Mayoral Candidate Rossbach asks Maplewood Police to Remove Public

"   3-26-09 [Councilman]Will Rossbach asked Maplewood police to remove the public from the last Smoke Task Force.  Council Member Rossbach didn't get the group to vote his way tonight, so he then tried to...

Transsexual wins $500,000 lawsuit

The American Civil Liberties Union had argued the case on Schroer's behalf. Paul Cates with the ACLU's Lesbian and Gay Rights Project said the ruling was significant because a federal judge said that discriminating against someone for changing genders is sex discrimination...

Suit decries US funding of Catholic outreach

" The US Department of Health and Human Services hired the US Conference of Catholic Bishops in 2006 to help immigrants who had been forced into prostitution or slave labor. The bishops have disseminated millions...

ACLU Sues Bush Admin For Letting Catholic Bishops Spare Women ...

" The ACLU has filed a suit against the Bush administration for allowing taxpayer funding of a Catholic program that spares women abortions. The pro-abortion law firm sued the Department ...

Denver Cops Mace Their Own Provocateurs at Dem Convention

In a fascist Keystone Kops scenario, Denver police agent provocatuers and a uniformed police commander were pepper-sprayed by another officer who didn't know their struggle was staged. The presence of the provocateurs was revealed in a police report obtained by the ACLU,...

ACLU highlights 'Constitution-Free Zone' 100 miles from border

What country do you live in; which world do the Republocrats live in? If you're inside the US and within 100 miles of the border, you're in a Constitution free zone. "Nearly two-thirds of the US population lives within 100 miles of the border, according to the ACLU, and the...

ACLU demands info on domestic military deployments

The ACLU is demanding info on the deployment of US troops on US soil, in violation of Posse Comitatus. If you missed the news, see Glenn Greenwald's commentary: Why is a U.S. Army brigade being assigned to the "Homeland"?"Following reports that US troops will be permanently...

GESTAPO USA: Gov't-Funded Vigilante Network Terrorizes America

• Pervasive NSA surveillance of the public and journalists just baseline program for array of extrajudicial abuses -- organized community watch "gang stalking,"  financial expropriation, and "slow genocide" via silent, invisible microwave and laser radiation weapons...

Federal Court Rules Against Federal Subversion of State Medical Marijuana Laws

"Federal Court Rules Against Federal Subversion of State Medical Marijuana Laws by ACLU Blog of Rights (03 Sept, 2008) The court battles over medical marijuana and state versus federal laws continues For the first time, a court has recognized that a concerted effort...

ACLU wants prisons to become polling places

"There are few radical left-wing organizations more obnoxious than the American Civil Liberties Union. That’s because the ACLU doesn’t just pack a tie-dyed Volkswagen full of leftover San Fransisco hippies and drive to your area to protest, they pack a private jet full...

Georgia Execution for September 23: Troy Anthony Davis, Possibly Innocent

Troy Anthony Davis is scheduled for execution by lethal injection  in Georgia on September 23, 2008.  Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU, is appealing to the public to object to Mr....

Refusing to be silenced

"On July 24, about 100 people gathered in Baltimore for a forum to stand up against a long-term spying operation conducted by the Maryland State Police against anti-death penalty and antiwar activists. The...

TYC - EDUCATION - OXYMORON?

Most people who are familiar with the Texas Youth Commission (TYC), know that education and TYC is indeed a oxymoron. A recently released, detailed report about the statewide education program in TYC verified that youth are provided with a poor education. Many were well...

U.S. Watch List Suggests Everyone's A Terrorist

The U.S. terrorist watch list now has more than one million names on it, according the ACLU. Just don't look too hard at who's on it -- you might find a few dead folks, the odd Nobel Peace prize winner, and maybe...

Husband Allowed to Take Wife’s Surname

In one of the American Civil Liberty Union’s better battles they assisted Michael Bijon (formally Buday) in taking his wife’s family name.   The effort began three years ago when Michael Buday and Diana Bijon were married in California.  It would have cost...

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