Upcoming NYCLU Events
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02 / 10
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02 / 11
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02 / 12
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Some advocates call it the biggest civil rights issue of our time. But what is the School to Prison Pipeline? Affecting hundreds of thousands of students nation wide and in New York state, the School to Prison Pipeline describes local, state and federal education and public safety policies that push students out of school and into the criminal justice system. This system disproportionately impacts youth of color and youth with disabilities. As part of the NYCLU's continuing Civil Liberties Discussion Series, Chloe Dugger of the NYCLU will discuss the civil rights and civil liberties issues at play in the School to Prison Pipeline. The New York Civil Liberties Union has launched a new program to engage New York City young professionals between the ages of 24 and 40 in the civil rights/social justice movement. Are you a young NYCLU supporter who is able and excited to … - serve as an ambassador for a great organization and contribute your skills and creativity to the forming and shaping of this group, - recruit your like-minded friends to join, - devote at least one night a month to attend planning meetings, - help organize and market events and - invite friends and colleagues to attend events? Then join the group! RSVPs required. | ||
02 / 13
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Get the flier! So why do black men who have sex with men have twice the rate of HIV infections of white men who have sex with men? | ||
02 / 14
Start: 4:30 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Get the flier! I DO! to Marriage Equality. Now Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno must do the same. Come show your support; speak with folks; get letters signed in support of marriage equality. Two Locations: LIRR, Penn Station and Kew Gardens, E Train | ||
02 / 15
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02 / 19
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02 / 20
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02 / 21
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02 / 22
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02 / 23
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02 / 24
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02 / 25
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Get the flier! This event includes a screening of the award-winning documentary followed by a discussion featuring filmmaker Bennett Singer and Walter Naegle, Rustin’s partner. Join us | ||
02 / 26
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02 / 27
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02 / 28
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02 / 29
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03 / 1
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03 / 3
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03 / 4
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
The NYCLU Civil Liberties Discussion Series takes place from 7 – 8:30 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each month. Each session consists of two parts: a guest speaker and open discussion. This month's discussion focuses on reproductive rights in New York. As President Bush has stocked our courts with conservative judges and the federal government continues to erode protections guaranteed by Roe v. Wade, we must take action to modernize our reproductive rights laws — laws that have not been updated since 1970 — in a way that will ensure healthy futures for us, our sisters, our daughters and for the next generations of New Yorkers. | ||
03 / 5
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03 / 6
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
A clip from "Brother Outsider - The Life Of Bayard Rustin""From the Margins: A look at the Intersection of Race, Gender & Sexuality" Drawing from the life and work of individuals such as Bayard Rustin and Huey P. Newton, the discussion will delve into the intersecting oppressions of race and sexuality, looking through the critical lens of where we have come from, the current state we are in and the struggle that continues into the future. | ||
03 / 7
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03 / 8
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03 / 9
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03 / 10
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03 / 11
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Are you a young NYCLU supporter who is able and excited to … - serve as an ambassador for a great organization and contribute your skills and creativity to the forming and shaping of this group, Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
New York is the first state in the country to sign a contract with the federal government to implement a national identity card. National IDs would violate Americans' privacy rights by helping to consolidate data and facilitate tracking by the government. The government, your employer and your neighbors don’t need to know where you go or what you buy. Come to the forum, "Your Papers Please: What the Real ID Act Means for American Values," to learn more about the Real ID Act and how to stop it. St. John’s Episcopal Church Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
A Celebration of Activism with Jim Hightower Sponsored by Common Cause/New York and New York Civil Liberties Union This event features New York area activists featured in Jim's new book, including: Martin Dunn, Dunn Development, Queens And representatives of: Slow Food USA Musical entertainment will be provided by the Granny Peace Brigade. Tuesday, March 11, 7 to 9 p.m. | ||
03 / 12
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03 / 13
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Get the flier! As federal protections of abortion access are weakened, New York’s leading reproductive rights organizations have been asking this question. The Bush administration has filled the courts with ultra-conservative judges that have made devastating decisions regarding women’s health. The Supreme Court’s unprecedented move to uphold the federal abortion ban last April was a wake-up call that we must fight to ensure that New York continues to protect and respect a woman’s ability to make private reproductive health care decisions. | ||
03 / 14
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03 / 15
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03 / 16
Start: 11:30 am
End: 2:00 pm
South Suffolk Chapter of the National Organization for Women, Pro-Choice League, Inc., the Suffolk County NYCLU and Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic, Inc. present "Brunch with Bill." Come hear legendary reproductive and civil rights activist Bill Baird speak on "Choice: Past, Present and Future." Sunday, March 16 Joining the discussion will be: Since the 1960s, Bill Baird has been fighting for, and securing, our privacy and reproductive rights. Among Baird’s landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases establishing rights to privacy, birth control and abortion, is Baird v. Eisenstadt, the 1972 case which laid the groundwork for, and was quoted in, Roe v. Wade the following year. | ||
03 / 17
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Get the flier! The evening will include a community gallery and discussions of the issues and ways to take action. | ||
03 / 18
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03 / 19
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03 / 20
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03 / 21
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03 / 22
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03 / 23
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03 / 24
Start: 8:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm
Hosted by the NYCLU’s Young Professionals, the Big Gay Variety Show will feature fun and exciting performances by songstress Our Lady J; Another Gay Movie's Michael Carbonaro; Mac Award-nominee Kate Pazakis (The Sexless Years); comedian Jeff Hiller; Melanie Adelman and Ellie Dvorkin from Mel and El: This Show Rhymes; hip hop artist Soce the Elemental Wizard; Transamerica's Bianca Leigh; Todd Buonapane from Broadway's 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; comedienne Poppi Kramer from The Biggest Loser; comedian Shawn Hollenbach; singing sensations The Dreams; and the Sizzle Twins. | ||
03 / 25
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03 / 26
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
What: A forum on GENDA, the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act. GENDA would add gender identity and expression to the list of protected classes in the state's existing Human Rights Law. It would protect transgender individuals and those who don’t fit the stereotyped norm of gender, like a feminine man or masculine woman, from being denied or fired from a job, harassed in the workplace, evicted by their landlords, refused service in a restaurant, given inadequate medical care and otherwise treated as second-class citizens solely because of their gender identity and expression. | ||
03 / 27
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03 / 29
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03 / 30
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03 / 31
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 10:00 pm
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04 / 1
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
The NYCLU Civil Liberties Discussion Series takes place from 7 – 8:30 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each month. Each session consists of two parts: a guest speaker and open discussion. Each month the Discussion Series hosts a speaker from the NYCLU, ACLU or other advocacy group to discuss a current civil liberties issue or controversy. Please join us Tuesday, April 1 at 7 p.m. in our offices at 125 Broad St., 19th floor. Following the presentations, NYCLU staff will lead a discussion with the speakers and attendees. Pizza and drinks will be provided to get the discussion going. | ||
04 / 2
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04 / 3
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04 / 4
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
AN INNOCENT MAN IN GUANTANAMO: Five Years of My Life When: 7 p.m. Friday, April 4 Where: South Court Auditorium Cost: $15 general admission and $10 library donors, seniors and students with valid identification In October 2001, 19-year-old Murat Kurnaz, a Turkish citizen and legal resident of Germany, traveled to Pakistan to learn more about his Muslim faith. A few weeks later, on the day he was to return to Germany, Kurnaz was arrested at a police checkpoint without explanation. Kurnaz was then handed over to the U.S. military and transported to a U.S. military base in Afghanistan. After two months, Kurnaz was taken to Guantanamo and held prisoner for five years. | ||
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04 / 10
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