Feature Stories
Case of Tortured U.S. Citizen Tests Obama Administration on Human Rights
Tuesday, June 2, 2009 — Ahilan Arulanantham, ACLU/SC Director of Immigrants' Rights & National Security, discusses the upcoming trial of Naji Hamdan. read more
Ramona Ripston Rallies For Employee Free Choice Act
Thursday, May 7, 2009 — ACLU/SC Executive Director Ramona Ripston speaks at the closing ceremony of a 24-hour vigil for worker rights in downtown Los Angeles. read more
American Citizen Held Abroad Needs Your Help
Friday, April 10, 2009 — Act now to help win the release of an American held and tortured in the United Arab Emirates, and urge your friends to do the same! read more
Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Religious Display Case
Monday, February 23, 2009 — Judges should affirm that large cross in the midst of Mojave National Preserve violates First Amendment, ACLU Says. read more
Office Space for Lease at the ACLU Building
Monday, February 2, 2009 — The ACLU of Southern California has 3,000 square feet of office space available at its headquarters in downtown Los Angeles. read more
U.S. Complicit in American’s Detention and Torture in the U.A.E.
Friday, December 12, 2008 — Ahilan Arulanantham, director of immigrant rights and national security cases for the ACLU/SC, discusses the latest victim of 'proxy detention'. read more
"Our Work is Not Done."
Tuesday, December 9, 2008 — ACLU of Southern California Executive Director Ramona Ripston's keynote for the 2008 Bill of Rights Dinner. read more
ACLU/SC Urges Los Angeles County to Join Effort To Overturn Prop. 8
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 — Catherine Lhamon, the Racial Justice Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, today urged the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to file suit or join an existing lawsuit to overturn Proposition 8. read more
Restore Your Right To Vote!
Thursday, October 9, 2008 — The ACLU/SC has launched a public education campaign to fight misinformation about the rights people with felony convictions have to vote. read more
ACLU/SC Attorney Leads Discussion At Film Screening
Thursday, September 18, 2008 — The director of immigrants’ rights and national security at the ACLU/SC has been involved with several high-profile cases. read more
"And still we let it continue."
Wednesday, July 2, 2008 — Eric Greene, the ACLU/SC's point person in our efforts to abolish the death penalty, gives his personal response to a recent state report detailing California's broken system of death. read more
Marriage Equality in California. Now what?
Friday, May 16, 2008 — Now that the reality of this victory for freedom to marry has settled in, there are questions to be answered. The coalition has put together answers to 21 of the most frequently asked questions about this historic ruling by the California Supreme Court. read more
We Did It! Freedom To Marry! Now, Help Us Secure This Victory!
Thursday, May 15, 2008 — On May 15, 2008 the California Supreme Court ruled that the state may no longer exclude same-sex couples from civil marriage. Brought on behalf of twelve same-sex couples, it charged that barring same-sex couples from marriage violates the state constitut read more
Man Takes Wife's Surname - Finally
Monday, May 5, 2008 — Today, the California man who tried for two years to take his wife's surname as his own got a new driver’s license that made it official. read more
Criminal Justice
Report: Racial Profiling and the LAPD: Reform & Resistance
Death Penalty Abolition
Hundreds Speak In First-Ever Public Hearing On California’s Death Penalty
Economic Justice
Better Treatment For Disabled Homeless In Laguna Beach
Educational Equality
Get Help Fixing California's Broken Classrooms
Immigrant Rights
Court: Special Order 40 Stands
Jails Project
Jails Project Helps LA County Inmates and Families
LGBT Equality
Religious Liberty
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