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Like Privacy? There's An App For That!

By Sam Ritchie, ACLU at 5:16pm
Today we've launched a Facebook app that assesses your privacy exposure based on your online habits and technology use. Read More

Whether You Occupy or Tea Party, Know Your Rights!

By Sam Ritchie, ACLU at 5:17pm
We've released a new Know Your Rights guide to demonstrations and protests, which covers where you can march, when the government can require permits and more. Read More

Marriage For All Comes to New York!

By Sam Ritchie, ACLU at 2:06pm
…and the ACLU was there! From Niagara Falls to New York City, the NYCLU and ACLU were at wedding ceremonies all over New York State yesterday, talking to ... Read More

This Independence Day Weekend, Let's Honor Courage

By Sam Ritchie, ACLU at 2:03pm
The New York Times published an editorial endorsing our call for the Obama administration to honor those who "stood up against the Bush administration's immoral ... Read More

MIA: Missing in America

By Sam Ritchie, ACLU at 10:09pm
“The federal government should not have to be sued into giving veterans with mental illnesses and brain injuries the care they need so they don’t end up ... Read More

Louisiana to Vote on Parole for Elderly Prisoners Friday

By Sam Ritchie, ACLU at 5:38pm
On Friday, Louisiana’s H.B. 138, which would give inmates age 60 and older the right to have a hearing before a parole board to determine whether they could ... Read More

With A Vote This Bad, You’re Damn Right We’re Critics!

By Sam Ritchie, ACLU at 12:28pm
In an article posted yesterday, the Associated Press called us “indignant critics” and included us among the main groups pushing to change the U.S. ... Read More

Medical Marijuana Crackdown: A Wholly Avoidable Health Care Crisis

By Sam Ritchie, ACLU at 12:42pm
We here at the ACLU fear that there is a senseless, needless and wholly avoidable health care crisis coming, one that will impact the lives of clients we've come to ... Read More

75 Years Queer

By Sam Ritchie, ACLU at 1:48pm
Last week, in Clovis, New Mexico, the local school district announced that it had approved students' application for a gay-straight alliance (GSA). Read More

Honoring Courage Seven Years After Abu Ghraib

By Sam Ritchie, ACLU at 10:35am
To mark the seventh anniversary of the publication of photographs that exposed torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib prison, the New York Times published an ACLU/PEN ... Read More
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