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ACLU Attorneys Discuss the Detention of Immigrants, Women and Children
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On December 10, 2007, the ACLU released a comprehensive analysis of the pervasive, institutionalized, systemic and structural racism in America. Jamil Dakwar, Advocacy Director for the ACLU's Human Rights Program (left), discusses the issue of detention of immigrants, women and children with ACLU attorneys Tom Jawetz and Mie Lewis. MP3
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Dennis Parker, Nsombi Lambright and Lisa Graybill Discuss Racial Inequality
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Dennis Parker, Director of the ACLU's Racial Justice Program, discusses juvenile justice, voting rights, the death penalty and other issues addressed in the new ACLU report, Race & Ethnicity in America, with ACLU of Mississippi Executive Director Nsombi Lambright (center) and ACLU of Texas Legal Director Lisa Graybill. MP3
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Chandra Bhatnagar Talks About Racism in America Learn
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Chandra Bhatnagar, Staff Attorney for the ACLU's Human Rights Program, gives a historic overview on racism in America, and discusses racial profiling, affirmative action and the rights of immigrants and noncitizens as addressed in the new ACLU report, Race & Ethnicity in America: Turning a Blind Eye to Injustice.
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ACLU Attorney Laleh Ispahani Talks About the U.S.'s Obligations Under the CERD Treaty
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Laleh Ispahani, Senior Policy Counsel for the ACLU's Racial Justice Program, talks about the U.S.'s obligations as a signatory to the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) treaty. Laleh is the author of Race & Ethnicity in America: Turning a Blind Eye to Injustice, an analysis of the U.S. State Department's report on the state of racial discrimination in the U.S.
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Cecillia Wang Discusses the Boumediene v. Bush Supreme Court Arguments
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On December 5,2007, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Boumediene v. Bush, a case that will determine whether Guantánamo detainees have the right to challenge the lawfulness of their detention in U.S. federal courts. Immigrants' Rights Senior Staff Attorney Cecillia Wang attended the arguments, and talked about the morning's proceedings.
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Matt Coles Talks About the ACLU's 25 Years of Fighting Discrimination Against AIDS Patients
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December 1 was World AIDS Day. The ACLU AIDS Project believes no one should be deprived of their basic constitutional protections of equality, privacy or free expression because they have HIV or AIDS. Matt Coles, Director of the ACLU AIDS Project, talks about how the government has attempted to trample the civil rights of those with HIV/AIDS, and the project's work fighting to eliminate discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS in all aspects of society, including employment, housing and public accommodations.
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Abused Domestic Workers of Diplomats Seek Justice From International Commission
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On November 15, 2007, domestic workers who were exploited and abused in the U.S. by foreign diplomats petitioned the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). The petition charges that the United States has violated the American Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Man by failing to ensure that foreign officials with diplomatic immunity are prohibited from committing egregious human rights abuses.
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 Indonesian domestic worker, Siti Aisah, tells her story of exploitation at the hands of the Ambassador to the Qatar Mission of the United Nations.
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 Otilia Huayta, una trabajadora domestica de Bolivia, cuenta como ella y su hija de 12 anos, Carla, fueron explotadas y abusadas por una diplomática Boliviana quien las trajo a los Estados Unidos. Read the English translation of this podcast >>
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 Jennie Pasquarella, Staff Attorney for the ACLU Women's Rights Project, explains how diplomatic immunity allows diplomats to violate domestic workers' rights and describes the ACLU's petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
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Military
Commissions Resume at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba
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On November 8, 2007, military commission hearings resumed at
Guantánamo. The first hearing will determine if Canadian national Omar
Ahmed Khadr can tried as an unlawful enemy combatant. Jamil Dakwar, Director of the ACLU's Human Rights Program,
attended Khadr's hearing as a human rights monitor. He discusses the
day's proceedings and talks about a new Pentagon rule that prohibits
monitors from attending the post-hearing press conference.
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| Administration
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U.S. Custody Abroad, Is Released Learn
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Written by ACLU attorneys Jameel Jaffer and Amrit Singh, the book
presents a detailed account of the treatment of prisoners held in U.S.
detention centers in Afghanistan , Iraq , and Guantánamo
Bay. In this Columbia University Press podcast, Jaffer and Singh talk
about the substantial evidence that the torture and abuse of prisoners
was systemic and resulted from decisions made by senior U.S. officials,
both military and civilian.
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ACLU Executive
Director Anthony Romero Talks About His New Book, In Defense
of Our America
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Using the stories of real Americans on the front lines of the fight for
civil
liberties, the book takes a critical look at civil liberties in this
country
at a time when constitutional freedoms are in peril. Romero talks about
meeting
the people whose stories make up the book, and how it addresses the
crucial issues
that every American faces today.
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Medical
Care in Immigrant Detention
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On October 4, 2007, the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on
Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International
Law heard testimony on the issue of medical care in immigrant
detention.
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 June Everett tells of her sister Sandra Kenley's
detention. Prisons staff neglected to give Kenley her daily medication
— Kenley died in detention.
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Former detainee Francisco Castaneda talks about a
cancerous lesion that went untreated while he was held at the San Diego
Correctional Facility.
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 Max Sevilla es un consultor legislativo para el
ACLU. Lo entrevistamos sobre la preocupante falta de cuidado medico
adecuado de inmigrantes confinados a centros de detención, y
sobre los esfuerzos del ACLU para mejorar las condiciones de estos
inmigrantes en custodia de ICE.
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Former Inmate Garrett Cunningham
Describes His Ordeal in a Texas Prison
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On September 28, 2007, Garrett Cunningham testified at a congressional
briefing hosted by the ACLU and SAVE Coalition to discuss the
unintended consequences of the 1996 Prison Litigation Reform Act
(PLRA). Because of the PLRA's complex rules, Cunningham, who was raped
by a guard while incarcerated at a Texas prison, was unable to bring
formal charges against the officer, who went on to sexually assault
more prisoners.
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Justice in Jena: Dennis Parker
Discusses the Jena 6 Case
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On September 20, 2007, thousands of activists from across the country
gathered in the small town of Jena, Louisiana, to show their support
for the Jena 6, a group of six black high school students who initally
faced attempted murder charges for their involvement in a schoolyard
fight with a white student. Dennis Parker, Director of the ACLU's
Racial Justice Program, talks about the case of the Jena 6, and how the
case is symptomatic of the much larger problem of racial injustice
throughout the country.
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Human Costs of War: ACLU Sues DoD
to Release Documents Under FOIA
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On September 4, 2007, the ACLU filed a lawsuit against the Department
of Defense demanding that it comply with a Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) request to release documents related to civilians killed by
coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. ACLU staff attorney Nasrina
Bargzie (left), retired Army colonel Micheal Pheneger and others talk
about what documents released by the Army reveal about the American
military's conduct in these wars.
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Peter Chase Addresses A Fellow
John Doe
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On August 15, 2007, the ACLU argued the unconstitutionality of a
provision of the USA Patriot Act that allows the FBI to issue gag
orders against recipients of National Security Letters (NSL). After the
ACLU brought a similar case in 2005, the government lifted its gag on
librarian Peter Chase, who received an NSL ordering him to turn over
library patrons' internet usage records. After the August 15 hearing,
he recorded this message, from one John Doe to another.
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ACLU of Washington Legal Director
Sarah Dunne Discusses Title IX
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June 23 marks the 35th anniversary of Title IX, the landmark 1972 law
enacted
to end sex discrimination in education. ACLU of Washington Legal
Director Sarah
Dunne talks about past Title IX cases she litigated as a civil rights
attorney
at the Department of Justice, and what remains to be done to establish
gender
equity in schools.
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Matt Coles Talks About LGBT
Discrimination
in the Workplace
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Matt Coles, director of the ACLU's LGBT Project, talks about
the need for federal legislation outlawing LGBT discrimination in the
workplace.
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) would add sexual
orientation and
gender identity to the current list of federal employment protections,
which
already ban discrimination based on race, religion, gender, national
origin,
age and disability.
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| A Discussion with Actor
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On May 2, 2007, the ACLU hosted a screening of
"Civic Duty," a
film about fear and racial prejudice in the highly charged atmosphere
of
post-9/11 America. ACLU Senior Staff Attorney Reggie Shurford (right)
discussed "Civic
Duty" with the film's star and producer, Peter Krause, after the
screening.
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Dirty Wars:
An Evening of Readings to End Torture, Arbitrary Detention and
Extraordinary Rendition
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On April 26, 2007, leading writers and luminaries from around
the world gathered for an evening of readings at Joe's Pub in New York
City.
Cosponsored by the ACLU and PEN American Center, the event was part of
the PEN
World Voices Festival.
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Daoud Heidami, right, and Daniel Oreskes and author Mark Danner
reenacted the Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) of one of
Guantánamo's "high-value" detainees, Mustafa Ait Idr.
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Mark Danner, author of Truth and
Torture, read from government documents released to the ACLU
under the Freedom of Information Act.
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 South
African author Breyten Breytenbach, right, read his "Letter to a
Butcher from Abroad." Written in the 1960's, the piece depicts the
tireless efforts of prisoners to find dignity.
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Filmmaker Alex Gibney recited
selections from the interrogation log of Mohammad al-Qahtani, detainee
016, thought to be the 20th hijacker from the 9/11 attacks.
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 Nobel laureate and author Nadine Gordimer, right,
elaborated on the implications of "dirty wars" abroad, in a reading
from Scatter the Ashes and Go by South African
poet Mongane Wally Serote.
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Actor Gloria Reuben read ACLU client Khaled
El-Masri's op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, "I am
not a State Secret." The CIA abducted El-Masri, beat him, drugged him
and transported him to a secret prison in Afghanistan. In the op-ed,
El-Masri discusses his harrowing experience.
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 Francine Prose, right, President of PEN American
Center, read from emails released to the ACLU under the Freedom of
Information Act, containing correspondence from FBI agents visiting the
prison at Guántanamo Bay.
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Peter Chase Accepts the Medal of
Liberty
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On June 15, 2007, the ACLU honored Peter Chase, vice president of
Library Connection, with the Roger N. Baldwin Medal of Liberty. As a
client in the ACLU's lawsuit against the FBI and Attorney General
Alberto Gonzales over the use of National Security Letters, Chase was
honored for his commitment to civil liberties and courage to stand up
to the government's attempt to violate citizens' privacy. Peter gave
this speech at the ACLU's Biennial Conference in Seattle, Washington.
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U.N. Human
Rights Expert Visits U.S.
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Dr. Jorge Bustamante, the United Nations' Special Rapporteur
on the Human Rights of Migrants, made an official visit to the U.S.
from April
30 through May 18 to investigate the conditions of immigrants and
migrants living
here.
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Lucas Guttentag, Director the ACLU's Immigrants'
Rights Project, talks about anti-immigrant ordinances, post-9/11
changes to U.S. immigration policy and other issues that will be
addressed by the Special Rapporteur.
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Jamil Dakwar, Advocacy Director for the ACLU's
Human Rights Program, talks about the mandate of the Special
Rapporteur, and the significance of his visit to the human rights
community.
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Tom Jawetz, Immigration Detention Staff Attorney
for the ACLU's National Prison Project, talks about the conditions
inside immigrant detention facilities, and the other detention issues
the Special Rapporteur's will address.
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Unabridged: A
New Poetry Collection by Steve Connell and Sekou (tha misfit)
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Spoken word artists Steve Connell (top) and Sekou (tha misfit) perform
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Habeas
Corpus: "In Sheeps Clothing"
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Education: "The Fallacy of Unicorns"
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Profiling: "The Face of Danger"
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The Trials of Darryl Hunt
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ACLU Senior Staff Attorney Reggie Shuford talks with Darryl
Hunt, left, and Mark Rabil about Darryl Hunt's wrongful conviction. His
case
brings up questions of cross-racial eyewitness identification,
prosecutorial
misconduct, inexperienced defense attorneys and racial bias in death
penalty
cases.
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Civilian Casualties in Iraq
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ACLU attorney Jameel Jaffer, left,and Jon Tracey of Civic, on the
compensation
claims filed by Iraqis and Afghanis for combat, injury and death in
wartime.
The government released the claims in response to the ACLU's Freedom
of Information Act request.
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| Free Speech Experiment
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The
Supreme Court case Morse v. Frederick,
could alter the precedent set by Tinker v. Des Moines,
in which
the court ruled that free speech isn't shed "at the schoolhouse gate."
Joseph
Frederick and Mary Beth Tinker talk about the cases. Streaming
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Joseph Frederick talks about
his "Free Speech Experiment," as ACLU attorneys and independent counsel
Doug Mertz discuss the legal grounds.
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Ghosts
of Abu Ghraib
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Acclaimed filmmaker Rory Kennedy, pictured left, talks with Jameel
Jaffer, Deputy Director of the ACLU's National Security Program, about
her documentary, "Ghosts
of Abu Ghraib."
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Post-screening discussion with ACLU Executive Director
Anthony D. Romero, Rory Kennedy, staff attorney Amrit Singh, and
moderator Laura Flanders.
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ACLU
Challenges Hutto Detention Center
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The ACLU brought several lawsuits against Michael Chertoff,
Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, on behalf of children
detained
at the Hutto detention facility.
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ACLU staff attorney Vanita
Gupta on why legal action was taken.
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Barbara Hines, co-counsel in
the case, discusses why she got involved.
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ACLU
v. NSA: The Challenge to Unchecked Surveillance
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The ACLU defeated the Bush
administration in the first federal challenge ever argued against the
president's NSA spying program: A district court declared the program
unconstitutional and called for an immediate halt to this abuse of
presidential power.
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 ACLU
Associate Legal Director Ann Beeson, right, on how the case is still
alive and how clients have been harmed.
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ACLU of Northern California staff attorney Ann
Brick on why phone companies' collusion with the NSA violates privacy
rights.
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Josh Dratel, a criminal
defense lawyer in New York, discusses the NSA eavesdropping program
from a plaintiff's point of view.
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Arsalan Iftikhar, National
Legal Director of Council on American Islamic Relations, on illegal
eavesdropping for all Americans.
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 Harvey Grossman, Legal Director of the ACLU of
Illinois, pictured right, discusses Terkel v. AT&T.
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Nick Schmader , member of the
Rhode Island Community Coalition for Peace (via
telephone)
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The World We Want: Roe
v. Wade 34 Years Later
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ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero and Reproductive Freedom
Project Director
Louise Melling discuss the impact of Roe v. Wade
and the ACLU's vision
for reproductive freedom.
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Impact of
Reproductive Freedom
ACLU lawyer Sondra Goldschein on the real-life impact of reproductive
freedom 34 years after Roe v. Wade.
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Detainees at
Guantánamo Bay
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ACLU legal director Steve Shapiro discusses court rulings regarding the
Bush
administration's unlawful detention policy, and the outlook for cases
challenging
the constitutionality of the Military Commissions Act.
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| 2006 ACLU Membership Conference
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Member greetings, commentary from ACLU staff
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