End Racial Profiling Act

aka ERPA

04/25/2012
I Am Not a Stereotype

A Mother’s Story: It Is Not What We Say to Black Boys and Men, It Is What We Do to Them

By Laura W. Murphy, Director, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 9:36pm

I feel deeply for Travyon’s mother; she’s living my worst fear.

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04/23/2012
I Am Not a Stereotype

Living in Parallel Worlds

By Dennis Parker, Director, ACLU Racial Justice Program at 4:01pm

It is difficult to convey how painful it is to live in a world in which nothing you do is as important as the color of your skin.

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04/18/2012
End Racial Profiling Act

ACLU Lens: ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero, ACLU Clients Urge Congress to End Racial Profiling

By Sandhya Bathija, Washington Legislative Office at 1:02pm

Racial profiling is based on crass stereotypes and assumptions, instead of facts, evidence and good solid police work.

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03/27/2012
Trayvon Martin

House Holds Forum on Racial Profiling and Hate Crimes in Wake of Trayvon Martin's Killing

By Dennis Parker, Director, ACLU Racial Justice Program at 1:25pm

Today's forum on racial profiling and hate crimes will address how we as a nation want to ensure that young men like Trayvon are not the victims of vigilante justice and racial profiling.

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04/24/2012
I Am Not a Stereotype

End Racial Profiling Act Lobby Day: Bringing Real Stories to Washington

By Jennifer Bellamy, Washington Legislative Office at 4:49pm
ACLU of Michigan Client Tiburcio Briceno (right) with Rep. Luis Gutierrez outside of hearing room. Briceno spoke at the press conference following the hearing and told the story of how he was racially profiled by local law enforcement and held for deportation.
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04/19/2012
I Am Not a Stereotype

Singling Us Out: NYPD's Spying on Muslim Americans Creates Fear and Distrust

My fellow students describe censoring themselves in classes to avoid saying anything that might be taken as controversial or out of the mainstream.

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04/17/2012
I Am Not a Stereotype

Facing Reality: Even Today, We're Still Judged by the Color of Our Skin

"I started crying. I was so mad. I knew they had stopped me because I was African-American. I knew that I had been racially profiled."

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04/16/2012
On the Agenda

On the Agenda: Week of April 16 – 20, 2012

By Suzanne Ito, ACLU at 11:29am

Congress is back in session, so we've got a busy week ahead.

Today, the ACLU, along with several other groups, is launching a weeklong campaign called "Stop Cyber Spying Week" to draw attention to the massive civil liberties problems in H.R. 3523, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011, better known as CISPA. CISPA is scheduled to be voted on by the House of Representatives next week. Tomorrow ACLU Legislative Counsel Michelle Richardson will speak at a House Hill Briefing called "The False Choice: Cybersecurity vs. Civil Liberties."

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04/12/2012
End Racial Profiling Act

ACLU Lens: Laura W. Murphy Speaks Out As a Mother on the Impact of Trayvon Martin's Death 

By Sandhya Bathija, Washington Legislative Office at 12:05pm

The ACLU's Laura W. Murphy shares a personal story about how she has often feared her 22-year-old African-American son will be targeted like Trayvon Martin.

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04/20/2012
End Racial Profiling Act

Racial Profiling Redux

By Chandra Bhatnagar, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU Human Rights Program at 5:43pm

In the 1993 film Groundhog Day, Bill Murray's character finds himself repeating the same miserable day over and over again. For Indian film star Shahrukh Khan, last week was Groundhog Day for racial and religious profiling. In 2009, Khan — a huge global celebrity whose likeness is immortalized in wax at Madame Tussaud's — was traveling to the United States to celebrate Indian independence day and to promote a movie about a Muslim man who is the victim of profiling called My Name is Khan. In a case of life imitating art, Khan who is also Muslim, was detained and questioned at Newark airport.

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