Tickets for the 2009 Bill of Rights Celebration with Rachel Maddow on Saturday, May 16 can no longer be purchased on-line. To inquire about ticket availability and purchase options, please contact ACLU of Utah Development Director Anna Brower at (801) 521-9862 ext 100 or abrower@acluutah.org.

The Bill of Rights Celebration is the ACLU of Utah's annual fundraising dinner. It is also your chance to spend an energetic evening with like-minded people who believe in this country's most fundamental values, as presented in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

In this difficult and uncertain time in our history, we need to remember to celebrate our progress together - and energize one another for the challenges ahead as we work for "An America We Can Be Proud Of!"

Saturday, May 16, 2009
6:00 to 7:00 - Cocktail Hour
7:00 to 9:00 - Dinner, Awards & Program
Regular Tickets: $100 (Low/Fixed-Income Reduced Rate: $60)
VIP Tickets: $250 (includes VIP reception with Rachel Maddow)

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Send checks to ACLU of Utah, 355 N. 300 W., Salt Lake City, UT 84103

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This year, the Bill of Rights Celebration will feature Rachel Maddow, of MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show," and a regular guest pundit on various cable news outlets. "The explosive star of the season," (according to The Nation), Maddow also happens to be a former ACLU staff member! Her intelligent, uncompromising and often very funny commentary - on Air America and then on MSNBC - carried many Americans through the painful years of the Bush Administration and a rough-and-tumble presidential election.

- Watch Rachel charm the socks off John Stewart on the Daily Show!
- See her hold her own with Stephen Colbert of the Colbert Report!
- Rachel easily schools Tucker Carlson in this vintage clip...
- ...and dissects myths about who voted how on Prop 8.

As part of our annual celebration, we will be recognizing our 2009 Youth Activist Scholarship Award winners: James Jorgen of Moab, Mariam Meite of Logan, and Kristin Dobbin of Salt Lake City.

These are indeed trying times as we work renew America in the face of great economic challenges and in the aftermath of years of disastrous civil liberties roll-backs. There is much to be done - but also great optimism to be shared! We hope that you will join us for this special evening to celebrate the best our nation has to offer, and to create a new vision of An America We Can Be Proud Of!