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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.
How the Police Lobby Impedes Public Safety
To create and foster the genuine public safety BIPOC communities are demanding, we must address the lobbying power of police.
A New Consensus Around Transparency and National Security Surveillance
Among the intelligence community elite, there seems to be a new recognition that excessive secrecy can be costly — and not just to democracy but to national security.
Protect People, Not Police Lobbyists
To create and foster the genuine public safety BIPOC communities are demanding, the ACLU is launching a campaign to expose the lobbying power of police.
Abortion Access is at Stake, But We Will Do Everything We Can to Keep Our Clinic’s Doors Open
Arkansas legislators are trying to make abortion inaccessible, so we're taking them to court.
We’re Suing Arkansas Over its Ban on Health Care for Trans Youth
This is the first of several lawsuits the ACLU will be filing over anti-trans laws passed in 2021.
The People, Not the Police, Should Decide If and How Surveillance Technologies Are Used In Their Communities
Dayton and Detroit just passed CCOPS’ 20th and 21st laws nationwide — a milestone for surveillance tech transparency and empowering communities.
What Insights Would RBG Offer About the Upcoming Supreme Court Abortion Rights Case?
Coverage of the court’s decision to hear a major abortion-related case has merely skimmed the surface about the impact across society.
The Movement to End Police Violence One Year after George Floyd’s Murder
One year ago today, George Floyd was brutally murdered by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin sparking the largest protests in American history. What has changed in the year since Floyd’s murder and that uprising?
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