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Tell Congress: Don’t Increase Funding To Terrorize Immigrants and Silence Dissent!
CBP and ICE must urgently be reined in -- and that starts by halting additional taxpayer dollars funding their deadly efforts at the border or their repressive efforts in our streets.
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Tell Congress to Defend Our Right to Protest From Armed Federal Thugs
There is no easy solution to Trump’s determination to turn our cities into occupied zones. Tell your Senators to support the Wyden/Merkley amendment.
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Facial Recognition & Biometric Technology Moratorium Act
Studies have shown that facial recognition technology is more prone to misidentify people of color than white people. That’s why Congress needs to pass the “Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act.
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Tell Congress To Restore The Right Hold Police Accountable!
Tell Congress To Restore The Right Hold Police Accountable!
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Tell Congress Public Health Must Come Before Detention!
We cannot fight this pandemic if we are simultaneously caging people, effectively encouraging community spread of the virus. Congress must pass the FIRST Act now.
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Start a Local Campaign
We have developed the following local campaigns, which allow individual municipalities to do what the federal government will not: protect law-abiding Americans’ liberty and privacy, and hold accountable government officials complicit in torture.
- Local Civil Rights Restoration (LCRR) campaigns focus on ending local police participation in warrantless surveillance and profiling based on race, religion, or political viewpoint
- Campaigns to restore due process and the right to trial work to end the indefinite military detention powers authorized by the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012
- Torture-free zone campaigns give local communities a voice to call for executive officials who authorized torture to be held accountable for their crimes