded from members & friends)

Please note - this feature is for the interest of readers only.  If you have an article, editorial, etc. that you think members and friends of Peoria ACLU might find interesting/fun, please send the link to the webmaster.

The Illinois ACLU Activity Report for June of 2012 posted here.
A site reader has asked that we post this graphic related to police brutality; her website is here.
YouTube movie:  prayer in schools and the Kearny, New Jersey Controversy - 1 hour documentary film
Read the "Freedom from Religion" forum letter from Jeffrey Johnson, current ACLU Peoria board member
Read Mike Bailey's Editorial in the May 17th, 2012 Peoria Journal-Star
Watch "Republican Women" endorse Limits on their bodies.  This is very clever.
Read Intro & Chapter 1 of Paul Krugman's new book End this Depression Now

Know a story you think should be linked here? Email the webmaster or the chapter president.

Blogs and Sites of local Peoria interest:


Email the webmaster