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Love Thy Neighbor: Defend our Communities: Protect Our Democracy, Part 1
A Voter Registration Event and Community Training! This training facilitated by Dream Action Oklahoma will give you a breakdown of the authoritarian playbook, and help prepare you to make sense of the nonsense by sharing your power and tools to make a difference in your community. ACLU-OK will also provide free voting resources and voter registration.
Jury Justice
A class-action lawsuit challenges the permanent exclusion of people with felony convictions from serving on juries.
Unaccountable Police Units Are Wrong for Safety
Specialized units give police too much power, leading to abuse and violence. If we want to keep people safe from both crime and police violence, we need to build something better.
Government Agencies Shouldn't Be Allowed to Destroy Their Paper Trail of Medical Abuse and Neglect
Customs and Border Protection's request to destroy certain medical records will hinder oversight and obscure serious violations.
Language Access is a Civil Right, For Both Children and Adults
Why the ACLU supports the right of Deaf and Hard of Hearing children to access language.
The Supreme Court Must Allow U.S. Citizens to Challenge Placement on No Fly List
Americans wrongly placed on this harmful and discriminatory list deserve their day in court.
Another Year of America's Failed Experiment: The Death Penalty in 2023
The executions of 24 people last year illustrated the full range of systemic flaws in our system of capital punishment.
The Threat to Privacy and Civil Liberties with Automatic License Plate Readers
The implementation of a vast surveillance network across Oklahoma and the United States is a threat to privacy and civil liberties.
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Looking to the Future: 2024 at the ACLU
We will always advocate for civil liberties — next year will be no different.
Season of Giving
Each year with the start of November we embark on the most wonderful time of the year, the Season of Giving. The Season of Giving encompasses not only Giving Tuesday which falls on November 28th but continues through the end of year and focuses on generosity and love for all.
By Tamya Cox-Touré
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