This book grows out of an effort sponsored by the Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County, California, to examine the state of human rights in our county, to raise the public’s consciousness about human rights, & to urge the adoption of local, state & national government policies conducive to the enhancement of human rights.

Thanks are due to the many people in Santa Cruz County and elsewhere who, alongside the authors listed as Sources below, have contributed in their many different ways to the realization of this project: Pat Arnold, Paul Brindell, Lisa Button, Christine Johnson-Lyons, Elaine Kihara, Bill Minkowski, Troels Petersen, Jane Weed-Pomerantz.......