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Rauner Signs Broadly Supported Civil Forfeiture Protections Into Law
Date: September 23, 2017 · Category: Police Accountability, StoriesUS House Passes Measure Blocking Justice Department’s Resumption of Civil Forfeiture Loophole
Date: September 19, 2017 · Category: Police Accountability, StoriesActivists Prepare to Stage Massive Push for Net Neutrality in Washington DC
Date: September 19, 2017 · Category: StoriesNew Security Features in iOS 11 Will Reinforce Digital Fourth and Fifth Amendment Protections
Date: September 19, 2017 · Category: Stories, SurveillanceAnnouncement: CCDBR Website is Now Encrypted!
Date: September 1, 2017 · Category: StoriesChicago Mayor and State Attorney General Jointly Seek Court Enforcement of CPD Reform
Date: September 1, 2017 · Category: Police Accountability, StoriesTrump Resumes Program to Arm Police with Military Weapons [UPDATED]
Date: September 1, 2017 · Category: Police Accountability, StoriesOpinion: Consistent, and Meaningful, Defense of First Amendment Fee Expression Must Include Even White Supremacists
Date: August 19, 2017 · Category: StoriesUS Justice Department Compels Anti-Trump Protest Site to Turn Over Data on Over A Million Visitors [UPDATED]
Date: August 16, 2017 · Category: COINTELPRO 2.0, Stories, SurveillanceForthcoming Documentary Sheds New Light on FBI Surveillance on Americans Through COINTELPRO
Date: August 11, 2017 · Category: COINTELPRO 2.0, Stories, Surveillance
Invisible Institute Sheds Light on Youth/Police Relations in Chicago
Date: April 22, 2015 · Category: Police Accountability, Police Accountability Videos, Stories, VideosChicago Citizens, Lawyers Gather Outside Mayor Emanuel’s Office to Call for CPD Reforms
Date: March 31, 2015 · Category: Police Accountability, Police Accountability Videos, Prisoners, Prisoners, VideosSolitary Confinement Coming to Federal Supermax Prison at Thomson
Date: March 8, 2015 · Category: Prisoners, Prisoners, Torture, Torture Videos, Videos“Prison labor booms in US as low-cost inmates bring billions” @ Russia Today
Date: December 12, 2012 · Category: Stories, VideosWatch Panels from 12/1 ACLU:ENGAGE Conference Online!
Date: December 6, 2012 · Category: Stories, Videos
Events
Thu
Jun. 29
Then They Came for Me: Incarceration of Japanese Americans During WWII and the Demise of Civil Liberties
All Day
Alphawood Gallery
Tue
Sep. 26
Glenn Greenwald and Moustafa Bayoumi: Islamophobia and Surveillance in the Age of Trump
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
Sat
Sep. 30
8th Day Center Gathering of Gratitude
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Unitarian Church of Evanston