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December 15, 2022
2022 Wins With David Cole
As we near the end of the year, we are bringing you an episode of reflection. A lot has happened in the world, in our country and in our work at the ACLU. While we have weathered devastating losses like the overturn of Roe v. Wade this past summer, there...
2022 Wins With David Cole As we near the end of the year, we are bringing you an episode of reflection. A lot has happened in the world, in our country and in our work at the ACLU. While we...
September 15, 2022
How to Fight Your School's Sexist Dress Code
It’s back to school season! And, this week we are digging into the wild world of dress codes. Clothes, like most things, have the power we give them. Sometimes they are a way to craft or express identity and sometimes they are just pieces of fabric stitched together to help...
How to Fight Your School's Sexist Dress Code September 15, 2022
How to Fight Your School's Sexist Dress Code
How to Fight Your School's Sexist Dress CodeIt’s back to school season! And, this week we are digging into the wild world of dress codes. Clothes, like most things, have the power we give them. Sometimes they are a way to craft...
September 8, 2022
This Podcast Could Be Banned in Florida Schools
It’s September and we’re back! Did you miss us? We missed you. So happy to be back and bringing you a very timely episode for the back to school season. In August, the ACLU along with partner organizations, filed a challenge to Florida's Stop W.O.K.E. Act, a censorship law which...
This Podcast Could Be Banned in Florida Schools September 8, 2022
This Podcast Could Be Banned in Florida Schools
This Podcast Could Be Banned in Florida SchoolsIt’s September and we’re back! Did you miss us? We missed you. So happy to be back and bringing you a very timely episode for the back to school season. In August, the ACLU along...
July 14, 2022
Roe's Overturn Threatens All Reproductive Care
It was a few days after the overturn of Roe v. Wade when a doctor in Louisiana prescribed a medication to make the insertion of an IUD, a form of birth control, less painful for a patient. The medication has several uses. One of them is to act as the...
Roe's Overturn Threatens All Reproductive Care July 14, 2022
Roe's Overturn Threatens All Reproductive Care
Roe's Overturn Threatens All Reproductive CareIt was a few days after the overturn of Roe v. Wade when a doctor in Louisiana prescribed a medication to make the insertion of an IUD, a form of birth control, less painful for...
July 7, 2022
The State of Our Democracy With Anthony Romero
It’s a precarious time for American democracy. This year, the Supreme Court term resulted in a number of concerning opinions that rollback civil rights and civil liberties across many facets of American life, most notably the decision in the Dobbs case that overturned the constitutional right to an abortion. At...
The State of Our Democracy With Anthony Romero July 7, 2022
The State of Our Democracy With Anthony Romero
The State of Our Democracy With Anthony RomeroIt’s a precarious time for American democracy. This year, the Supreme Court term resulted in a number of concerning opinions that rollback civil rights and civil liberties across many facets of American life, most notably...
June 24, 2022
Post Roe: The Supreme Court Won’t Stop at Abortion
In a landmark decision in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court has voted to overturn both Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, eliminating a 50-year precedent and the constitutional right to an abortion. We expect half of the states across the country...
Post Roe: The Supreme Court Won’t Stop at Abortion June 24, 2022
Post Roe: The Supreme Court Won’t Stop at Abortion
Post Roe: The Supreme Court Won’t Stop at AbortionIn a landmark decision in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court has voted to overturn both Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, eliminating a 50-year precedent and...
May 19, 2022
The Impact of Intergenerational Immigrant Trauma
May marks Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month and Mental Health Awareness Month. To mark the importance of this month and how it intersects our work at the ACLU, we are bringing you this conversation with Malaysian American award-winning writer and audio producer, Stephanie Foo. Stephanie is the author of...
The Impact of Intergenerational Immigrant Trauma May 19, 2022
The Impact of Intergenerational Immigrant Trauma
The Impact of Intergenerational Immigrant TraumaMay marks Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month and Mental Health Awareness Month. To mark the importance of this month and how it intersects our work at the ACLU, we are bringing you this conversation...
April 28, 2022
Pain Relief Is a Civil Right
For years now, pain has been the leading cause of disability worldwide, affecting more than 50 million Americans annually. This isn’t the kind of pain you endure when you trip onto the pavement, scab, bruise and heal. It’s the persistent gnawing, aching, throbbing that happens over a long period of...
Pain Relief Is a Civil Right For years now, pain has been the leading cause of disability worldwide, affecting more than 50 million Americans annually. This isn’t the kind of pain you endure when you trip onto the pavement, scab, bruise...
April 7, 2022
“Sexual Justice” Doesn’t Have to Mean Criminal Justice
April marks Sexual Assault Awareness Month and with that, we are bringing you a conversation today about Title IX. One of the protections against sexual assault within our education system and in our workplaces. In May of 2020, then Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos gutted Title IX protections for schools,...
“Sexual Justice” Doesn’t Have to Mean Criminal Justice April 7, 2022
“Sexual Justice” Doesn’t Have to Mean Criminal Justice
“Sexual Justice” Doesn’t Have to Mean Criminal JusticeApril marks Sexual Assault Awareness Month and with that, we are bringing you a conversation today about Title IX. One of the protections against sexual assault within our education system and in our workplaces. In...
March 31, 2022
Affirmative Action Is the Floor, Not the Ceiling
For over half a century, Affirmative Action has woven its way into the fabric of our society through nondiscrimination policies and initiatives aimed at establishing equal opportunity for women, people of color, and other minorities across schools and the workplace. Over the years, courts and colleges have repeatedly clashed over...
Affirmative Action Is the Floor, Not the Ceiling March 31, 2022
Affirmative Action Is the Floor, Not the Ceiling
Affirmative Action Is the Floor, Not the CeilingFor over half a century, Affirmative Action has woven its way into the fabric of our society through nondiscrimination policies and initiatives aimed at establishing equal opportunity for women, people of color, and other minorities...