DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
Lawsuit filed against Trump's transgender military ban, Senator Warren opposes Israel Anti-Boycott Act, and China and Russia go further in restricting internet freedom. More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
The ACLU posts billboards of the First Amendment in Arabic and Spanish, Uganda tries to commit president's critic to a mental institution, and more. More
Court Dismisses PEN Challenge to NSA Internet Surveillance
A federal district court granted the government’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of a broad group of organizations challenging the… More
Wikipedia’s Lawsuit Against NSA Internet Vacuum Has First Day in Court
A judge is weighing whether to kill the case against tapping the Internet's backbone. More
Something to Hide – Writers and Artists Against the Surveillance State
Modeled on a series of events first organized by the ACLU and PEN American Center, the “Something to Hide” program counters the oft-heard slogan that “if you have nothing… More
The ACLU and Wikipedia are Suing the NSA
Every day, millions of communications move in and out of the country, swept up and collected along the way by the NSA’s all-reaching surveillance dragnet. Every week, we learn… More
The ACLU sues the NSA over mass Internet ‘upstream’ surveillance
Tuesday morning, in U.S. District Court in Maryland, the American Civil Liberties Union, on behalf of organizations including the Wikimedia Foundation, PEN American Center, Amnesty International and Human Rights… More
ACLU: Snowden proved NSA internet spying harms Americans
The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups sued the National Security Agency and the Justice Department on Tuesday, challenging the government's practice of collecting personal information from vast… More
Wikimedia joins civil rights groups in lawsuit against NSA internet spying
The Wikimedia Foundation, Amnesty International and a host of civil rights groups sued the National Security Agency and the US Department of Justice on Tuesday challenging the mass surveillance… More
Watch: Guantánamo Diary – An Evening of Reading and Conversation
Molly Crabapple, Justin Vivian Bond, John Guare, Ayana Mathis, Eileen Myles, Dina Salah Amer, Andrew Solomon, and Lili Taylor took the stage read from Mohamadou Ould Slahi's Guantánamo Diary.… More
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After Stonewall, librarians were the first profession to organize for gay rights. Meet the pioneer, Michael McConnell, who led the charge - and now fears for his legacy. https://www.the74million.org/article/how-libraries-came-to-be-sanctuaries-for-lgbtq-kids/
Pro-Russian TV and websites are being promoted inside occupied parts of Ukraine amid a wave of media repression. https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-russia-takes-tv-and-websites-offline-as-part-of-media-blackout-in-occupied-territories-12634539
While the pandemic has dealt a blow to the entire journalism industry — more than 100 local newsrooms have closed since — it’s been especially tough on small, ethnic news outlets that may not have the resources to stay afloat. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/ethnic-media-was-devastated-covid-now-publishers-are-struggling-self-f-rcna31718
