Annual Report Howard A. Friedman First Amendment Education Project S ince 1991, the Friedman Project has served high school teachers and students by providing substantive information about civil rights and civil liberties. All of the following student programs were designed, implemented, and evaluated by the ACLU Student Advisory Committee, a dedicated group of 35 high school students from as far away Sacramento, Modesto, San Jose, and Vallejo who met regularly throughout the year. With each program, a new group of students are attracted to the ACLU and join the Student Advisory Committee bringing creative ideas and energy for planning future events on student rights and liberties.
All programs are free to students.
This seventh annual conference provided over 1100 students from 55 high schools throughout northern California a unique opportunity to debate, discuss, and organize around key civil liberties issues including immigration, music censorship, regulating the internet, sexual harassment, and students' right to know. Theatre for Incarcerated Women. The students created an expose of their writing, poetry, artwork, and photographs from the trip and have been invited into classrooms throughout northern California to speak to their peers about what they learned about the juvenile justice system. Filmmaker Charlotte Lagarde volunteered her time and expertise to videotape the trip and created a documentary which is used in the classroom presentations. The Friedman Project is indebted to the many dedicated teachers who work closely with us and advise us about current needs in the field of education.