About BCAD

About BCAD:

Members:
By way of introduction, the members of the Bradford County Alliance for Democracy (BCAD) see ourselves as a group of civic minded people who put our beliefs into practice. Many of us have been active in Bradford County for over 30 years. Over these years, many of us have been instrumental in founding Barclay Friends School, Sage House (the safe house for non-adjudicated youth), the Abuse and Rape Crisis Center, the Bradford County Task Force to End Corporal Punishment in Public Schools, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, the Area Agency on Aging, The Norther Tier Solid Waste Authority, Bradford County People for Peace, Bradford County League of Women Voters, the Stop The Hate group, the county-wide soccer program in Bradford County, the Towanda Friends Meeting, and Citizens for Press Responsibility at the Daily Review (CPR@DR). All of these programs and institutions have been successful and have been beneficial to our area. Many of us have been members of committees serving our public schools, public libraries, youth sports, other civic organizations, and in our religious institutions. Most of us are parents who have or have had children in our public schools.

As members of BCAD, we have conducted most of our activities quietly and without publicity in an effort to resolve problems quickly. We have sought peaceful, long-term solutions while conducting ourselves in the spirit that everyone should be respected. This approach has usually worked. Unfortunately, this approach is not always effective. For example, because we failed to get the cooperation of The Daily Review to clean up its editorial practices we were instrumental in forming the Citizens for Press Responsibility @ The Daily Review in 2000 which produced a number of thoroughly researched reports about the unethical editorial practices of The Daily Review.

Policies:
The BCAD supports civil rights, intellectual freedom and opposes censorship in any medium, equal civil rights for sexual minorities, non violence in our homes and communities including ending corporal punishment in our schools and ending capital punishment for any crime, strong public schools, religious liberty including separation of church and state, and a women’s right to control her body and make her own decisions concerning reproduction. In addition, we support values that are essential to a healthy democracy including diversity or inclusiveness; tolerance; dissent and the right to be heard; the search for truth as found through a search for objective, factual information as the foundation for resolving conflicts; compromise as a means for resolving problems; election by the people; and the freedom and rights for citizens protected by the United States and Pennsylvania Constitutions.

Contact Us: Email: mail@bcad.info