Rights Group Plans Parley

A statewide human rights organization will hold its annual conference in Santa Ana next month, including discussions of such issues as AIDS, the movement to make English the state’s official language, religious and ethnic violence and undocumented workers.

The San Jose-based group, California Assn. of Human Rights Organizations, will hold the 13th annual “training conference” at the Saddleback Inn for three days beginning at 11 a.m. May 29. It will be the first time the group has met in the county.

Speakers will include the Rev. Cecil Williams, minister of Glide Memorial United Methodist Church in San Francisco, and Marty Mercado, director of the state Commission on Racial, Religious and Ethnic Violence.

The group’s stated goal is to “promote full acceptance of all persons in all aspects of community life without regard to any arbitrary definition of differences.”