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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.
Orange County’s Dramatic Reduction in Jail Population During the Pandemic is a Model for the Nation
The court-ordered victory shows that decarceration is not only possible going forward, it’s critically important.
No More Spying on Journalists
Existing Justice Department policies have not prevented abusive spying on reporters. The White House, Justice Department, and Congress need to impose far stronger, lasting safeguards.
The ‘ICE Kids’
For years, ICE has been holding teenagers in indefinite detention thousands of miles away from their families. And it won’t tell anyone why.
Patient Privacy Is Not Just About Medical Ethics — It’s Vital to Racial Equity and Disability Rights
We should empower patients to seek care by maintaining the strongest possible medical confidentiality rules instead of watering down critical patient privacy protections.
Canceling Student Debt Can Help Build Black Women’s Futures
We don’t need more shallow praise for “saving” the nation — we need Biden to cancel our student debt.
Mass ICE Detention is Unnecessary — and We Have Proof
Immigration detention was cruel, abusive, and degrading before the pandemic hit — but as in so many other places, COVID-19 made the system's brutality impossible to ignore.
Resilience, Liberation, and the Interconnectedness of Pride
If Marsha and Sylvia taught us anything, it’s that if Pride doesn’t include all of us, it doesn’t hold meaning for any of us.
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