After seven months of urging, the Kalamazoo City Commission passed a resolution in support of civil liberties. The resolution, affirming the multi-cultural nature of the community, committed the City to define and protect civil liberties threatened by the Patriot Act and other administrative actions of the federal government. LWVKA was a founding member of the Task Force for the Defense of the Bill of Rights along with the ACLU, NAACP and ADA (American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee). The City of Kalamazoo has now joined nearly 200 other communities in expressing concern about federal actions which threaten our civil rights. For more information about the resolution, log on the ADC Website: http://www.adckazoo.com/news-168.htm.