ACLU - Salon.com http://dir.salon.com/topics/aclu/?source=rss&aim=aclu en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:03:00 PDT Big Think: ACLU president on the perils of government secrecy Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/03/24/video_strossen/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/03/24/video_strossen/index.html?source=rss Nadine Strossen discusses post-9/11 constraints on civil liberties and ACLU's nonpartisan role. ACLU takes on abstinence-only ed Carol Lloyd Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2007/04/26/aclu_abstinence/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2007/04/26/aclu_abstinence/index.html?source=rss Will the courts stop the federal funding of programs that give kids medically inaccurate information about sex? ACLU defeats COPA, again Joan Walsh Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/media/2007/03/22/copa/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/media/2007/03/22/copa/index.html?source=rss Another big victory for free speech on the Internet, and Salon. The spy who came in from the boardroom By Tim Shorrock Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/01/08/mcconnell/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/01/08/mcconnell/index.html?source=rss Why John Michael McConnell, a top executive at a private defense contractor, should not be allowed to run our nation's intelligence agencies. The government is reading your mail By Mark Benjamin Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/01/05/mail_cover/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/01/05/mail_cover/index.html?source=rss But that's nothing new -- a Bush signing statement reminds us how little we know about hush-hush postal-monitoring programs, and how vulnerable they are to abuse. Tracking sex offenders with GPS By Katharine Mieszkowski Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/12/19/offenders/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/12/19/offenders/index.html?source=rss Strict new laws call for sex offenders to be electronically monitored for life. Critics say the technology won't stop crimes but is fueling hysteria -- and is even counterproductive. Have you heard my rape joke? Chris Colin Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/11/10/colorado/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/11/10/colorado/index.html?source=rss A Colorado University sophomore keeps the ACLU in business. Turning back the clock on single-sex education Marisa Meltzer Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/10/25/education/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/10/25/education/index.html?source=rss The Department of Education retools Title IX, allowing more same-sex ed. Hunter-Gatherer Junior High Tracy Clark-Flory Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/08/10/sexsegregation/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/08/10/sexsegregation/index.html?source=rss The ACLU quashes a Louisiana school board's sex-segregation plans. U.S. agrees to release Abu Ghraib photos By Mark Benjamin and Michael Scherer Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/03/29/aclu_abu_ghraib/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/03/29/aclu_abu_ghraib/index.html?source=rss Citing Salon's publication, government abandons its fight to keep images of abuse secret. Judges grant most waivers to Florida's parental notification requirement Lynn Harris Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/01/18/florida_parental_notification/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/01/18/florida_parental_notification/index.html?source=rss For at least one legislator, that means the laws not working. Strange Bedfellows v. Bush and Cheney By Michael Scherer Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/01/18/aclu_lawsuit/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/01/18/aclu_lawsuit/index.html?source=rss A motley crew that includes Christopher Hitchens, Larry Diamond and Greenpeace is suing the NSA, claiming that Bush's wiretap program is inhibiting free speech. E.C. in the E.R.? Lynn Harris Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2005/11/23/raising_her_voice/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2005/11/23/raising_her_voice/index.html?source=rss The ACLU Web site adds real voices to the emergency contraception debate. How the secular humanist grinch didn't steal Christmas By Michelle Goldberg Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/11/21/christmas/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/11/21/christmas/index.html?source=rss The right-wing crusade against the liberal "war on Christmas" is great for rallying the troops. Too bad the war doesn't exist. The Pentagon's picture problems Tim Grieve Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/09/29/photos/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/09/29/photos/index.html?source=rss The Army calls off its investigation of the pictures-for-porn swap just as a federal judge says the government must release more photos from Abu Ghraib. Keeping America safer -- with science Page Rockwell Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/06/21/science/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/06/21/science/index.html?source=rss As more evidence surfaces that the Bush administration can't be bothered with scientific accuracy, the ACLU tries framing science as a national security issue. Still to blame By Joe Conason Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2005/05/27/detainee_abuse/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2005/05/27/detainee_abuse/index.html?source=rss Newly declassified files on detainee abuse include sworn statements by a Pentagon employee about a military interrogator who threw the Koran on the floor and "stepped on it" -- provoking detainees to riot. When left is right Mark Follman Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/03/23/patriot/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/03/23/patriot/index.html?source=rss From the Terri Schiavo case to expanded government powers in the war on terrorism, conservative libertarians are palling around an awful lot these days with the political left. The new Monkey Trial By Michelle Goldberg Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/01/10/evolution/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/01/10/evolution/index.html?source=rss By persuading the Dover, Pa., school board to teach creationism, Christian zealots have provoked a showdown over the status of not just evolutionary theory, but science itself. Protection -- or paranoia? By Justin Rood Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/08/06/paranoia/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/08/06/paranoia/index.html?source=rss Why is the Secret Service treating harmless professors and pacifist homeless advocates like they're members of al-Qaida? Resisting arrest By Gary Kamiya Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/freedom/2004/06/29/korematsu/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/freedom/2004/06/29/korematsu/index.html?source=rss Six decades before Guantanamo, Fred Korematsu refused to go quietly when the government tried to put him in a prison camp because of his race. Don't worry, be sexy By Scott Rosenberg Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/2004/03/03/supreme_court/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/2004/03/03/supreme_court/index.html?source=rss The government tells the Supreme Court that Web publishers should relax -- a Web censorship law only applies to the "worst" porn peddlers. But why should we trust it? Keeping dissent invisible By Dave Lindorff Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/10/16/secret_service/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/10/16/secret_service/index.html?source=rss How the Secret Service and the White House keep protesters safely out of Bush's sight -- and off TV. Grounding the flying nun By Dave Lindorff Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/07/25/no_fly/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/07/25/no_fly/index.html?source=rss Activists on the left and right -- including a 71-year-old Milwaukee nun and an art dealer who told other passengers that President Bush "is dumb as a rock" -- have long complained they were being hassled by airport security. After months of silence, the federal government says: It's true. Let us commence By Anne Lamott Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/lamott/2003/06/06/commencement/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/lamott/2003/06/06/commencement/index.html?source=rss At the Berkeley graduation I told the students that the secret to success was simple -- ignore your parents' expectations, give money to the ACLU, and find out the truth about who you are.