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...American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is attempting to stay the execution, because it believes the state gave Gilmore an unfair choice--to die now or appeal the cae while remaining in jail with the death sentence hanging over...
...defendants and permit the case of the ten to be remanded to the custody and protection of the United Nations Human Rights Charter, of which Iran is a signatory. Noam Chomsky Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn Congressman Michael Harrington Denise Levertov State Representative Elaine Noble John Roberts, ACLU Joshua Rubinstein, Amnesty International Ruth and George Wald Professor Howard Zinn Marjorie Swann, Executive Secretary, American Friends Service Committee
...ACLU Suit. The committee was not alone in its attentions to the NSA last week. In Washington's U.S. district court, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a $500 million class-action suit charging the NSA ,and CIA with running a large and illegal spying campaign against antiwar elements in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The suit was brought on behalf of 7,200 individuals and 1,000 groups on which the two agencies supposedly kept files, monitored calls and cables and opened mail. Among the defendants are four communications companies-RCA Global Communications, ITT World Communications, Western...
...arrested in a 1967 Pentagon demonstration. Dan has a daughter who studies sociology in college, and another who does yoga every night before she goes to bed. Three other sons were kicked out of school for wearing their hair too long--Dan and his wife Margaret went to the ACLU and got it all fixed up. Margaret is getting a college degree. Walk into their house and The New York Times is on the table, near books by Eldridge Cleaver and Philip Roth, near Joan Baez records. The Sizemores loved John Kennedy and hated Johnson, hate Nixon. Once they alienated...
...sooner had the ban gone into effect than the local American Civil Liberties Union got a temporary restraining order. "People are indignant, and many are threatening civil disobedience," reported ACLU Spokesman Rod Ridenour...