Get ready for No Kings Day protests on June 14: #ACLU Know Your #Rights Training: Get Ready for June 14
#protest #demonstration #nokings #Democracy #autocracy
https://act.aclu.org/a/2025-kyr-training-2.
Federal Judge Temporarily Enjoins Federal Prison Officials from Withholding #genderaffirminghealthcare for U.S. Incarncerated #TransPeople
#TransAndNonbinaryRigtsAreHumanRights 
Case: Kingdom v. Trump
#USLaw #law #LGBTQIAplus #f\FascistUSA
The #tRump Administration's actions are the biggest threat to freedom of speech since the Red Scare. If the government can come after one of us for speech the administration disagrees with, they can - and will - come after any of us. Join the #ACLU and tell Congress to defend our right to free speech. Dissent Is Not Grounds For #Deportation.
#freespeech #uspol #immigration
https://action.aclu.org/send-message/dissent-not-grounds-deportation
From the ACLU:
Know Your Rights Training: Get Ready for June 14
WHAT: June Know Your Rights Training
WHEN: Tuesday, June 10, 7 PM ET
WHERE: On Zoom - RSVP for the link!
Notice of Accessibility: The ACLU strives to create inclusive and accessible events that enable all individuals to fully engage with its programming. For this event, we are providing ASL and live closed-captioning services.
Full details here:
The #Souderton Area School District has dropped its ban on two parents and a former student from attending school board meetings following an #ACLU-PA lawsuit contending that the ban was a violation of the First Amendment. https://www.aclupa.org/en/press-releases/souderton-area-school-district-lifts-board-meeting-ban-parents-and-former-student #MontCoPa #pennsylvania #publicSchools #freespeech #billformica
Today in Labor History June 2, 1919: Anarchist Galleanists carried out a series of 9 coordinated bombings across the Eastern United States. They damaged the homes of U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, as well as then Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt. They also targeted a number of judges. None of the targeted men died, although a night watchman, a former editor of the Galleanist publication “Cronaca Sovversiva,” did accidentally get killed. The bombs were delivered in packages that included the following note: “War, Class war, and you were the first to wage it under the cover of the powerful institutions you call order, in the darkness of your laws. There will have to be bloodshed; we will not dodge; there will have to be murder: we will kill, because it is necessary; there will have to be destruction; we will destroy to rid the world of your tyrannical institutions.”
The response by Palmer included mass illegal search and seizures, unwarranted arrests and the deportation of several hundred suspected radicals and anarchists. He also carried the nationwide witch hunts known as the Palmer raids in November 1919 and January 1920, arresting 10,000 anarchists, communists, and labor leaders, imprisoning 3,500, and deporting 556, including Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), was founded in response to the raid, by IWW organizer Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Helen Keller, and others.
Today in Labor History June 1, 1916: The predominantly immigrant iron miners of the Mesabi Range, Minnesota, participated in a seemingly spontaneous strike in response to overpriced housing and goods, long hours and poor pay. The group was led by radical Finns who quickly drew the attention and aid of the IWW. Wobbly organizers, including Carlo Tresca, Joe Schmidt, Frank Little, and later Joe Ettor and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, came to help local strike leaders draw up a list of demands which included an 8-hour day, timed from when workers entered the mine until they were outside; a pay-scale based upon the actual hours worked; paydays twice monthly; immediate back-pay for hours worked upon severance; abolition of the Saturday night shift; abolition of the hated contract mining system. In the Contract Mining system, the bosses hired and paid “skilled” miners to do most of the mining. The contract miners then had to hire their own laborers and pay them out of their meagre wages. The contract miners were often native-born people, while the laborers were usually immigrants. This created a racialized two-tiered system that divided the workers and made it harder to organize. The bosses would routinely offer the contract miners a small concession to get them back to work, while offering the even more poorly paid laborers nothing, destroying their solidarity and ending the strike. Flynn would later go on to cofound the American Civil Liberties Union. Tresca would go on to became a leading organizer against both fascism and Stalinism. He was assassinated in 1943, possibly on orders of the Genovese crime family, possibly on orders of Stalin, and possibly Italian fascists. Frank Little, who was Native American, was later murdered by vigilantes during a strike in Butte. You can read my biography of Frank Little here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/05/frank-little/
It's time! The #ACLU fundraiser featuring story collections from R. Cooper & Geneva Vand & me (KL Noone) is officially open! Until 11pm tomorrow night or until we sell out - whichever comes first! All proceeds to the ACLU!
#charity #romance #lgbtq
https://app.galabid.com/doingsomegood2/items
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1942, #FredKorematsu was arrested. He had resisted FDR's #ExecutiveOrder9066, which sent Japanese-Americans to #ConcentrationCamps. #ACLU backed him in a trial that upheld the legality of these racist camps. SCOTUS finally criticized the precedent in 2018.
The #SupremeCourt Cases to Watch
The Supreme Court’s docket this term includes many of the complex issues American society is currently facing, including: #immigration , #freespeech , religious liberty , #LGBTQ #rights and #voting rights.
The #ACLU has served as counsel or filed friend-of-the-court briefs in all of the cases addressing these hot-button issues.
#scotus #religiousliberty
https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/the-supreme-court-cases-to-watch
If I have to see all the crazy right-wing bullshit my colleagues like and support on #LinkedIn, I’m going to start flooding their feeds with my likes and reshares of #NPR, #PBS, #AFLCIO, #NAACP, #ACLU, #UndueMedicalDebt, #AmericanLibraryAssociation, #Wikipedia, the #AssociatedPress, #WorldCentralKitchen, etc.
SOMEONE has to sneak some goddamn decency and sanity into their miserable lives.
The House of Representatives has passed a reconciliation bill that includes massive cuts to #Medicaid and will take #healthcare services away from millions of people, including people with disabilities. The bill now heads to the Senate, where we have another chance to stop it. We must take action now. Send a message to your Senators here:
#ACLU #uspol
https://action.aclu.org/send-message/congress-save-medicaid-now
#ICE detention has long been known for its abuse and inefficiency. The atrocities exposed during Trump's administration were only the most recent manifestations of a fundamentally cruel, inhumane, and clearly unnecessary system.
I just joined the #ACLU in sending a message to #Congress, urging them to end the misguided pursuit of new detention contracts and shut down ICE’s system of mass detention now.
Will you join me?
https://action.aclu.org/send-message/shut-down-ice-detention-machine
Wells residents split on town's decision to pause agreement with ICE
Brad Rogers,WGME
Thu, May 22nd 2025
WELLS (WGME) -- "This week, the Wells Police Department decided to freeze its partnership with ICE.
"The chief says it's in part because of a bill before the state legislature that would ban local police from working directly with ICE.
"The Wells Police Department is the only known department in Maine to sign a contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, better known as ICE.
"But the police chief says they never intended to arrest immigrants.
" 'I'd like to reiterate that at no point was there ever any intent on doing proactive immigration enforcement,' Wells Police Chief Jo-Ann Putnam said.
"The now-frozen agreement set off alarms among Wells residents and seasonal businesses that rely on young people with visas to fill summer jobs, including those from Central and South America.
"CBS13 spoke with a young Venezuelan woman who is working in Wells on an H-2B visa. She says even though she's here legally, she doesn't like the idea of Wells police working with ICE agents.
"Neither does Judy Pettinga.
"The Wells Beach store owner says all this does is frighten foreign workers who are here legally."
[...]
"A bill in Augusta would ban local law enforcement from working with ICE.
"#ACLU of Maine told the judiciary committee, 'The Trump administration is terrorizing immigrants and those perceived to be immigrants, regardless of their legal status.' "
#ResistICE #MaineResists #Gestapo
#Authoritarianism #AuthoritarianRule #ICERaids #ICESucks #USPol #MainePol #MaineNews #ImmigrantRights #HumanRightsViolations #HumanDecency
#ACLU Town Hall with Senator Cory Booker today, May 22, 4pm ET / 1pm PT, a virtual Town Hall to discuss the ongoing battle to defend our democracy in the face of President Trump's constant attacks on civil liberties. (This link will direct you to a third party site, YouTube.com.)
#CoryBooker #civilrights #democracy
https://www.youtube.com/live/fqhA_9sh7u0
Today in Labor History May 21, 1935: Jane Addams died. Addams was a peace activist, sociologist and author. She was a co-founder of the ACLU and a leader in the history of social work and women’s suffrage. In 1931, she became the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1889, along with her lover, Ellen Gates Starr, she co-founded Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago. Eventually, the house became home to 25 women and was visited weekly by around 2,000 others. It became a center for research, study and debate. Members were bound by their commitment to the labor and suffrage movements. The facilities included a doctor to provide medical treatment for poor families, gym, adult night school and a girls’ club. The adult night school became a model for the continuing education classes that occur today.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #JaneAddams #nobelprize #feminism #lgbtq #peace #author #writer #books #aclu #hullhouse @bookstadon
#USA 
The #Trump administration just filed charges against #NewJersey Congresswoman LaMonica #McIver – 11 days after the wrongful arrest of #Newark Mayor #RasBaraka. Both were attempting to investigate conditions at an #ICE detention facility.
The #ACLU demands that the charges against Congresswoman McIver are dropped, and we implore her fellow members of the #Congress to call for the same.
https://action.aclu.org/send-message/stop-abuse-power-stop-unfounded-arrests-public-officials
