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 | | All Churches have libertie to deale with any of their members in a church way that are in the hand of Justice. | | | Every Church hath full libertie to exercise all the ordinances of god, according to the rules of scripture. | | | A Declaration of the Liberties the Lord Jesus hath given to the Churches. |
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http://history.hanover.edu/texts/masslib.htm
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| | UUA: Civil Liberties: 2004 UUA General Resolution |
| | Civil liberties are also essential to the free expression and practice of our faith tradition and to the diversity of faith traditions in America. | | | Liberty is at the core of our Unitarian Universalist faith. | | | Prophetic people of all faiths have been instrumental in defending liberty throughout history. |
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http://www.uua.org/actions/civil-liberties/04civil-liberties.html
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| | [The Abu Ali Case and] Balancing Liberties, Security - article by Daniel Pipes |
| | The Abu Ali Case and] Balancing Liberties, Security | | | [The Abu Ali Case and] Balancing Liberties, Security | | | Looking at America, the "united we stand" solidarity that followed September 11, 2001, lasted just some months, after which a much deeper divide emerged as conservatives proved far more profoundly affected by the atrocities than did liberals. |
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http://www.danielpipes.org/article/2434
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| | American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky |
| | “As the Justices today affirmed, religious liberty is best strengthened by following the Constitution’s command against government entanglement with religion, not by government involvement in religious decision-making,” said ACLU Legal Director Steven R Shapiro. | | | Historic Ruling in Ten Commandments Case Affirms Religious Liberty Principles in Strongest Terms, ACLU Says - June 27, 2005 | | | WASHINGTON -- Today’s historic Supreme Court ruling that display of the Ten Commandments in two Kentucky courthouses violates the Constitution contains some of the Court’s most powerful language in years on the question of the government’s role in religion and society, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. |
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| | Sensei's Library: Liberty - introductory |
| | Still, shortage of liberties has many forms relating even to apparently safe groups. | | | Capture has a couple of senses, as these comments reveal: successfully shut in stones, which can't survive with two eyes (or seki), are referred to as dead; and in those cases their number of liberties may not matter. | | | When stones have two eyes they are safe, and you could say that their number of liberties has also ceased to matter. |
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http://senseis.xmp.net/?LibertyIntroductory
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| | Civil liberties - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | However, the Charter does protect freedom of religion. | | | In many places there are disputes over certain liberties, regarding the question of whether they can be considered civil liberties at all, and, if so, whether they should be protected. | | | Derry Irvine (then the Lord Chancellor) was praised widely for his legal skill in overseeing the drafting of the bill. |
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| | Civil Liberties Crisis |
| | With tens of thousands of readers and visitors, we can strike a powerful blow for liberty together. | | | As libertarians, we proudly affirm the right of each individual to freely live in any peaceful way he or she chooses, as long as they respect the rights of others. | | | Many of these are the same old proposals friends of liberty have been fighting for years, now dusted off and re-introduced as “anti-terrorism” bills. |
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http://www.theadvocates.org/civilliberties.html
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| | BBC NEWS Politics Terror laws 'attack civil liberties' |
| | "What Blunkett is now doing is not just depriving liberty, it's depriving identity, the citizenship... | | | Anti-terror legislation introduced by the government has done more to attack people in Britain than defend them from terrorists, according to leading QC Mike Mansfield. | | | Another speaker - lawyer Gareth Pierce - described how her work took her to the high security police station at Paddington Green in London where she represents people detained under the anti-terror legislation. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3025603.stm
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| | People' s Union for Civil Liberties |
| | The demolitions in Mumbai rendered thousands of people homeless and became a significant commentary on the Indian state. | | | A conference organised by by PUCL Gujarat lists problems and concerns with the proposed bill to combat communal violence. | | | Here lies an example of a state that prides in being democratic and just but acts just opposite to the detriment of the basic civil rights, liberties and interests of its citizens that it is bound to preserve and protect under the law of the land. |
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| | Cassel: Civil Liberties Watch |
| | On Tuesday, November 22, two cases that I had followed and written about since their inception took a strange turn. | | | This illogic and hypocrisy extends even to the naming of many recent laws. | | | When the book went to press, Judge Rosen was considering defense motions to set aside the verdicts. |
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| | It Can't Happen Here by Ron Paul |
| | American history, at least in part, is a history of people who don’t like being told what to do. | | | But we ought to be concerned that we have laid the foundation for tyranny by making the public more docile, more accustomed to government bullying, and more accepting of arbitrary authority – all in the name of security. | | | Terror, fear, and crises like 9-11 are used to achieve complacency and obedience, especially when citizens are deluded into believing they are still a free people. |
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul225.html
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| | AlterNet: The Civil Liberties Candidate? |
| | The other group would be conservatives who have been specifically alienated by attacks on civil liberties. | | | And among this group, a core constituency is socially conservative Muslims who previously might have voted for Bush. | | | In the view of Johnson-Weinberger, Howard Dean initially stood out as a champion of civil liberties, but the other candidates were quick to follow, not necessarily singling out the issue but making it a given part of their platforms. |
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http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17795
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| | NOW with Bill Moyers. Politics & Economy. Civil Liberties after 9/11: Timeline PBS |
| | Habeas corpus says that authorities must bring a person they arrest before a judge who orders it. | | | Civil War scholars generally point to the large pockets of anti-war sentiment in the Union states as a justification for his wartime suspension of civil liberties. | | | Today there are many "Confederate" Web sites which label Lincoln a "dictator" for these wartime acts. |
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| | Northern Liberties News Rooms |
| | The exact location is confused because of a house renumbering that has taken place. | | | This address is in the Northern Liberties, one block west of North Third, between North Third and North Fourth, and a block closer to Vine Street than the Northern Liberties News Room. | | | It seems probable then that McMakin used the words “Sub Post Office” on his stamp to indicate that his News Room was a regular stop and pick up location for the U.S. letter carrier who served that section of the Northern Liberties. |
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| | American Civil Liberties Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Law professor David Bernstein's book "You Can't Say That! | | | The ACLU is one of the most influential NGOs in the United States today; often controversial, its stances have engendered criticism from both sides of the political spectrum (see Critics of the ACLU). | | | The ACLU was originally established in 1917 as the National Civil Liberties Bureau (NCLB), an outgrowth of the American Union Against Militarism, an organization that was against American intervention in World War I. |
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| | Reason |
| | A close look at his campaign's statements on the PATRIOT Act, however, reveals that there is less to his opposition than meets the eye. | | | We have been told repeatedly that the world has changed since 9/11. | | | This isn't the first time Kerry and Ashcroft have been at odds over civil liberties. |
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| | Slashdot U.S. Says Canada Cares Too Much About Liberties |
| | Americans with an interest in the civil liberties of all people, not just those americans with the power and money to defend their own (and to take those of others), many of whom I'm sure read slashdot should fight terrorism in their own way. | | | It's not about what they cannot do, but what they see America (as a symbol for the global economic system?) doing to them. | | | The american stereotype as ignorant and insular is in no small part influenced by the fact that by and large most americans only see one culture, their own. |
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http://slashdot.org/articles/03/05/04/2311201.shtml?tid=103&tid=99
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| | The framers sought to establish a society in which the practice of liberty was paramount. | | | Strict Construction-the view that only liberties specifically mentioned are protected | | | Arizona (1966) established that you must be informed of your rights before being questioned. |
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http://www.kencollier.org/classes/PSC141/lectures_PSC141/CivilLiberties/CivilLiberties.html
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| | You simply can't trust French speakers! MetaFilter |
| | All these fabulous derails aside, I think the point here is that America is supposed to be the country that values liberty above all things, including (perhaps even especially) personal safety. | | | It seems in recent events the U.S. has thrown away personal liberties in the name of fighting terrorism. | | | Given Canada's emphasis on civil liberties and maintenance of its principles in avoiding goose-lock-stepping into Iraq with a certain cowardly invader, it is apparent that the "land of the free, home of the brave" moniker really belongs with our northern neighbor....and not with the United, Terrorized, Reactionary States of America. |
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| | AlterNet: Special Coverage: Rights and Liberties |
| | Take action to stop violence and prejudice against groups and individuals because of race, religion, disability, or sexual orientation. | | | The United States has now reached the point where a total | | | Keep up to date on what civil liberties issues are being discussed in Congress. |
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| | The American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin, Inc. (ACLU/WI) |
| | She added, "I really enjoyed meeting the people who do these jobs and realizing that they are just like us." Full Story | | | Students each chose two scenarios out of seven offered that were based on currents events from a local, state, national and international level. | | | This award is given every year to organizations within the state of Wisconsin that have demonstrated a commitment to the Association's goals, specifically working toward a positively valued multicultural, nonsexist, nonracist, and humanistic society. |
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| | Genesee Valley Civil Liberties Union |
| | Check out our Cases and Issues Page for material on national identity cards, students' right to engage in political satire, the efforts of a pagan group to hold a festival, the "do not procreate" case, and more. | | | The American Civil Liberties Union is a national membership organization with over 400,000 members in fifty states. | | | Our mission is to preserve and protect the Constitutional freedoms guaranteed in the Bill of Rights for all who live in America. |
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| | Statewatch: monitoring civil liberties in the EU |
| | Material may be used on the condition that the source is acknowledged. | | | Statewatch European Monitoring and Documentation Centre website on justice and home affairs and civil liberties in the EU), just £25 pa for individuals and £60 pa for institutions and libraries. | | | EU: Security research programme to look at creating "smart" biometric documents which will "locate,identify and follow the movement of persons" through "automatic chips with positioning": |
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| | A non- US view on Net liberties -- a collection of papers from a conference on free speech in cyberspace at the University of Waterloo. | | | The keynote address at the first conference of Computers, Freedom, and Privacy. | | | Tribe takes the idea that "the Constitution protects people not places" and derives from it a sort of principle of technological neutrality -- the meaning of the Consitution should not depend on the "accidental features" of a particular technology. |
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| | village voice > news > Nat Hentoff by Nat Hentoff |
| | A few days after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said that as a result, we would have to give up some of our liberties. | | | So where is the oversight going to come from? | | | Reacting to Rehnquist's deference to the executive branch in previous wars, Adam Cohen, legal affairs writer for The New York Times, wrote: "The people whose liberties are taken away are virtually invisible" in the pages of Rehnquist's book. |
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| | The court order, based on an antiquated law that criminalizes "lewd and lascivious cohabitation," prohibits his girlfriend from sleeping at their shared home on the nights when the children are in the home. | | | RICHMOND, VA -- The America Civil Liberties Union of Virginia today announced that it will support a legal challenge to a City of Manassas ordinance that prevents aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, great-grandparents, or great-grandchildren from living together as family unit. | | | WASHINGTON - With a vote looming on an ill-considered and short-sighted immigration bill, the American Civil Liberties Union today urged the House of Representatives to oppose legislation that would have a detrimental impact on Americans’ ability to work and would also undermine due process in the immigration system. |
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| | Letter from LWVUS President Kay J. Maxwell to the U.S Congress in opposition to the conference report on H.R. 3199, the reauthorization of the USA PATRIOT Act. | | | Basic civil liberties must be protected as the nation seeks to guard against terrorism and other threats to national security. | | | The project has three main components.One component involved facilitating ten public deliberations in communities across the country in June 2005. |
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http://www.lwv.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Civil_Liberties&Template=/TaggedPage/TaggedPageDisplay.cfm&TPLID=22&ContentID=1056
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| | Civil Liberties, Library Records and The Freedom to Read Act |
| | Representative Sanders was one of only 66 Members of the House of Representatives to vote against the USA Patriot Act. | | | But the way to do this is not by abandoning the principles that have guided our Nation for more than 200 years. | | | The right to privacy, free expression, legal representation, and not being subjected to unwarranted searches and seizures are just a few of the liberties which are being threatened and abused by the Bush Administration. |
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| | beSpacific: Civil Liberties Archives |
| | Although 16 provisions will now sunset in four as opposed to seven years (including library subpoenas and roving wiretaps), the contentious debate over whether this agreement adequately protects a range of civil liberties may provoke a filibuster. | | | News reports this afternoon on the compromise reached by the House and Senate on Patriot Act reauthorization include the strong caveat that not all Senators are satisfied (see statements as follows, from Leahy and Feingold), and opposition continues (specifically from the so-called gang of six). | | | The American people expect me to do everything in my power, under our laws and Constitution, to protect them and their civil liberties and that is exactly what I will continue to do as long as I am president of the United States..." |
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| | Dennis Kucinich on Civil Liberties |
| | Many provisions of the act had been long sought after by law enforcement and repeatedly rejected by Congress in the past. | | | I believe that the only way to stop these unconstitutional infringements on basic American freedoms is to revoke the exorbitant powers the PATRIOT Act has granted the government. | | | The "PATRIOT Act" is not what American patriots fought and died for. |
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| | quintessenz - Conference |
| | There will be blitz trainings concerning new features of the q/machine especially for EDRi-members. | | | The q/machine is a free software tool developed by LivingXML designed to assist civil liberties groups in all forms of communication. | | | European ISPs will be obliged to install proxy servers for the single reason of controlling their customers. |
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| | School Work on Civil Liberties |
| | Civil liberties are fundamental individual rights, such as freedom of speech and religion, protected by law against unwarranted governmental or other interference. | | | Click here to register and get the full text. | | | We are a group of citizens who volunteer our energy and talents to fulfill our mandate: to preserve, defend, maintain and extend civil liberties and human rights in British Columbia and across Canada. |
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| | BUBL LINK: Civil liberties |
| | Index to Internet resources covering personal growth, social change, personal, cultural and political empowerment. | | | These organisations include groups representing people of colour, women, labour unions, persons with disabilities, older Americans, major religious groups, gays and lesbians, and civil liberties and human rights groups. | | | Amnesty International plays a specific role in the international protection of human rights. |
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| | The Wrong Civil Liberties Board - Center for American Progress |
| | The structure of the board is also stacked against civil liberties. The chair will be the deputy attorney general, who traditionally plays a lead role in crime fighting. The vice-chair will be the under secretary for border and transportation security in the Department of Homeland Security, who oversees border control and immigration enforcement. | | | At first glance, the Bush approach seems to respond to the Commission's recommendations. | | | Echoing a recommendation of the 9/11 Commission, the president issued an executive order establishing the "President's Board on Safeguarding Americans' Civil Liberties," the first announced effort by this administration to address civil liberties across the federal government. |
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http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=180251
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| | People For the American Way - Civil Liberties Restoration Act |
| | Accordingly, PFAW supports the Civil Liberties Restoration Act (CLRA), which addresses the concerns surrounding the government’s recent actions with regard to national security and civil liberties. | | | What You Can Do to Restore Fundamental Civil Liberties! | | | There are three main areas that CLRA focuses on: 1) restoring basic due process rights for those non-citizens jailed by the government, 2) ending the practice of targeting immigrants generally instead of terrorists specifically, and 3) protecting privacy by ensuring limits on secret surveillance. |
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| | Welcome To Liberties Lofts |
| | Offering everything you need to live the urban lifestyle without the big city cost. | | | Check to see what Units will soon be Available! | | | Located at 5th and Brown Streets in Nothern Liberties. |
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http://www.libertieslofts.com
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| | American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa |
| | Rather, it relies solely upon the force of its moral arguments and the voices of its members to promote civil liberties in the state and federal legislatures. | | | About the ACLU-IA Founded in 1935, the AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF IOWA is the nation's fifth oldest state affiliate of the AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION. | | | The ACLU-IA is a nonpartisan organization that does not endorse or oppose candidates and does not contribute money to political campaigns. |
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| | People For the American Way - Constitutional Liberties |
| | This is a victory for all those who cherish our civil liberties. | | | The New York office of People For the American Way, along the New York Civil Liberties Union and the New York City Bill of Rights Defense Campaign, organized the event to urge reform of the PATRIOT Act, even as Congress considers expanding it and making it permanent. | | | The Bush administration's defense of this program has strained all conceivable boundaries of legal credibility and the president's steadfast refusal to curtail this program now raises the issue to the level of a legitimate constitutional crisis. |
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| | Civil Liberties |
| | Check to see if your community is listed in the "Civil Liberties Safe Zone" of American communities. | | | Civil liberties union raises concerns over FBI anti-terrorism info | | | He asks U.N. panel for court to enforce it |
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| | Canadian Civil Liberties Association |
| | We are a non-profit, non-government law-reform organization dealing with issues of fundamental civil liberties and human rights that affect those who live all across Canada. | | | While it always behooves us to keep an open mind about any new measures, our open mind should be accompanied by a cool head and a skeptical disposition. | | | On this site, you will find information about CCLA’s efforts to protect Canadians’ rights and freedoms, as well as information on how to join and get involved. |
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| | Irish Bar - The Liberties |
| | An Irish Bar in the traditional style, the Liberties is located on Guerrero Street in the eclectic Mission district of San Francisco. | | | Superb food, comfortable surroundings and a welcoming staff will make your visit enjoyable and memorable. | | | bar, The Liberties is the perfect choice for a relaxed evening out for |
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| | Welcome to the Maine Civil Liberties Union |
| | There are many opportunities to join us in our efforts. | | | The Maine Civil Liberties Union today applauded the Senate for rejecting a cloture motion to limit debate on legislation to reauthorize the Patriot Act, and expressed disappointment that both Senators from Maine voted in favor of limiting debate. | | | This afternoon, Bangor U.S. District Court Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr., issued an order striking down Augusta’s restrictions on the rights of peaceful protesters to march and gather in the state capital, holding that protesting “commands this Court’s protection.” |
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| | Wired 12.01: START |
| | Databases are always vulnerable to hackers (and subpoenas), but Brill says he'll minimize these dangers by storing only fingerprints, promising not to link them to other identifiable data, and appointing an ombudsman to ensure that his system respects civil liberties. | | | Brill also told me he was considering an alternative design that - like the Tomko plan - would store the fingerprint only on the card. | | | When card carriers go through a turnstile, they're verified without any travel information being transmitted back to the company. |
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| | CCLU - Home Page |
| | There is also a link provided to send messages to your legislators. | | | A Film by Robert Greenwald, UNCONSTITUTIONAL is an hour-long documentary detailing the shocking way that civil liberties of American citizens have been infringed upon, curtailed, and rolled back since 9/11 - all in the name of National Security. | | | Follow this link to our new Legislative Action Center. |
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| | Bonfire of the Liberties |
| | The Bonfire of Liberties: Censorship of the Humanities |
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| | NYCLU Front Page |
| | The suit also claims that New York City's film-permit scheme is unconstitutional and seeks a court order against its enforcement. | | | The New York Civil Liberties Union, in conjunction with the New York University Law School Civil Rights Clinic, filed a federal lawsuit in Manhattan today on behalf of a prominent documentary film maker who was arrested and detained by NYPD officers for filming on a public sidewalk in midtown. | | | "At a time when our president has claimed unprecedented authority to spy on Americans and jail terrorism suspects indefinitely, America needs a Supreme Court justice who will uphold our precious civil liberties," said ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero. |
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| | American Liberties Institute |
| | A growing community of attorneys and academics support this endeavor through the publication of educational material and speaking engagements. | | | American Liberties Institute is a non-profit civil liberties educational and legal defense organization created to defend and protect constitutional liberties. | | | Raising public awareness regarding civil liberties issues and offering educational services informing how the constitution protects these liberties is our primary objective. |
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| | Civil Liberties Monitoring Project |
| | The aim of CLMP, founded by local citizens of Southern Humboldt County, CA, is to encourage public awareness of constitutional rights and encourage involvement of the whole community in preserving and protecting them. | | | The purpose of the Civil Liberties Monitoring Project is to monitor, document, advocate and educate about civil rights and civil rights abuses by law enforcement and other government agencies in Humboldt, Mendocino and Trinity counties. | | | Hearings opened in the American Civil Liberties Union's challenge to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's policy of obstructing privately funded, FDA-approved scientific research that could lead to marijuana being approved as a prescription medicine. |
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