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NextGen Meeting: Find your voice. Create change.
The goal of this program is to provide students with a place to meet other young advocates, connect with community leaders, and learn new skills and information that will allow them to be better advocates in their schools and communities.
The purpose of this first meeting is for students to get to know each other and meet community organizing leaders in OKC. Students will also have a chance to brainstorm ideas on how to approach pressing issues in their communities.
State Legislative Sessions: How They Impact Your Rights
Many state legislative sessions are underway right now — learn more about this crucial political process and how it can bolster or reduce your rights.
Fighting Back Against Discriminatory Laws That Impact People Living with HIV
The ACLU is challenging a Tennessee law that criminalizes HIV status. This law unfairly prevents people from securing employment and housing.
Why Allowing Chaplains in Public Schools Harms Students
Across the country, efforts to install chaplains in public schools threaten to undermine students’ religious freedom rights and their well-being. Here’s what you need to know.
"We Do No Such Thing": What the 303 Creative Decision Means and Doesn't Mean for Anti-Discrimination and Public Accommodation Laws
Businesses offering expressive services do not have a First Amendment right to refuse to serve customers based on their identity. The SCOTUS decision merely recognizes a business’s right to choose not to sell certain products to anyone.
How to Protect Consumer Privacy and Free Speech
Consumer privacy laws should strengthen free speech protections online, and vice versa. Here’s how it can be done.
Supreme Court Signals that Institutions Can Keep Designing Programs to Foster Diversity, After Affirmative Action Ruling
The court has declined to hear new challenges to admissions policies, leaving the door open for institutions to continue creative solutions for expanding opportunity.
Despair and Resignation Are Not A Strategy: How to Fight Back In A Second Trump Term.
The ACLU has the battle-tested playbook to defend civil rights and liberties. Should we face a second Trump administration, we’re ready.
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