American Civil Liberties Union

  • Democracy Now! August 28, 2002

    YOUNG PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THE JUVENILE DEATH PENALTY/A DATABASE OF POTENTIAL CRIMINALS |24-year-old Toronto Patterson is set to die today at the hands of the State of Texas for a crime he is accused of committing when he was 17: we ll hear his story in his own words, and talk to the young people…

  • Urvashi Vaid

    Urvashi Vaid, one-time attorney with the ACLU National Prisoners Project, former director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, co-founder of the Boston Lesbian/Gay Political Alliance and the author of Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation, is considered one of the leading voices in the progressive LGBT movement. In this hour-long…

  • Democracy Now! January 11, 1999

    Essay on Impeachment , the Sentate and the Supreme Court; The Klan Rallies on Martin Luther King Day; Cruelty and Neglect in Russian Orphanages |(6 Minutes) Essay on Impeachment, the Senate and the Supreme Court, Amy Goodman (8 Minutes)The Klan Rallies on Martin Luther King Day A federal judge ruled that the Ku Klux Klan…

  • Democracy Now! November 12, 1998

    Progressive LA-Interview with Harold Meyerson; LA Police Watchdog Resigns; East Timor Massacre Anniversary |(14 Minutes) Progressive LA – Interview with Harold Meyerson As the gap between the city’s rich and poor continues to expand, progressives are re-grouping around pressing social issues such as immigration, labor rights and police brutality, and a new and very diverse…

  • ACLU documentary / produced by Elsa Knight Thompson.

    On the American Civil Liberties Union meeting in San Francisco to discuss the implications of the 1960 House on Un-American Activities Committee hearings.

  • The Wilkinson and Braden decisions / Albert Bendich.

    Albert Bendich, staff counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, speaks on the power and dangers of the House Un-American Actitities Committee and its support from the U.S. Supreme Court.|THE WILKINSON AND BRADEN DECISIONS / Albert Bendich. – Albert Bendich, staff counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, speaks on the poer and dangers of…