Perspective: Civil Libertarian
NewsItems:
- Pentagon Creates Massive Student Database
- UN Experts: Torture claims "Persistent," "Credible"
- Supreme Court Rules for City that Seized Property
- Scores of Muslim Men Jailed Without Charges
- Torture Lawsuit against Rumsfeld Will Be Heard
- AP Poll Reveals Support for Church, State Seperation
- Surveillance of Peaceful Protesters
- O'Connor Replacement Could Roll Back Vital Protections
- Stop Investigate Prosecute
- Srebrenica's Most Wanted Remain Free
- World Refugee Day
- Restrictive Policies Undermine Anti-Aids Effort
- American in Iraq still Held though Cleared of Wrongdoing by FBI
- Bring War Criminals to Justice
- Discriminatory Voter Law in Georgia
- Commute Jordanian Death Sentences
- Inquiry Yields No Repremand
- Inquiry Needed over Death of Nine
- UNMK Housing Minorities on Lead Smelt
- Russia Discriminates against HIV Victems
- Kazakhstan to Deport Uzbek Human Rights Advocate
- Iran Still Executes Minors
- No Due Process for Guantanamo Detainees
- Full Investigation into Shooting
- US Military Commissions
- Nigeria: Routine Torture Despite Reforms
- Patriot Act Modification Good Step
- Government Releases New Documents Detailing Abuse at Guantnamo Bay
- Unsafe Munitions Must Be Destroyed
- Iraqi Constitution Must Not Erode Womens Rights
- CAFTA Falls Short on Workers Rights
- Meatpacking's Human Toll
- Cruel Confinement of "Enemy Combatant"
- Breathalizer Tests Forced on Pedestrians?
- Still Waiting for Justice
- Toothless Defender of Civil Liberties
- Legal Papers Unsealed Today in ACLU Quest for Government's Abu Ghraib Torture Images
- Bush, Torture and Lincoln’s Legacy
- New Anti-Personel Mines
- Web Writer's Arrest Stifles Debate
- The Rules Haven't Changed
- UK Forces Asylum Seekers back to Iraq
- Deportations to Jordan Illegal
- The de Menezes Killing
- UK:New Measures Attack to Rights
- Impunity Encourages Killings
- Abductions by Palestinan Gunmen
- Greek Conscientious Objector
- UK: Forcable Return to Iraq Unlawful
- Nepal: Children Caught in Conflict
- Russia: Support UN Rights Council
- Yemen: Harassment of journalists
- China, UN Sign Human Rights Pact
- US Tries to Exclude Some from Rights Council
- Changes to Commissions "Cosmetic"
- EU China Summit
- Dissident Forced to Psychiatric Hospital
- Sympathy for Katrina Victims
- Not at the Price of Impunity
- Forced Labor in Myanmar
- Harassment and Detention of Uighurs
- Chad Cameroon Pipeline
- The Assault on Scientific Freedom
- Systemic Failure in Interrogation
- No to Unfair Trials
- Uzbek Refugees in Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistan: Massive Crackdown
- Ugandans Resist Anti-Condom Agenda
- Uzbekistan Must Condemn Torture
- Guantánamo Hunger Strikers Critically Ill
- Documentation of Abuses At Guantánamo
- Ukrain: No Action against Torture
- Leadership Failure
- Prisoners Abandoned to Floodwaters
- New Accounts of Torture
- Ecuador's Labor Abuses
- A War on Ideas
- FedEx Accused of Discrimination
- Unauthorized Reproduction Bill
- Italian Ciber Cafes Track Users
- Blogger Has Right to Anonymity
- French Blacks Skeptical of Race Neutrality
- Reporter, Denied Treatment, Dies of TB
- Reporter Sentenced in Turkey
- Big Brother in Your Car
- Data Collector is Homeland Security Contractor
- Internet Suveillance
- Google Image Search Sued
- Right to Read Public Web Pages
- Journalist: Attempt on Own Life
- Government Sponsored Extremism
- Ridge: RFID Boosts Security
- New Hampshire Abortion Restriction
- IBM: Genetic Data off Limits
- Star Witness is Security Camera
- Denver Police Spy Cover-Up
- An American Journey
- Judge Blocks Photo ID Requirement
- Fighting Eminent Domain
- Snitch Codes in Color Laser Prints
- Mariland Photographs Plates
- Thousands of Children Sentenced to Life
- US and Cuba Separate Families
- Wikipedia Censored in China
- Vassili Grodnikov of Belarus
- FBI Spying Violations
- Torture "Evidence" Unacceptable
- UN Commission on Human rights
- Patriot Act Reforms Needed
- Explore Alito's Record
- Microsoft and Sneeky Legislation
- Sony Spies on Users
- National Security Letters
- Peer-to-Peer Downloads Unabated
- ID and Voting Laws
- Website Keeps Name
- Watch Your Metadata
- Exclusion of Scholars
- Internet Freedom
- Habeas Corpus at Guantanamo
- Saddam Could be Tried in Secret
- Know Your Place?
- Genveva Convention
- Native America
- EU Should Investigate US Camps
- Torture Conference
- Illegal Expulsion over Bumpersticker
- Fired for Pregnancy
- Virginia University Drops Charges
- Anti-Gay, Anti-Choice Student Essays
- Indians Targeted in Meth Sting
- Gay-Straight Alliance Settlement
- ACLU Files Challenge to Online Wiretapping Power Grab
- Senate Restores Some Rights for Detainees
- Extraordinary Rendition
- Lawsuit Challenging CIA’s “Extraordinary Rendition”
- Presidential Order on Detention Centers?
- Patriot Activism
- The Execution of Stanley Williams
- Permission to Work
- Anti-Immigrant Bill
- Domestic Spying
- Civil Tights Groups Oppose Alito
- Crumbling Constitution
- Rock / Hardplace
- UK Airfields
- ACLU Calls for Special Counsel to Investigate Spying
- A fictional 'war on Christmas'
- Mother Brings Claim against US
- NYT Wiretap Ad
- Papers Please - Victory
- Strip-Search Court Ruling
- Investigation of NSA Whistleblower
- Investigating Extraordinary Renditions
- Diebold Touch-Screens
- Prisoners’ First Amendment Rights
- Free Speech, Neo-Nazi Video
- Diebold Out of NC
- Minuteman Leader
- Idaho, Human Rights Center
- Investigate President's Spying Order
- An NSA Whistleblower
- Millions Mix It Up
- Manassas Backs Down on Family Rights
- Unlawfully Seized Evidence
- Real ID a Real Nightmare
- ACLU Oposses Alito Nomination
- Election Division/Political Consultant
- Christian Prisoner Barred from Preaching
- Unit Covered Up Detainee Abuse
- Michigan Judge Thumbs Nose at Supreme Court
- Gender Discrimination in Insurance Coverage
- School’s Strip Searches of Teenagers
- Emergency Contraception for Rape Victims
- Justice Department Spin on NSA Spying
- Marriage for Same-Sex Couples
- Privacy Concerns Swell ACLU Ranks
- President Ignored Rule of Law
- Settlement in "No Fly" Case
- Spying on Quakers
- North Pole Patriots
- Conservatives V. Patriot Act
- Pentagon Files on Peace Groups
- Coretta Scott King
- Shut Down Illegal Spying
- Paramilitary Compound
- Honoring End-of-Life Wishes
- ACLU of Florida Seeks Pentagon Files
- Secret Service Investigation of Student Essay
- Senate Inquiry Into Spying Program
- Homeowner Associations Must Respect Free Speech Rights
- End Secure Flight and Registered Traveler Programs
- extreme Anti-Gay Nebraska Law
- Illegally Obtained Information Used to Obtain Warrants
- Court TV and ACLU
- ACLU Urges Court to Reject Government’s Bid for Google Records
- Senior Officials Approved Abuse
- Poloce Chief Prevented CPR for Gay Man
- No Fishing through Google
- UN Should Hold US Accountable
- Who They're Spying on
- Accountability for U.S. Abuse of Power
- No to Indefinite Detention
- Financial Aid/Drug Convictions
- Right to Parody "Ex-Gay" Group
- Rights for Katrina Workers
- DOJ Stonewalling on Wiretapping
- "Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage" Curriculum
- Guantánamo Trials
- UN Should Investigate “Extraordinary Rendition”
- Honest Health Care Information
- Death Penalty Legislation
- The Immigration Bill and Privacy
- Proof of Racial Targeting in Major Meth Investigation
- Public Deserve Disclosure
- Mississippi Training Schools
- Eye on Extremists
- Anti-Choice Plates
- Freedom of Choice Act
- AT&T Dragnet
- DearAOL.com
- Connecticut Gag
- Government Authentication of Abu Ghraib Abuse
- Disciplined for Wearing an American Flag
- Ban Blocking Muslim Scholar
- Should the Sender Pay?
- Labor Abuses
- Immigration and Privacy
- Homeless Rights
- Civil Rights Vs. Wiretapping
- Going Lawless
- Homeland Security and CDC
- An Evening without...
- NSA Spythin Bill Delayed
- White House Privacy Board
- Student's Free Speach
- Intervention in AT&T Surveillance Case
- EFF Honors Craigslist, Gigi Sohn, and Jimmy Wales
- Voting Rights Act Renewal
- Government Knew Abuse was Widespread
- Quitting Real ID
- Accountability for Torture
- Youth Activist Scholarship
- CIA Kidnapping of German Citizen is No "State Secret,"
- Restore Rule of Law
- US Incompliance with Torture Treaty
- Phone Company Hides Behind "State Secrets"
- Victim of CIA Kidnapping
- EFF Can Use Critical AT&T Documents
- AT&T Requests Closed Courtroom
- Privacy Violations by AT&T
- Rumsfeld Shirks Responsibility
- Don't Block Consituent Email
- School District Should Stop Illegally Blocking Gay-Straight Alliance Club
- Suicides at Guantánamo
- Reject Limits on First Amendment
- Dysfunctional Border Protection
- Suicide Attempts at Guantánamo
- Gutting Voting Rights
- Spying on Bank Records
- Visa for Muslim Scholar
- Limiting Prisoner Rights
- Gorvernment Brain Scanning
- Banking Data Privacy
- Blocked Human Rights Protest
- Ideological Exclusion
- Drug War Excesses
- Complying with Federal Law
- Rights Body Harshly Criticizes U.S. Human Rights Record
- ACLU Raises Spying Issue at BellSouth Shareholder Meeting on AT&T Merger
- Renewal of Voting Rights Act
- Cohabitation Ban Unconstitutiona
- Racist Extremists in US Military
- Innocent People Watchlisted
- Transparency Vital to American Democracy
- Reject Draft White House Proposal on Detainees
- Anti-Immigrant Ordinance
- Block of Minimum Wage Increase
- New Communications Environment
- Property Tax Drive out N.J. Residents
- Secrecy surrounding shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes
- Ceasefire Must Hold
- Free Speech Rights of Lt. Ehren Watada
- Green Party of Arkansas Candidates on the November Ballot
- Effort to Relocate Mt. Soledad Memorial
- FDA Shift on Plan B is a Step in the Right Direction
- "This Film Is Not Yet Rated" Screening
- Prisoner Died Due to Deficient Care
- Pentagon Withholding Images of Detainee Abuse
- Faulty Machines, Not Voters, Decided Election
- Free Speech Groups Urge Court to Reject FCC Censorship
- Child Welfare Advocates Speak Out in Support of Marriage for Same-Sex Couples
- Victim of CIA Kidnapping and Abuse Seeks Acknowledgement
- Terror Ranking Program Is Already in Effect
- Real ID Fix Bill
- Torture Case Against Rumsfeld
- Government Attempt to Seize "Secret" Document
- School desegregation efforts under attack
- Stop Arbitrary Skid Row Searches
- ACLU Calls on Gates to Investigate Sensory Deprivation
- Review Harmful Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Curriculum
- Wyoming Voting Rights Case
- Government Backs Down in its Attempt to Seize "Secret" Document
- U.S. Citizen Asks Federal Court to Insure Safe Passage
- Reject Bush Global AIDS Gag
- Bush’s Power to Open Americans’ Mail
- Abuses Reported by Agents at Guantánamo
- Secret Interrogation Memos
- Unlawful Government Spying on Americans
- Senate Hearing on Government Breaches of Privacy
- Bush Administration Fails to Sign Accord on Secret Detentions
- Bill Eliminating Online Privacy
- Virginia's Senate Committees Reject Anti-Immigrant Legislation
- U.S. Government Illegally Censoring Speech at Border
- Anti-Muslim Proselytizing to High School Students
- Real ID Repair Proposal
- Children Held in Prison-Like Conditions
- Support Free Speech Rights of Servicemembers
- End to Over-Policing in New York City Schools
- National Security Letter Abuses
- Rumsfeld Torture Case Dismissed
- Restore Due Process
- History and Promise of Ellis Island
- Concerns Over Flaws in Civil Rights Restoration Plan
- Congress Must Close Guantanamo Bay
- Immigrant Children Detained
- Deaths at Butler County Jail
- Files on Civilian Casualties
- FISA Modernization
Platform:
[Example Perspective] All across the world human rights and civil liberties are under attack. In first world countries, the "war on terrorism" has ushered in a new age of attacks on our privacy and right to live as we choose. In the third world the situation is even more dire.