The ACLU online team has put together an index to show how important the ACLU has been over its 90 years of defending the Constitution — and how many challenges we still have in front of us. We’ll be posting more of these factoids for the rest of the year:
Number of online messages ACLU activists sent to Congress and the Obama administration in 2009: 1,208,466
Number of students in the Pittsburgh school district that will finally receive comprehensive sex education after pressure from the ACLU to stop teaching an abstinence-only curriculum: 28,000 students in 66 schools
Year the ACLU first defended reproductive freedom: 1928
Number of schools where the ACLU has intervened after school officials tried to ban or treat gay-straight alliance clubs differently from other school clubs in the last five years: 36
Number of those schools that succeeded in banning or discriminating against gay-straight alliance clubs: 0
Miles of documents about the Bush torture program obtained through the ACLU’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuits: 20.5
Number of victims of the Bush torture program who have had their day in court: 0
Percent of our 2010 budget that the ACLU stands to lose as a result of losing our largest individual donor due to financial circumstances: 25
Number of days you have left to make a year-end donation to the ACLU: 3
We hope you’ll join us in defending our freedoms for the coming year. Donate today!
