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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.
Criminal Justice Reform is in Our Hands: We Have A Chance for Change With SQ 805
On November 3, Oklahomans will have their final opportunity to lend their vote to meaningful criminal justice reform this cycle by voting Yes on State Question 805. As is often the case for criminal justice reform in Oklahoma, opposition to this modest reform has been rife with misinformation, and rooted in the idea that somehow a state who has managed to incarcerate people at the highest rates in the world to the detriment of our public safety is doing justice.
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The Dangers of Expanding What Can Be Patented In the Age of COVID-19
Sandra Park, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU Women's Rights Project
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Moving Forward: Muslims Belong Here
Manar Waheed, Senior Legislative and Advocacy Counsel, ACLU
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Transgender Voting Guide: Information for Poll Workers
Poll workers have a reposnsibility when it comes to protecting the voting rights of our transgender community.
At the Polls, Episode 7: Why Do We Take Voting Rights Away in America?
Across the country, over 5 million people who are of voting age cannot vote because of felony disenfranchisement laws, including one in five Black Americans. These laws are a relic of the Jim Crow era, and were intentionally designed to suppress the vote — particularly the Black vote — by limiting the impact of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.
Racial Justice Demands That Every Vote Is Counted
Lucia Tian, Former Chief Analytics Officer, ACLU
Election Protection and Protest Hotline
The ACLU of Oklahoma is partnering with the National Lawyers Guild of Oklahoma to help protect Oklahomans during early voting through post election. Please call our election protection and protest hotline with any concerns: (405) 849-5220.
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