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ACLU calls on Obama in full-page New York Times ad
March 8, 2010 9:37 pm | By Ellyn Fortino, Communications Intern
The American Civil Liberties Union published a full-page ad in the New York Times featuring a black-and-white picture of President Obama morphing into former President Bush on March 7. Above... Continue reading
ACLU of Illinois Stands up for the Right to sit down
March 8, 2010 9:35 pm | By Ellyn Fortino, Communications Intern
Recently, the Roger Baldwin Foundation of the ACLU of Illinois spoke out on behalf of a concerned member of the Centralia community who learned that Centralia High School had a... Continue reading
US military spied on Planned Parenthood
March 1, 2010 9:37 pm | By Ellyn Fortino, Communications Intern
Raw Story reported the United States military intelligence spied on Planned Parenthood along with a white supremacist group as part of a safety precaution for the 2002 Olympics in Salt... Continue reading
Chicago to be part of first anti-gay housing discrimination study
February 26, 2010 8:29 pm | By Ellyn Fortino, Communications Intern
The government is preparing a first-ever study of housing discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people that will include data from Chicago and begin Thursday, according to the Huffington... Continue reading
Congress reauthorizes Patriot Act provisions
February 26, 2010 8:27 pm | By Ellyn Fortino, Communications Intern
The American Civil Liberties Union reported the House passed a one-year extension of three expiring Patriot Act provisions Thursday without changes to the overly broad surveillance bill. The provisions of... Continue reading
Abolish the Death Penalty
February 24, 2010 10:03 pm | Posted by Allie Carter
It is time to end Illinois’ flawed and expensive death penalty system. For more than a decade, Illinois has had a moratorium on the use of the death penalty. The... Continue reading
Full-body scanners at O’hare: Invasion of privacy
February 24, 2010 8:30 pm | By Ellyn Fortino, Communications Intern
The first full-body scanners will arrive next week at O’Hare International Airport, according to a Chicago Tribune article. In the article, Ed Yohnka, spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union... Continue reading
Schools vs. social networking: Oak Forest student suspended for Facebook fan page
February 22, 2010 8:41 pm | By Ellyn Fortino, Communications Intern
After a student at Oak Forest High School received a five-day out-of-school suspension for creating a Facebook fan page about his teacher at his home, the American Civil Liberties Union... Continue reading
ACLU calls for criminal investigation of the torture program
February 22, 2010 8:39 pm | By Ellyn Fortino, Communications Intern
The American Civil Liberties Union called on the Justice Department to expand its criminal investigation of the Bush administration’s torture program after a Department of Justice’s Office of Professional Responsibility... Continue reading
College students: Studying on an airplane may lead to interrogation
February 19, 2010 8:42 pm | By Ellyn Fortino, Communications Intern
Nicholas George, a Pomona College student in California, was abusively interrogated, handcuffed and detained for almost five hours at the Philadelphia International Airport in August 2009 for carrying English-Arabic flashcards,... Continue reading