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NYCLU Report from OWS Anniversary Protests
Approximately 3,000 protesters from across the country amassed in New York City’s financial district to celebrate Occupy Wall Street’s one year anniversary. Refusing to be deterred by the barricades and checkpoints that precluded them from entering the area by the New York Stock Exchange, protesters broke into numerous roving marches, chanting, singing and throwing confetti. The NYPD’s response to many of these marches was more tempered than previously observed in other Occupy protests, and a fair number of arrests were the result of civil disobedience.
FOIA Documents Show FBI Was Watching Occupy Protestors, Some Docs Still Secret on National Security Grounds
Just shy of the one-year anniversary of the inaugural Occupy Wall Street protests, the ACLU of Northern California obtained initial documents from the FBI about surveillance of Occupy demonstrations in the region (see the FBI’s response here).
Spanish language resources on US Supreme Court decision on Arizona Immigration Law
http://www.miaclu.org/ is now updated with a Spanish language press release on the home page and at this link:http://www.miaclu.org/en/unidos/la-aclu-anuncia-una-campa%C3%B1-nacional-para-detener-la-sb-1070-y-leyes-similares-en-respuesta--0Also, Andre Segura's Spanish know your rights video is also on the home page:http://www.miaclu.org/en/unidos/video-de-conozca-sus-derechos-sb1070-y-el-tribunal-supremo
U.S. Supreme Court Decision on Arizona Law Strikes Down Three Key Parts of the Law
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJune 25, 2012 Little
ACLU Demands That Two Public School Districts in Little Rock Stop Censoring LGBT Websites
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ACLU of Arkansas Lauds Valley View School District Decision Not to Ban Book, The Kite Runner
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJanuary 3, 2012Little Rock, AR - The American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas is praising Monday night's decision by the Valley View School Board in Jonesboro, Arkansas to keep the book, The Kite Runner in the 12th grade English curriculum. A substitute teacher had tried unsuccessfully to have the book removed from the classroom on the basis that it contained a homosexual rape scene, profanity, content pertaining to Islamic belief, and lacked Biblical views.
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