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Pass the #SaferNYAct
Please take action today by asking your state legislators to pass the #SaferNYAct package. That’s five bills that together will improve police accountability and transparency across the state.
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Tell Congress: No to Face Recognition Technology for Police
Tell your Senators and Representative: Support an immediate moratorium on police and immigration enforcement use of face recognition technology.
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Urgent Action Needed to Protect Free Speech in Texas!
The bill would enhance penalties for civil disobedience at pipelines and other so-called "critical infrastructure" sites. The bill is being promoted by gas and oil companies and the intent is to silence activism against the fossil fuel industry and other polluters.
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Urgent Action Needed to Protect Free Speech & Assembly in Ohio!
Tell your Representative to vote NO on SB33
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Urgent Action Needed to Protect Free Speech & Assembly in Missouri!
Missouri “lawmakers should remember that their first responsibility is to the U.S. Constitution, not Big Oil or other energy interests that are trying to tamp down criticism.” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
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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