Victory for privacy rights
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their support. Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, and Kris Kristofferson appeared in San Francisco. Raul Julia, who played Romero in the film of that name, and Ed Asner were both featured in Washingtor, D.C.
In San Francisco, the vice president of the ATU local, representing the Greyhound strikers, addressed the rally.
Regional Director Rev. Bill Davis in a series of Bay Area meetings as follows:
• Tony Avirgan: April 25, 7:30 p.m., Montclair Presbyterian Church, 5701 On Feb. 27, 1990, in a landmark decision, the Washington State Supreme Court unanimously overturned a 1987 order from a lower court against the Freedom Socialist Party (FSP). Now the minutes of membership organizations falls within the range of constitutionally protected information.
Seven years ago, Richard Snedigar, a former member of FSP, filed suit in the King County Superior Court to try to force the FSP to give him back $22,500 he contributed to help the organization relocate to a new office after they had received an eviction notice from their old building at Freedom Hall. Thus the "Freedom Hall Case" was born. Snedigar wanted to make the FSP give him the minutes of meetings to prove that he was unfairly persuaded to part with the $22,500.
The late Leonard Boudin, an internationally respected civil rights attorney, defended the FSP's right to keep their meeting minutes confidential in the Freedom Hall case until his death Nov. 24, 1989.
Thanks to his persistence and to all the men and women who contributed to this struggle, a victory has been scored for privacy and free speech for unions and for civil rights and other political organizations.