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Demian Bichir Joins ACLU Celebrity Ambassadors

Demian Bichir Joins ACLU Celebrity Ambassadors

The ACLU Ambassador Project is an exciting next step in the ACLU's longtime collaboration with the entertainment community, in an effort to use celebrity for the greater good...

Arrested for Walking While Trans: An Interview with Monica Jones

Arrested for Walking While Trans: An Interview with Monica Jones

04/02/2014 – In Phoenix, Arizona, you can be arrested for repeatedly stopping and engaging a passerby in conversation. This may, under Phoenix law, be evidence that you are "manifesting" an intent to ...

A Tour of the TSA’s Testing Facility

A Tour of the TSA’s Testing Facility

04/02/2014 – Last week I was given a tour of the “TSA Systems Integration Facility” (TSIF), the agency’s testing facility located at Reagan National Airport here in Washington, in some outlying ...

Two And A Half Years After Being Racially Profiled, A First Victory

Two And A Half Years After Being Racially Profiled, A First Victory

04/01/2014 – More than two years ago, on September 11, 2011, I was stuck on a grounded airplane in Detroit. At first I thought we were just waiting for our gate to clear, but then our plane taxied to ...

Dear Mr. President: Walk the Walk on Big Data

Dear Mr. President: Walk the Walk on Big Data

04/01/2014 – In the wake of the NSA scandals and daily corporate privacy invasions, the president asked one of his senior advisors, John Podesta, to perform a quick 90-day review of “big data” ...

ACLU Features ››

Border Communities Under Siege

The U.S.-Mexico border has been turned into a militarized zone, all in the name of "border security."

Out for Freedom

We now face an unprecedented opportunity to achieve the freedom to marry for same-sex couples ...

Time to Rein in the Surveillance State

The government is using provisions of the Patriot Act and the FISA Amendments Act to regularly track ...

A Living Death

For 3,278 people, it was nonviolent offenses like stealing a $159 jacket or serving as a middleman in ...