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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.
A Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity: Why the U.S. Should Keep its Promise to Diversity Visa Winners
Thousands of people are being denied their chance at the American dream because their visas were torn up during the anti-immigrant Trump administration.
Drug Treatment is Infrastructure
States and localities should use this moment to tackle the overdose epidemic.
20 Years After 9/11, We Have a Roadmap Toward a More Just and Equitable Future
Will Biden and Congress follow it?
A Conversation with Survivors of the CIA’s Post-9/11 Torture Program
On At Liberty, we reflect on what justice for victims and survivors would look like, and how to ensure the government never uses these inhumane tactics again.
The Watchlisting System Exemplifies the Government’s Post-9/11 Embrace of Biased Profiling
The system is an affront to the Constitution and the values we claim to hold dear.
10 Things to Know about Combating Violence in America
As communities grapple with violent crime, calls for more police have increased. Here's why policing isn't the solution to violence, and some viable alternatives.
The Privacy Lesson of 9/11: Mass Surveillance is Not the Way Forward
Congress must ensure that the next generation of Americans is able to speak and associate freely, without fear of surveillance.
Civil Liberties and Vaccine Mandates: Here’s Our Take.
Far from compromising civil liberties, vaccine mandates actually further civil liberties. They protect the most vulnerable among us, including people with disabilities and fragile immune systems, children too young to be vaccinated and communities of color hit hard by the disease.
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