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1. 1. Echo magazine Phoenix public Library Internet porn filters

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   Published on: 9/24/2004   Last Visited: 9/24/2004

   At the city council meeting, AZCLU executive director Eleanor Eisenberg decried the change of the filters, not for their ban on pornography, but for the likely blocking of perfectly allowable content: GLBT magazines, health information about sex and sexually transmitted diseases, and other "objectionable" subjects. Eisenberg compared the Internet filtering to book banning, and book burning, saying "I don't think we want to return to that era" by using an inexact piece of computer programming. The filters would fail a free speech test in court, she added. "There is no technology that exists to take only the illegal material out," she said.

2. 2. Meet The Executive Director

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   Published on: 12/27/2003   Last Visited: 12/27/2003

   ELEANOR EISENBERG Executive Director
   
   After an extensive nationwide search, Eleanor Eisenberg of Santa Cruz, California was unanimously recommended by the AzCLU Search Committee and approved by the AzCLU Board of Directors to take over as Executive Director of the AzCLU. Members of the Search Committee said Eleanor's background as a long-time ACLU leader and activist and her management experience of non-profit agencies helped her stand out from the many other quality applicants.
   
   A passionate supporter of the Bill of Rights, Eleanor has been an active member of the ACLU for 30 years. She has served on the Board of Directors of the ACLU of Northern California and sat on the Legal, Executive and Budget Management Committees of that affiliate. She was also a volunteer attorney, Board Member, Chair of the Board and spokesperson for the Santa Cruz chapter of the ACLU. She was named the ACLU, Santa Cruz 1996 Civil Libertarian of the Year.
   
   As an experienced manager of several non-profit agencies, Eleanor has the professional qualifications necessary to run the affiliate. For a decade, she was the Executive Director of the Legal Aid Society of Santa Cruz County. She served as Executive Director of the Socorro Society, an organization devoted to expanding and enhancing the delivery of services to the poor through pro bono representation. In 1993, she was a founding partner of the Women's Law & Mediation Center of Santa Cruz, a law firm specializing in employment, discrimination and other matters of importance to women.
   
   Eleanor earned a bachelor's degree from Bard College and received her law degree from Glendale University. "I became a lawyer to work in the public interest with a special focus on equal access, civil rights and women's issues," she said. She has three grown children, two daughters and one son, living in New York, Sacramento and Bangkok.
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   In June, Eleanor and Katrina worked together to familiarize Eleanor with the affiliate and the community.
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   In June, Eleanor and Katrina worked together to familiarize Eleanor with the affiliate and the community.
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   This summer, Eleanor wrapped up her private practice law and mediation services business in California. She began working full time for the AzCLU in September 1997

3. 3. Thou shalt remove the monument?

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   Published on: 8/5/2003   Last Visited: 8/5/2003

   The ACLU is not out to get religion in general or Christians in particular," said Eleanor Eisenberg, AzCLU executive director. "We are speaking out for the Constitution."
   
   Religious figures are different from religious teachings, Eisenberg said. There is nothing wrong with honoring a historical figure who happened to be a religious leader, she explained, and the statue of Braun does not bear any religious quotations.
   
   The plaques at the foot of Braun's statue state that he was an Army chaplain in World War I and World War II and came to Arizona in 1949. He was a teacher and missionary to Native American tribes in New Mexico and Arizona and helped establish the Sacred Heart Church in Phoenix and St. Joseph's Church in Mescalero, N.M.
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   The AzCLU's request to remove the Ten Command-ments monument is in line with efforts nationwide to remove religious teachings and displays on public property maintained by public funds, said Eisenberg.
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   AzCLU leaders are awaiting a decision from the state about the monument's removal, Eisenberg said.
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   If the state fails to act, then AzCLU leaders will ask a federal judge to remove the monument, Eisenberg said.
   
   She said that even though AzCLU is attempting to remove the Ten Com-mandments monument from Wesley Bolin Plaza, it is not trying to eliminate religion from public places.
   
   "We just want standards of how religion is expressed in the public arena," and the standards must be guided by the Constitution, she said.
   
   Contact the writer at barry cohen@jewishaz.com.