NYCLU's Lieberman and Eisenberg Reflect on Civil Liberties After 9/11

The ACLU web project Upholding Freedom in Challenging Times uses audio interviews with ACLU and NYCLU staff to reflect on the changes since the attacks of September 11th, 2001. As part of the project, NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman and NYCLU Legal Director Arthur Eisenberg discussed the events of that day, the state of civil liberties in New York in the five years since the attacks, the NYCLU's work to ensure protest rights and challenge the random search policy in the New York City transit system.

Interviews with NYCLU staff are available for streaming or downloading here. You can also play these files via podcast by copying and pasting the address http://www.aclu.org/multimedia/pod_rss.xml into your podcasting application.

Interviews about the days after 9/11

• Donna Lieberman on the closed-door process by which the legislature adopted anti-terrorism legislation: Stream or Download
• Arthur Eisenberg on realizing that September 11th would have implications for civil liberties: Stream or Download

Interviews about working for civil liberties in the past five years

• Arthur Eisenberg on challenging the NYPD's unconstitutional policy of random searches of subway riders: Stream or Download
• Donna Lieberman on the working to protect the right to protest after September 11th: Stream or Download

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