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Standing Up Against Injustice: We Honor the Courage of Gordon Hirabayashi

Summer Robinson, ACLU-WA Communications and Events Coordinator
Thursday, January 5th, 2012 at 1:08 pm
Gordon Hirabayashi was a senior at University of Washington when bombs fell at Pearl Harbor. Like 112,000 of his fellow Japanese Americans, he would be placed under curfew, ordered into internment, and finally jailed for defying those orders. Forty years later, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated his conviction. On Monday, Hirabayashi died at the age of 93. We here at the ACLU of Washington honor his memory. Read More »
 
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The King Hearings: McCarthyism 2.0

Arnold Jin
Friday, March 11th, 2011 at 11:01 am
As we reach almost a decade of anti-Muslim American sentiment in America since 9/11, some in our government continue to perpetuate false stereotypes about the Muslim American community. Read More »
 
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Mohamed, et al. v. Jeppesen Dataplan

The national ACLU brought suit on behalf of five men who were kidnapped and secretly transferred to U.S.-run prisons or foreign intelligence agencies overseas, where they were interrogated under torture. The lawsuit was dismissed in February 2008, and the ACLU is appealing that ruling. Read More »
 
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M. Akifur Rahman et al. v. Michael Chertoff et al.

A federal court has ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FBI to disclose whether 10 people who have been repeatedly stopped and questioned at border crossings are listed in a federal terrorist watchlist. The order came in a lawsuit filed by the ACLU of behalf of the 10 citizens, including a pharmacist from Edmonds, Washington, seeking an end to the abusive stops. Read More »
 
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ACLU to Provide Legal Help to Muslims and Arabs Caught Up in New Round of FBI Questioning

August 6, 2004
The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington announced today that it is offering free legal representation to anyone in the state who is approached by the FBI during its latest round of "dragnet" interviews of Arabs and Muslims. Read More »
 
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ACLU Stands Up For Photographer at Ballard Locks

July 30, 2004
The ACLU-WA is assisting Ian Spiers, a biracial community college student who was questioned and detained by local police and a Homeland Security agent for taking photographs at the Ballard Locks. Read More »
 
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Somali Merchants Finally Receive Compensation for Government Raid

July 22, 2004
After more than two years of negotiations by the ACLU, two Somali merchants finally are receiving compensation for losses they suffered in a raid by government agents. Read More »
 
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