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9 Mar

Today kicks off the confirmation hearing of Vanita Gupta to Associate Attorney General.

ACLU alumni have a long history of serving our country, and we’re particularly proud of Vanita’s work.

Prior to her nomination to deputy AG, Gupta rose from a staff attorney to Deputy Legal Director and the Director of the Center for Justice here at the ACLU.

Leading our criminal justice docket, Gupta was able to establish impactful relationships across partisan and ideological divides that worked to reduce the footprint of mass incarceration.

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6 Mar

March is #WomensHistoryMonth. We're honoring women who've broken barriers, changed culture, and made history.

Aimee Stephens is one of those women. She was a plaintiff in the landmark case that affirmed workplace protections for LGBTQ people last June.

Let's revisit her story.

Aimee had worked for nearly six years as a funeral director in Michigan.

Two weeks after she informed the funeral home's owner that she was trans, Aimee was fired.

Aimee decided to fight back, and we ultimately represented her at the Supreme Court.

Tragically, Aimee's firing caused her to suffer financially and left her without health insurance when her kidneys failed.

Aimee passed away before she could see that the Supreme Court ruled in her favor.

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5 Mar

BREAKING: We just secured a partial settlement that is an important first move to restoring abortion access in Guam.

The settlement ensures that an outdated Guam statute cannot be used to restrict access to medication abortion, including through telemedicine.

The settlement clears the way for people in Guam to be able to access abortion in their own community, as opposed to flying nearly 4,000 miles to Hawaiʻi — or further — just to access legal abortion.

There is still work to do to eliminate harmful and medically unnecessary obstacles to accessing abortion in Guam, and we're going to court later this month to do just that.

But for today, we're celebrating this win for reproductive freedom in Guam.

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5 Mar

The Diversity Visa program helps ensure that people with fewer opportunities to come to the US through other pathways have a chance to come here — until Trump all but ended the program.

This affected people like Anwar, who won the diversity visa lottery.
thedailybeast.com/trumps-muslim-…

Yemen is in the midst of a dangerous war. When Anwar won his visa, he traveled through militant-controlled regions and checkpoints to get the documentation he needed and spent his life savings.

He was then informed that his visa was denied because of the Muslim ban.

Anwar, his wife, and two kids had an opportunity to escape the war and come to the US — until Trump ripped it away.

Their fate hangs in the balance, along with many others in Yemen, other countries in the region, and African countries as well.

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3 Mar

HR 1 includes critical reforms for our voting rights but also contains significant flaws. Congress must fix them.

It would require many nonprofits to publicly disclose some donor’s names and addresses when they engage in certain advocacy. So why care?
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…

Last summer, some people online called for an investigation into who was “funding” Black Lives Matter demonstrations, after videos showed a man distributing protest signs and other provisions to protesters.

Presumably, the purpose was to accuse donors of wrongdoing.

Our security and privacy shouldn’t be threatened when we protest police brutality.

But, potential exposure to threats of harassment or violence for nonprofit donors is not the only First Amendment problem with the bill.

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25 Feb

Black wall streets signified Black ingenuity and excellence in the face of blatant, intentional racism.

Let's revisit the story of one of them: The Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma. #BlackHistoryMonth

In the 1920s, Greenwood was one of the richest neighborhoods in America. Not the richest Black neighborhood — the richest.

But wealth did not mean equality. White residents were disturbed by the growing Black prosperity, and their resentment grew.

Ultimately, in 1921, a white lynch mob sparked the Tulsa Massacre that burned the neighborhood down.

This massacre destroyed more than 35 blocks, 1,200 homes, and led to the death of at least 300 Black residents.

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