Ramona Ripston: A leftist Southern California icon puts down her torch

Ramona Ripston, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, will retire after nearly 40 years in the post.Before a crowd of 800 in a Beverly Wilshire Hotel ballroom, a series of prominent figures from politics, entertainment and law are taking the podium to praise the career of Ramona Ripston, Los Angeles' tough-talking doyenne of civil liberties.

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