ACLU Calls Immigrant Registration Program Pretext for Mass Detentions

2002-12-19 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
ACLU Calls Immigrant Registration Program Pretext for Mass Detentions December 19, 2002 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON - In a development that confirms the American Civil Liberties Union's initial fears about a controversial immigrant fingerprinting and registration program, the Immigr

Samar Kaukab & ACLU Challenge Ethnic & Religious Discrimination

2002-01-18 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
"ACLU of Illinois Challenges Ethnic and Religious Bias in Strip Search of Muslim Woman at O'Hare International Airport," 16 Jan. 02, at <http://www.aclu.org/news/2002/n011602a.html>. -- Yoshie * Calendar of Events in Columbus: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/c

ACLU

2000-12-06 Thread Charles Brown
>From the website of the American Civil Liberties Union. To send a prepared letter to President Clinton and/or your Congressional representatives, check out: < http://www.aclu.org/cgi-bin/take_action2000.pl?GetDoc= 341&dir=aclu&redirect=/act> Impose A Moratorium on Federal Ex

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: ACLU

2000-08-07 Thread Michael Perelman
Already, people who espouse unpopular causes cannot advertise. What made the ACLU case reprehensible was the change in policy right after the infusion of funds from the industry. Doug Henwood wrote: > Michael Perelman wrote: > > >Justin, the ACLU is probably 90% correct (my estimat

Re: Re: Re: Re: ACLU

2000-08-07 Thread Doug Henwood
Michael Perelman wrote: >Justin, the ACLU is probably 90% correct (my estimate). I don't think that we >are aiming at it. The stand of the representative in Philadelphia >is terrible. >The tobacco case was abominable. Why? Suppose NORML or some other drug-law reform organiza

Re: Re: Re: Re: ACLU

2000-08-05 Thread JKSCHW
I have looked at this link and find the information in it disturbing. I will write the national ACLU about the matter. If you all are not ACLU members--and why not?--you should join and write too. You should know that, as with many affiliate-based groups with a national office, the NO does not

Re: Re: ACLU

2000-08-05 Thread JKSCHW
In a message dated 8/5/00 4:28:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << No. I am still in possession of the file with all the correspondence, including the defamatory letter. I stated unequivocally that we will never know whether the red-baiting had any influence and I tagged

Re: Re: ACLU

2000-08-05 Thread JKSCHW
In a message dated 8/5/00 3:59:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << We count on _you_ (= Justin Schwartz), but can we count on the ACLU in general? >So, it all depends on which faction within the ACLU has power in each chapter & national organization

Re: Re: Re: ACLU

2000-08-05 Thread Michael Perelman
Justin, the ACLU is probably 90% correct (my estimate). I don't think that we are aiming at it. The stand of the representative in Philadelphia is terrible. The tobacco case was abominable. http://www.tobacco.org/News/aclu11.96.html The above link gives some details about the abrupt chan

Re: ACLU

2000-08-05 Thread Timework Web
JKSCHW wrote, > The story below is pure innuendo. Maybe this person thought that > red-baiting would work. Maybe he was wrong. You have no idea. I note, > btw, that under no reading of any free speech right do you have any > claim on the charitable resources of a private group. No.

Re: ACLU

2000-08-05 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Justin says: >However, you do know for sure is that if the state passes a law penalizing >left speech, or the cops start harassing you for your political activity, the >people to call are the ACLU and the NLG, and they will be there, whether you >are a Stalinist, an anarchist, a r

ACLU

2000-08-05 Thread JKSCHW
. I haven't yet looked at the site Michael referred me to. I don't think the ACLU ought to be defending big tobacco's right to advertise, not least because its resources are very limited, and big tobacco can look out for itself. I do think that big tobacco ought to be allowed to

[PEN-L:5792] ACLU Needs Academics writing about labor law (fwd)

1996-08-22 Thread Nathan Newman
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 10:40:03 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Academics writing about labor law On behalf of the ACLU Taskforce on Civil Liberties in the Workplace, I am interested in finding academics who write and/or

[PEN-L:2853] CPSR Joins in ACLU Lawsuit (fwd)

1996-02-09 Thread D Shniad
> Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 23:28:32 -0800 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Audrie Krause) > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: CPSR Joins in ACLU Lawsuit > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > CPSR Joins in Challenging Communications Decency Act > > Computer Professionals for Socia