Tell Everyone: Dissent Is Patriotic
The First Amendment guarantees what some might consider the most fundamental freedoms that define our nation. The ongoing Occupy Wall Street protest is spreading from the streets of New York to cities and towns all across America, and the right t...
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Mapping the FBI – Map
The ACLU has uncovered documents that show that FBI field offices around the country are engaged in unconstitutional and widespread stereotyping.
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5 More Years in Prison for a Making a Phone Call
It's hard to open a newspaper these days without finding an article about California's myriad criminal justice troubles. From the Plata decision ordering the state to reduce the population of its prisons, to the hunger strike by prisoners protestin...
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ACLU Intervenes After Apartment Complex Discriminates Against Domestic Violence Survivor
Florida Woman Denied Rental After Refusing to Provide Information That Would Jeopardize Family FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.org ATLANTA – The American Civil Liberties Union filed a housing discrimination compl...
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Concord Slammed the Door in My Face Because I Wanted to Protect My Children
My name is Hope. I am survivor of domestic violence. To protect myself, I fled from my husband and changed my name and social security number. I have sole custody of two children from this abusive relationship. I never changed my children's names or...
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Anita Hill: Still Powerful 20 Years Later
This month marks the 20th anniversary of Anita Hill's testimony at Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Twenty years ago, in the face of extreme pressure, Professor Hill recounted the ways that Thomas, who had been her boss at the E...
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Tennessee High School Affirms Students’ First Amendment Rights After Dispute Over Gay-Straight Alliance
Sequoyah High School Will Review Dress Code and Agrees That Student Is Allowed to Express Support for Club FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 19, 2011 CONTACT: Lindsay Kee, ACLU of Tennessee, (615) 320-7142 x304 Robyn Shepherd, ACLU national, (917) ...
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ACLU Studio: A Fall from Grace, or Business as Usual at Guantánamo?
Many people saw the torture and abuse of prisoners and indefinite detention at Guantánamo Bay in the wake of 9/11 as a fall from grace. Harvard Historian, Jonathan Hansen disagrees. “America,” he says, “scarcely has any gra...
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Execution Based On Lies
Manuel Velez was sentenced to death in 2008 for the murder of a 1-year-old boy based on the false testimony of his live-in girlfriend and mother of the child. The woman, Acela Moreno, failed to admit she had separately pleaded guilty to inflicting h...
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U.S. Must Explain Targeted Killings of Its Own Citizens
Today the ACLU filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking information about the legal and factual basis for the targeted killings of three U.S. citizens in Yemen. Last month, Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan were killed when unmanned d...
Categories: Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, Anwar Al-Aulaqi, Anwar Al-Awlaki, Benjamin Wittes, Carl Levin, Dianne Feinstein, drone, drones, Jack Goldsmith, John Bellinger III, John Yoo, Samir Khan, targeted killings Tags: