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White Rivers, Brown Skin, and Black Deeds: Into the Rabbit Hole of Border Detentions and Racial Profiling

Hamdan Azhar | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Muslims, BORDER ISSUES, Racial Profiling, Canada, Homeland Security, Aclu, Civil Liberties, National Security, Customs and Border Protection, Politics News

The evil of profiling is that it dehumanizes its victims, stripping them of their individuality. The border officials didn't see me as a writer or as a wide-eyed student in the grip of wanderlust.

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Remembering a Fighter for Freedom

Michelle Pilecki | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obituary, Aclu, Lobbyists, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Bipartisanship, Frankel, Legislation, Politics News

Larry Frankel spent his professional life as a legislative lobbyist for the ACLU. That means that Larry worked behind the scenes with both "left" and "right" legislators to protect the civil rights.

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Four Years Later, Let's End the Human Rights Crisis in KatrinaRitaVille

Jeffrey Buchanan | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Aclu, Fema, Hurricanes, Gulf Coast Recovery, Gulf Coast Civic Works Act, Naacp, Human Rights Violations, Obama New Orleans, Infrastructure, Human Rights, Louisiana, New Orleans Recovery, Lower Ninth Ward, FEMA Hurricane Katrina, Nancy Pelosi, Hurricane Katrina, Gulf Coast, Politics News

The federal government still has a long fight ahead to make good on promises to rebuild a stronger, safer and more equitable Gulf Coast.

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New CIA Docs Detail Brutal "Extraordinary Rendition" Process

Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Aclu Extraordinary Rendition, Extraordinary Renditons, Extraordinary Rendition, Politics News

By Scott Horton Special to the Huffington Post Deep among the documents released to the ACLU on Monday afternoon was a curious memo dated 30 Decembe...

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Why the Florida Gay Adoption Ban Is Immoral

Carlos A. Ball | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Florida, Anita Bryant, Gay Rights, Aclu, Gay Adoption, Children, Politics News

The ACLU is back in court in Florida challenging the constitutionality of that state's thirty-year old law which prohibits lesbians and gay men from adopting.

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Torture Report From 2004 Released by CIA (Help Read Through It)

Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, John Helgerson, Bush Administration, Foia, Cia, Torture, Cia Inspector General Report, Torture Memo, Redacted Documents, Politics News

Under the Freedom of Information Act, the CIA has been forced by the ACLU to release its report on Bush-era interrogation operations written by former...

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Do Homeless People Have Rights?

Christine Schanes | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ada, Rights, Disabled, Homelessness, Causes, Lawsuits, Homeless People, Aclu, Chronically Homeless People, Children Helping Poor and Homeless People, Politics News

If every city with an insufficient number of shelter beds were to pass an ordinance against sleeping in all public places, there would be no place for a homeless person to sleep.

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The Olson/Boies Same-Sex Marriage Lawsuit: Too Much, Too Soon?

Carlos A. Ball | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Vaughn Walker, Gay Rights, Proposition 8, National Center for Lesbian Rights, Ted Olson, David Boies, Aclu, Thurgood Marshall, Same-Sex Marriage, Lambda, Politics News

The question no longer is whether the lawsuit should be brought, but whether it will succeed.

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Bagram Isn't The New Guantanamo, It's The Old Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Aclu, Military Tribunals, Department of Defense, World, War on Terror, Terrorism, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Donald Rumsfeld, Guantanamo, Freedom of Information Act, International Justice Network, Boumediene v. Bush, Barack Obama, Judge John D. Bates, World News, Rendition, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Bagram Detainees Us Courts, Bagram, Bagram Detainees, Cia, Guantanamo Bay, Bagram Habeas Corpus, The Guantanamo Files, Judge Gladys Kessler, Obama Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Politics News

From what I have been able to gather about the workings of Bagram, I have no reason to conclude that the prison is now being run according to the Geneva Conventions.

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Stop Beating Students with Disabilities in Schools

Alice Farmer | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Schools, Aclu, Abuse, Psychological Stability, Corporal Punishment, Punishment, Elementary School, Human-Rights-Law, Students, Disabled-Children, Child Abuse, Human Rights Watch, Disabilities, ACLU Torture, Behavioral Psychology, Politics News

Corporal punishment causes pain, humiliation, and in some cases deep bruising or other serious injury; it also can have long-lasting psychological consequences.

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Tortured Logic

Anthony D. Romero | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Office of Legal Counsel, Jay Bybee, Government Accountability, John Yoo, Aclu, Steven Bradbury, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News

In "Tortured Logic," a video released by the ACLU today, you'll hear well-known people like Oliver Stone, Rosie Perez and Philip Glass, read from those chilling Justice Department torture memos.

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White House To Announce Plans For "Truly Civil" Immigrant Detention System

The New York Times | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, American Civil Liberties Union, Immigration Obama, Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security, Illegal Immigrants, Obama Administration, Immigration, Immigrant Detention, Deportation, Politics News

The Obama administration intends to announce an ambitious plan on Thursday to overhaul the much-criticized way the nation detains immigration violator...

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Why We're Challenging the FAA

Larry Siems | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nsa, Aclu, PEN American Center, Fisa, Warantless Surveillance, Fisa Amendments Act, Obama FISA, Politics News

Programs that allow governments to spy on their own citizens are often directed against writers and intellectuals and pose a serious threat to the intellectual and creative freedoms of all citizens.

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Same Sex Marriage in CA: 8 Reasons Why We Should Lay Off the Debate over 2010 v. 2012

Isobel White | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Marriage, California Gay Marriage, California, Gay Rights, Prop 8, Proposition 8, Jordan/Rustin, Marriage Equality in CA, No on Prop 8, California Same Sex Marriage, Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, Marriage Equality, Politics News

We and the other side can keep going back and forth, spending millions upon millions. Or we can actually create enough of a cultural shift that being anti-same sex marriage is no longer widely acceptable

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Justice Dept. Abandons Torture-Based Evidence In Gitmo Case

The Washington Independent | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rights, Aclu, Doj, Terrorism, President Obama, Guantanamo, Obama Administration, Obama, Justice Department, Eric Holder, Gitmo, Habeas Corpus, National Security, American Civil Liberties Union, Enhanced Interrogations, Mohammed Jawad, Torture, Politics News

The Justice Department informed a federal district court Wednesday that it was no longer seeking to rely on coerced and tortured evidence in the habea...

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Former Insider Shatters Credibility of Military Commissions

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Preventive Detention, Mohamed Jawad, David Kris, Department of Defense, War on Terror, Harsh Interrogations, President Obama, Guantanamo, Obama Administration, John Hutson, World News, Dick Cheney, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Sen. Carl Levin, Robert Gates, Jeh Johnson, National Security, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, World, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Senate Armed Services Committee, Susan Crawford, David Addington, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, House Committee on the Judiciary, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, Capt. John Murphy, George Toscas, Federal Court, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, Torture, Politics News

Lt. Col. Vandeveld said, "I simply could not in good conscience continue to work for an ad-hoc, hastily created apparatus whose evident resort to expediency and ethical compromise were so contrary to my own."

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Florida Law Leads To Shantytown For Banished Sex Offenders

The New York Times | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, American Civil Liberties Union, Probation, Homelessness, Sex-Offenders-Laws, Homeless Shelters, Sex Offenders, Florida, Charlie Crist, Miami, Politics News

They used to be invisible, the four or five convicted sex offenders camping out on the Julia Tuttle Causeway connecting Miami to Miami Beach. But for ...

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California TV Stations "Just Say No" to Drug Policy Ad

Anthony Citrano | Posted 08.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Television, California, Breaking Media News, Media News, Media, Marijuana, Drug Policy, Aclu, Corporate Media, Marijuana Legalization, AB 390, Political News, Politics, California Politics, Breaking Politics News, Media News

Marijuana decriminalization is getting fresh attention due to broad public support of the new AB 390 bill, but only a handful of media outlets, including CNN and CNBC, will air pro-legalization ads.

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Obama's Radical Gitmo Plan

Ari Melber | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Feingold, Ccr, Aclu, Preventive Detention, Obama, Gitmo, Constitution Project, Obama Detainees, Obama Guantanamo, Obama Gitmo, Obama Detention, Obama Detention Policy, Politics News

Obama's controversial detention plan for Guantanamo detainees keeps leaking and it is a fundamentally radical, dangerous and potentially unconstitutional approach.

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Remembering My Battle Against Fundamentalists

Jim Luce | Posted 08.06.2009 | New York

Read More: Jerry Falwell, Last Temptation of Christ, American Psychological Association, The Road Less Traveled and Beyond, U.P.I., Pat Robertson, Christian Fundamentalism, Religious Addiction, Jewish Fundamentalism, The Journal of Religion and Health, Fundamentalists Anonymous, Daiwa Bank, Mainline Churches, There Is a Way Out, God’s Will, Today Show, Marty Scorsese, Religious Right, Los Angeles Times, Fundamentalist, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Moral Majority, Islamic Fundamentalism, Christian Science Monitor, Steve Allen, Phil Donahue Show, Hollywood Under Siege, Madonna, Culture Wars, PTL Club, USA Today, Toronto Star, Henry Luce III, San Francisco Chronicle, London Observer, Daniel Berrigan, Luce Publications, Norman Lear, Hank Luce, Gunther Hirshberg, Henry Luce Foundation, Village Voice, Ari Goldman, Universal Studio, U.S. Congress, A. James Rudin, M. Scott Peck, New York Law Journal, Josh Baran, Salman Rushdie, Newsweek, Frank Zappa, Presbyterian, Bill Geist, Ram Dass, Associated Press, A.C.L.U., Psychology Today, Terry Sweeney, Cnn, Like a Prayer, Wall Street, Satanic Verses, Jimmy Swaggart, American Jewish Committee, Oprah Winfrey Show, New York Observer, People for the American Way., New York Times, Episcopalian, New York News

Our biggest accomplishment was standing up for those torn down by the TV evangelists.

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Guantanamo's Early Months: "Chaotic And Sometimes Violent Operation"

AP | PAMELA HESS and NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 08.02.2009 | World

Read More: Aclu, Guantanamo Documents, Gitmo's Early Months, Guantanamo Bay, Gitmo, Defense Department, World News

WASHINGTON — Newly released Defense Department documents and memos about the first years of operation of the jail at the U.S. base at Guantanamo...

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Release of the "Holy Grail" of Torture Reports Delayed Again

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Sere, Cia Inspector General Report, ACLU Accountability for Torture, War on Terror, Harsh Interrogations, Terrorism, President Obama, Abu Zubaydah, Fbi, CIA Torture, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Office of Legal Counsel, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Cia, Steven G. Bradbury, Breaking Politics News, Waterboarding, ACLU Torture, The Guantanamo Files, Cia Torture Memos, CIA Inspector General, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News

Today was supposed to be the day that the Justice Department -- after two delays -- released an unclassified version of the CIA Inspector General's 2004 Report into the interrogations of "high-value detainees."

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Never Forget: The International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Geneva Conventions, Preventive Detention, President Obama, George W. Bush, Navi Pillay, United Nations, Donald Rumsfeld, Guantanamo, Eric Holder, Judge John D. Bates, World News, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Politics, UN Convention Against Torture, Abdul Rahim Al-Ginco, ACLU Torture, Mohamed Et Al v Jeppesen Dataplan Inc., Bagram Torture, Closing Guantanamo, World, Terrorism, CIA Torture, US District Court, Justice Department, Boumediene v. Bush, Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, Bagram, Judge Richard Leon, Abou Elkassim Britel, International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Waterboarding, Torture, Politics News

Sadly, our celebrity-obsessed world is unlikely to pay much attention to the International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture, as the death of Michael Jackson dominates headlines.

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Biloxi Removing FEMA Trailers, Undermining Obama and Victimizing Katrina Survivors

Jeffrey Buchanan | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics

The Biloxi City Council will vote June 16th on an ordinance, backed by the City's community development office, forcing FEMA trailers to be removed from residential zones by August 9th.

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