1972 .

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30,
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B.C. civil liberties

The B.C. Civil Liberties
Association, which takes up the
cases of people whose basic
m freedoms have been curtailed,
aor who suffer discrimination, is
mnow in the middle of plans to
ma broaden its base of operations
throughout the province.
eprovince, ~

It hopes that people outside

‘the greater Vancouver area
‘who are interested: in civil

liberties will get in touch with
the Association, and help it to
maintain contact with their

’ communities. The address is

Suite 414, 207 West Hastings,
Vancouver.

_Association

One of buildings in K’San Village near Hazelton,

association plans to broaden operations

Over the past year, the
has been
developing kits for schools and
community groups, and other
educational material. Four
booklets are available: at
nominal cost: Youth and the
Law, Landlord and Tenant

Rights, Welfare Rights and

Discrimination. .

The Association has members
from all walks of life and
Tepresenting all shades of
political opinion. The members
of the board, who are the

governing body, serve volun-—

tarily.

And Association pamphlet
says, “We need everybody who
knows how hard it has been to
win our freedom of speech, our
freedom of religion, our
freedom from discrimination,
our freedom to join associations

shields, home-made masks of
water-coaked cloths, rocks and
Molotov cocktails, :

The brief described this as a
“dangerous and _ insane”
escalation of the level of war-
fare,”

Copies of this brief are.
available on request,

(2.) Censorship: book ana
magazine vendors. The BCCLA
has. recently sent a letter’ to
Attorney-General Leslie
Peterson, taking exception to
police action regarding raids on-

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_@ bookstores selling alleged
“obscene” material.

The Association took the
stand that by seizing 50 to 500
copies of books‘and magazines,
instead of the required two or
three for use as court evidence,

‘the police were creating
enormous financial ‘pressure
upon bookstore owners because

cases the periedicals would become

ome involving ,, outdated and unsalable even
» Bast Indiana, nate ea ing should. proprietors win
* women, “people .withulong hair 4} favourable judgment... ,,, tu
and other groups. The com- ; Although .totally opposed. to
plaints have to do with hiring "4 i eer aaa
. practices renting andso.on.~
. There have also been many
censorship cases, ._¢ a
One of the relatively new, but
growing areas of concern arises -
- from decisions made by
| governments agencies like the
’ Unemployment Insurance
Commission, the Workmen's

and the right to due process.
- “We need everybody who
realizes that these freedoms
must be constantly protected
against small-erosions,’’
A rundown of the BCCLA's
- activities shows how sur-
prisingly often rights that
people take for granted are

Discrimination

Be Compensaion

‘Board and the’ Welfare

‘Department, and how 2 person
who thinks he has been treated
unfairly can have redress.

Charges of police brutality
are occasionally brought to the
_ Association and lookedinto. The “|

Assocaition has, for some time, -
‘been trying to improve relations -
between the police and the.

“* community in the Vancouver

area, where friction has oc-
‘curred. ‘
Recently the Association
presented a brief to’ Vancouver
City Council on the question of
. buying protective equipment
‘the police, suggesting that in ||
| the long run an egcalationin |
. equipment by the police would
only intensify confrontation,
. and would doboth the police and
the communty more harm than
‘good. The. question arose
following 2 disturbance outside:
the Vancouver Coliseum during:
4 concert of the Rolling Stones
rock group, ,
BCCLA knows from experience .
that in defending civil liberties
. principles it also sometimes has
to take up cases that are not too -“#
popular with the public. But it _ |
also ‘knows from experience «
that over time the public has.
come to recognize the basic, & a
rightness of the Association's |. 1970 * Q

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censorship, the BCCLA inview

. of present legislation, urged the

Attorney-General, as chief law
enforcement officer in British
Columbia, to ‘adopt a more
libéral poliey in dealing with the
vendors and to allow the public
to decide what it should read.

(3) Discrimination: Long
hair. In April, the Association
sponsored a “mock” demon-
stration outside the Vancouver
offices of Papific Western

Airlines, protesting the com-—

pany’s edict to employees
requiring. short hair and
sideburns, A handbill was
distributed depicting Prime
Minister Trudeu, and inquiring
~ “Would you hire this man as a
baggage handler?” Mr.
Trudeau would be turned down
for (he jab by PWA, because of

Surinder Kurnar . Malhotra,

27, who arrived in Canada Last

May has -finally obtained per- .

migation

. Mission from ‘the immig

officials to work in'‘Canada. All

that remaing is to-find’» job.”

Mr. Malhotra hag a Masters
Degree in English ‘and has

taught school in: his native

Punjab province of India. He
also majored in mathematics.

Our’ readers may have
noticed in recent editions of the
Terrace Herald some of the

_ Speaking to the writer ‘thig . |
morning Mr.’: Malhotra . éx-
. pressed a keen desire to rerhain
in this area’ and for this: reason

‘ iganxious to find work here. He

has ‘na preferences” in - this
Tegard and said “1 would very
mutch like to finda job here and
will accept any position’’, ;

-If any potential employer’
‘would like to chat ‘with’ Mr.

Malhotre he can be reached by

poetry contributed by Mr. telephone at 635-7589.

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