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Speakers at yesterday’s rally, including Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner and representatives of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Commit-tee, argued that the American response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was threatening the civil liberties of students, foreigners and U.S. citizens...
...should not be frightened into giving up our hard-won constitutional rights,” Nancy Murray, director of the Bill of Rights Education Project for the Mass. chapter of the ACLU, told the crowd...
...flock to the ACLU in the face of controversy, and look to the Rev. Jesse Jackson to help us answer life’s difficult questions. Our publications lean to the left and our student groups embrace the magnanimity of bleeding hearts. I can probably tick off the names of each self-proclaimed Republican at the school—it wouldn’t take long...
...that televangelists Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson have softened up the book-buying public with their remarks about the ACLU, gays and abortion rights supporters being responsible for the terrorist attacks, it?s time for "The Broken Hearth: Reversing the Moral Collapse of the American Family" by William J. Bennett (Doubleday; September...
This summer, I thought a lot about identity politics and the dangers of racial profiling while working at the American Civil Liberties Union in San Francisco. As an aspiring civil rights attorney, working at the ACLU was a dream job, and I spent nine happy weeks reading over case files. One of the old cases I reviewed was Korematsu vs. United States. Fred Korematsu was an activist who defied the internment camp order. The ACLU argued against Japanese internment before the Supreme Court, and in a disgraceful ruling, the Court decided in favor of the continued imprisonment of Japanese-Americans...