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Dan "We the Media" Gillmor has a fascinating editorial up today, "Helping the Almost-Journalists Do Journalism" about the "journalistic" work that organizations like the ACLU are doing in covering stories like the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, and how they're filling a gap left by the traditional press, whose reportage has trailed ACLU's work. He proposes that these organizations can be turned into actual journalistic orgs with the addition of a little bit of journo practice. They’re falling short today in several areas, notably the one that comes hardest to advocates: fairness. This is a broad and somewhat fuzzy word. But it means, in general, that you a) listen hard to people who disagree with you; b) hunt for facts and data that are contrary to your own stand; and c) reflect disagreements and nuances in what you tell the rest of us. Advocacy journalism has a long and honorable history. But the best in this arena have always acknowledged the disagreements and nuances, and they’ve been fair in reflecting opposing or orthogonal views and ideas. By doing so, they can strengthen their own arguments in the end. At the very least they are clearer, if not absolutely clear, on the other sides’ arguments, however weak. (That’s sides, not side; there are almost never only two sides to anything.) Of course, transparency is essential in this process, and for the most part we get it from advocacy groups. The one we can’t trust are the ones w ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 7 hours ago
News-Medical.Net Jul 23 2008 9:08PM GMT ... Source: www.aclu.org --- 4 hours ago
NEW ORLEANS - Louisiana's lawmakers stood up for democracy when they passed, and Gov. Bobby Jindal signed, a new law requiring the Department of Public Safety and Corrections to notify people leaving its supervision about how to regain their voting rights. The law, Act No. 604, also requires the Department to provide these individuals with voter registration applications. ... Source: www.enewscourier.com --- 1 day ago
After serving eight months behind bars for a conviction of receiving stolen property, Annette McWashington Pruitt was excited about the prospect of being able to vote again. ... Source: southernstudies.org --- 20 hours ago
The ACLU sued Alabama elections officials this week over an overly expansive policy disenfranchising felons. According to the New York Times : Like virtually all states, Alabama restricts the rights of many felons to vote, but in Monday’s suit the group contends the state is going beyond even its own laws. People convicted of nonviolent offenses like income tax evasion or forgery are at risk of being turned away by voter registrars in Alabama, the ACLU says. Alabama bars felons from voting only if they've been convicted of a crime of “moral turpitude.” According to the ACLU, the state legislature defined the phrase to refer to specific crimes: murder, rape, sodomy, sexual abuse, incest, sexual torture and nine other crimes mainly involving pornography and abuses against children. But the list was expanded by Alabama’s attorney general Troy King to include about a dozen additional offenses, most of them nonviolent, and several including the sale of marijuana. In their lawsuit, the A.C.L.U. contends that the attorney general’s list violates the Alabama Constitution, saying only the Legislature can decide what crimes fit the “moral turpitude” category. According to the New York Times , voting rights groups are “especially watchful this year because under a 2002 federal law, states are now coordinating lists to find felons and people who have died or moved, allowing easy — rights groups say too easy — purging of voters.” As the New Yo ... Source: www.fwicki.com --- 1 day ago
The American Civil Liberties Union sued Alabama elections officials Monday over what it says is an overly expansive policy disenfranchising felons, amid concern from voting rights groups nationwide that voting ... ... Source: www.aclu-nj.org --- 3 hours ago
TRENTON, N.J. -- The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey today applauded Governor Jon Corzine's decision to sign a bill into law that will help ensure women's ability to access birth control at the pharmacy. The bill, sponsored by Senator Fred Madden and Assemblywoman Linda Stender, makes New Jersey one of a handful of states to protect patient's ability to access prescriptions at the pharmacy. "Today's law strikes an important balance between protecting patient's health and religious freedom," said Deborah Jacobs, executive director of the ACLU-NJ. The pharmacy access law requires pharmacies to fill prescriptions for in-stock drugs or devices without undue delay, despite the sincerely held moral, philosophical or religious beliefs of an individual pharmacist. Pharmacies employing pharmacists who object to filling prescriptions can accommodate the objection so long as the pharmacy ensures that customers receive their prescriptions, including birth control, at the pharmacy without undue delay. "Access to safe and effective contraception is a central component of basic health care for women," said Jacobs. "This law will go a long way toward ending sex discrimination at the pharmacy." The ACLU's long-held advocacy for both reproductive rights and religious liberty uniquely positions the organization to address this issue. In April, the ACLU released a report, "Religious Refusals and Reproductive Rights: Accessing Birth Control a ... Source: www.topix.com --- 12 hours ago
' After serving eight months behind bars for a conviction of receiving stolen property, Annette McWashington Pruitt was excited about the prospect of getting to vote again. ... Source: www.topix.com --- 11 hours ago
Saggers unite: The ACLU wants to talk to you about possibly being part of the first lawsuit of its kind nationally. ... Source: www.mcgees.org --- 16 hours ago
The ACLU will be running a Vietnam Memorial-style ad in the New York Times, protesting FISA. They will try to print thousands and thousands of names of supporters, presumably in really tiny print. Get your name on the ad by visiting the ACLU FISA Action site. Don’t wait on this one, their submission deadline is less than [...] ... Source: www.topix.com --- 9 hours ago
Attorney General Michael Mukasey prompted Congress Monday morning, during a speech to the conservative American Enterprise Institute, to create new rules governing the rights of detainees held at Guantanamo ... ... Source: www.fwicki.com --- 20 hours ago
The American Civil Liberties Union sued Alabama elections officials Monday over what it says is an overly expansive policy disenfranchising felons, amid concern from voting rights groups nationwide that voting ... ... Source: www.fwicki.com --- 10 hours ago
? All United States ? Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota ... ... Source: www.fwicki.com --- 20 hours ago
Annette McWashington Pruitt tried to register to vote in Alabama, but said she was denied by officials in Jefferson County because of a 2003 felony conviction. ... Source: www.politicalgateway.com --- 23 hours ago
The American Civil Liberties Union said it may file suit to challenge a Flint, Mich., police policy of charging wearers of saggy pants with indecent exposure. ... Source: blog.thehumanist.com --- 4 hours ago
This morning, USA Today reported that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), in defense of religious freedom, will take on a case representing a group of Amish men in Mayfield, Kentucky, who were charged with not displaying mandatory lights and an orange triangular symbol on their horse-drawn buggies. On one side, the Amish men contend that [...] ... Source: education.zdnet.com --- 13 minutes ago
InformationWeek is reporting on the latest blow to the Child Online Protection Act, or COPA. COPA imposes heavy fines on libraries and schools (among other institutions) that fail to prevent children from “content harmful to minors.” If you’re asking just what constitutes “harmful to minors”, so did the ACLU and US courts on multiple occasions. [...] ... Source: www.ozzu.com --- 80 seconds ago
QUOTE: A federal appeals court struck down as unconstitutional a Clinton-era law that would have forced websites with adult material to verify visitors ages, dealing another blow to the government in a 10-year court battle over net censorship. The 3rd U.S. Circurt Court of Appeals upheld on Tuesday a 2007 lower-court decision that the Child Online Protection Act violated the First Amendment since it was not the most effective way to keep children from visiting adult websites. The Justice Department has been defending COPA since its passage in 1998, when the ACLU and others filed suit against the censorship law and won an immediate injunction. Since then, the court battle has made its way twice to the Supreme Court, though the government has never won any clear battles in the dispute. COPA makes it a crime to knowingly post material that is "harmful to minors" on the web for "commercial purposes" without having some method -- such as a credit card -- to verify a visitors age. Critics assailed the law for infantilizing the internet and requiring website operators -- including news sites -- to live in fear of prosecution if even a small part of their website contained adult material. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/0 ... rship.html This law is actually different from COPPA which is why Ozzu asks the age of someone signing up as a member. If they are under 13 we require that they have their parents sign a form giving them permission. ...
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has upheld a lower court ruling (PDF) that found the federal Child Online Protection Act (COPA) was overbroad and a violation of the first and fifth amendment to the U.S. constitution. The case was brought by the ACLU on behalf of writers, health educators, and artists, and is being hailed by citizens rights' groups and anti-censorship advocates as a significant victory…but at the same time, it's leaving legislators and many other groups concerned with childrens' welfare scratching their heads about how to protect children from inappropriate online material. The appeals court agreed with the lower cou Read | Permalink | Email This | Linking Blogs | More Images ...