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May 8, 2024
Special Edition: What We're Seeing at Campus Anti-War Protests
On April 17, students at Columbia University set up an encampment to show support for Palestinians and demand the university divest from its business related to or within Israel as a means of anti-war protest. In the weeks since its inception, the protest movement has spread, with encampments set up...
Special Edition: What We're Seeing at Campus Anti-War Protests![Pro-Palestinian supporters set up a protest encampment on the campus of Columbia University in New York as seen on April 22, 2024](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2024/05/palestine-encampments-s-600x600.jpg)
May 8, 2024
Special Edition: What We're Seeing at Campus Anti-War Protests
Special Edition: What We're Seeing at Campus Anti-War ProtestsOn April 17, students at Columbia University set up an encampment to show support for Palestinians and demand the university divest from its business related to or within Israel as a means of anti-war protest....
May 2, 2024
Answering Your Student Speech Questions
With the rise of anti-war protests and encampments taking place on college campuses across the country, we are sharing an episode from a couple of years ago that addresses some questions related to free speech in an education setting. In this episode, our resident free speech expert Ben Wizner answers...
Answering Your Student Speech Questions![Austin, TX, USA - April 25, 2024: University of Texas students protest Israel's war in Gaza and the arrest of students at a demonstration the previous day at a rally on campus.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2024/05/campus-protest-speech-s-600x600.jpg)
With the rise of anti-war protests and encampments taking place on college campuses across the country, we are sharing an episode from a couple of years ago that addresses some questions related to free speech...
April 24, 2024
Special Edition: Emergency Abortion Care at SCOTUS
Today, on April 24, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case that will determine the future of emergency abortion care. At issue in the case of Idaho v. United States is whether or not doctors in states where abortion is banned have to continue to deny abortion...
Special Edition: Emergency Abortion Care at SCOTUS![Washington, DC/United States - May 21, 2019: Pro-life abortion protest on the steps of the Supreme Court after states sought to pass restrictive "heart beat" abortion laws.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2024/04/EMTALA-s-600x600.jpg)
April 24, 2024
Special Edition: Emergency Abortion Care at SCOTUS
Special Edition: Emergency Abortion Care at SCOTUSToday, on April 24, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case that will determine the future of emergency abortion care. At issue in the case of Idaho v. United States is whether...
April 18, 2024
SCOTUS Will Decide If Homelessness Can be Punished
On April 22, the Supreme Court will hear the case of Johnson v. Grants Pass, the most significant court case about the rights of people experiencing homelessness in decades. At its core, Grants Pass will decide whether cities are allowed to punish people for things like sleeping outside with a...
SCOTUS Will Decide If Homelessness Can be Punished![Activists and people experiencing homelessness gather near tents housing the homeless at an encampment in Echo Lake Park as the city makes plans to evict all the parks encampments in Los Angeles, March 24, 2021.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2024/04/housing-protest-s-600x600.jpg)
April 18, 2024
SCOTUS Will Decide If Homelessness Can be Punished
SCOTUS Will Decide If Homelessness Can be PunishedOn April 22, the Supreme Court will hear the case of Johnson v. Grants Pass, the most significant court case about the rights of people experiencing homelessness in decades. At its core, Grants Pass will...
April 11, 2024
Live from Brooklyn Public Library: The Power of Poetry and Magical Thinking
From the ACLU, this is At Liberty. I'm Kendall Ciesemier, your host. A month ago, we visited one of our favorite spots, the library. You know, at the ACLU, we love a good library. So much so that we even spent a recent Saturday night at the Brooklyn Public Library,...
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April 11, 2024
Live from Brooklyn Public Library: The Power of Poetry and Magical Thinking
Live from Brooklyn Public Library: The Power of Poetry and Magical ThinkingFrom the ACLU, this is At Liberty. I'm Kendall Ciesemier, your host. A month ago, we visited one of our favorite spots, the library. You know, at the ACLU, we love a good library. So...
April 4, 2024
The Most Extreme Anti-Immigration Bill We've Seen
Last December, Texas lawmakers passed Senate Bill 4, one of the most extreme pieces of anti-immigrant legislation to emerge from any state legislature. Under S.B. 4, local and state law enforcement can arrest people they suspect to have entered Texas without federal authorization. It also permits Texas judges, who are...
The Most Extreme Anti-Immigration Bill We've Seen![Austin, Texas, USA - May 29, 2017: A Hispanic mother and her daughter protest SB 4, an anti-Sanctuary Cities immigration law, outside the Capitol.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2024/04/sb4-update-s-600x600.jpg)
April 4, 2024
The Most Extreme Anti-Immigration Bill We've Seen
The Most Extreme Anti-Immigration Bill We've SeenLast December, Texas lawmakers passed Senate Bill 4, one of the most extreme pieces of anti-immigrant legislation to emerge from any state legislature. Under S.B. 4, local and state law enforcement can arrest people they...
March 28, 2024
Special Edition: Abortion Is Back at the Supreme Court
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that will determine if nationwide restrictions are imposed on access to mifepristone, a safe medication used in more than half of all U.S. abortions, and for miscarriage treatment. What the court decides later this year will have significant implications...
Special Edition: Abortion Is Back at the Supreme Court![a sign saying "leave my mifepristone alone!" is foregrounded with protesters in front of the supreme court.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2024/03/mife-arguments-s-600x600.jpg)
March 28, 2024
Special Edition: Abortion Is Back at the Supreme Court
Special Edition: Abortion Is Back at the Supreme CourtOn Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that will determine if nationwide restrictions are imposed on access to mifepristone, a safe medication used in more than half of all U.S. abortions,...
March 21, 2024
In 'Problemista,' Julio Torres Crafts an Imaginative Immigration Story
The United States is home to the largest immigrant population in the world, with hundreds of thousands more seeking asylum and citizenship. America would not be what it is today if not for immigration and the contributions of millions of those who have come here, bolstering the population, strengthening the...
In 'Problemista,' Julio Torres Crafts an Imaginative Immigration Story![Still of Julio Torres as Alejandro Martinez in the movie Problemista.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2024/03/julio-problemista-s-600x600.jpg)
March 21, 2024
In 'Problemista,' Julio Torres Crafts an Imaginative Immigration Story
In 'Problemista,' Julio Torres Crafts an Imaginative Immigration StoryThe United States is home to the largest immigrant population in the world, with hundreds of thousands more seeking asylum and citizenship. America would not be what it is today if not for immigration and...
March 14, 2024
This Economic Policy Could Break the Poverty Cycle
The “American dream” has long been regarded as the pinnacle of success, rewarded to all who display hard work and pick themselves up by their bootstraps when life knocks them down. This might be our culture’s prevailing narrative, but it actually rarely bears out this way. The truth is that...
This Economic Policy Could Break the Poverty Cycle![Black father and daughter saving money to piggy bank](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2024/03/generational-wealth-s-600x600.jpg)
March 14, 2024
This Economic Policy Could Break the Poverty Cycle
This Economic Policy Could Break the Poverty CycleThe “American dream” has long been regarded as the pinnacle of success, rewarded to all who display hard work and pick themselves up by their bootstraps when life knocks them down. This might be our...
March 7, 2024
Biden's Border Politics Won't Fix Our Immigration System
At the end of 2023, migrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border hit a record high of 250,000, with a surge of individuals and families entering cities like Chicago, Denver, New York, Houston, and Los Angeles. Despite this, politicians and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle continue to struggle to...
Biden's Border Politics Won't Fix Our Immigration System![WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 1, 2021: Marchers demanding the Biden administration make progress on immigration reform, head to a rally near the US Capitol. March began at Black Lives Matter Plaza.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2024/03/biden-border-policy-s-600x600.jpg)
March 7, 2024
Biden's Border Politics Won't Fix Our Immigration System
Biden's Border Politics Won't Fix Our Immigration SystemAt the end of 2023, migrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border hit a record high of 250,000, with a surge of individuals and families entering cities like Chicago, Denver, New York, Houston, and Los Angeles....