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For decades, local, state and federal public officials from both political parties and powerful interest groups engineered the system of mass incarceration. They did this in part by constructing a narrative of fear fueled by racism through which they passed laws, spent billions of dollars, and separated millions of families. It was a disaster of epic proportions that unfolded in slow motion and for which we are still paying the price today as a nation.
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By aclutn
Feb 09, 2017
Day 21: Become a volunteer with ACLU-TN
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By Claire Gardner
Feb 09, 2017
Small-Town Activists Stand Up to a Coal Ash Landfill and Win a Major Victory for Free Speech
For the first time in almost a year, four residents of Uniontown, Alabama, woke up Wednesday without the dark cloud of an unjust multi-million dollar-lawsuit hanging over their heads. That’s because this week we reached a settlement victory that permanently ends a troubling defamation suit filed against them by a landfill.
By aclutn
Feb 08, 2017
Social Networking Powerhouse Facebook Steps Forward to Bar Discriminatory Advertising on Its Site
Online advertisers wield immense power.
With any given ad, they can reach the consumers they have in mind by targeting specific groups of people with e
By aclutn
Feb 08, 2017
ACLU and Other Groups Ask for Emergency Hearing on the Muslim Ban from International Human Rights Body
The ACLU, joined by more than 40 other groups, is taking the fight against President Trump’s immoral and unconstitutional Muslim ban to the international stage.
Since the implementation of the ban just over two weeks ago, refugee and human rights officials
By aclutn
Feb 08, 2017
This Supreme Court Case Could Affect Trans Lives for Generations
In a new video featuring ACLU client Gavin Grimm and his mom Deirdre Grimm, the two reflect on Gavin’s fight to be treated with dignity and respect by his school board in Gloucester County, Virginia — a journey that has taken them all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States where his case will be heard on March 28.
Gavin is a 17-year-old boy. But because he is transgender, his school board passed a policy
By aclutn
Feb 08, 2017
New Documents Show This TSA Program Blamed for Profiling Is Unscientific and Unreliable — But Still It Continues
Yawning. Whistling. Being distracted. Arriving late for a flight.
Are people who do these things at the airport showing signs of deception? The Transportation Security Administ
By aclutn
Feb 08, 2017
Day 20: Read Coretta Scott King's letter on Sessions’ “attempt to intimidate … black voters”
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By Claire Gardner
Feb 08, 2017
Donald Trump’s Pick for the EPA Is Stonewalling on Releasing Records Linking Him to the Fossil Fuel Industry, So We’re Suing for His Compliance
As the Senate moves to confirm Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as head of the Environmental Protection Agency this week, the ACLU, the ACLU of Oklahoma, and the Center for Media and Democracy filed a legal challenge yesterday to Pruitt’s failure to comply with his state’s Open Records Act.
Pruitt has a history of unreasonably stonewalling requests for documents, including in response to question
By aclutn
Feb 08, 2017
ACLU Announces Expansion Plan to Fight Trump Policies
The last several weeks have been breathless and agonizing — but also exhilarating — for us at the ACLU.
Breathless because President Trump began actually putting his unconstitutional campaign promises into reality. Agonizing
By aclutn
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