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American Civil Liberties Union

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2012

    [UPDATED with God's Motive:] 3.9 Earthquake Shakes OC

    UPDATE, APRIL 20, 11:20 A.M.: In addition to shaky stories, we should share with one another the reason God punished us with this earthquake--because as Pat Robertson will tell you, there can be no other reason for seismic activity than a vengeful deity. Gay marriage? The ACLU caravan coming to Sant ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2012

    Mom of Bullied Student Helps Develop An Anti-Bullying Course At Cal State Fullerton

    It's been nearly three years since Karyl Ketchum battled district administrators in court after football players at Corona Del Mar High threatened to shoot and rape her then-17-year-old daughter, the lead actress in the school's production of "Rent." Ketchum enlisted the help of the ACLU to file a l ... More >>

  • News

    January 5, 2012

    The LA Times Crosses Over

    How the newspaper's cozy relationship with Camp Pendleton hampers its coverage of religious controversies on the base

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2011

    [UPDATED WITH CITY'S NEAR CLUELESS REACTION] Long Beach Pot Ordinance Ruled Illegal: Cannabis Activists Winning?

    ​UPDATE, OCT. 7, 12 P.M.: Long Beach city officials are scratching their heads about how to respond to an appeal court decision that appears to overturn the city's medical marijuana ordinance. According to an article by Greggory Moore posted yesterday evening on Long Beach Post, the city attorney ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2011

    [UPDATED] Irvine 11 Charged With Misdemeanors, Face Jail, Probation, Community Service if Convicted

    Photos by Christopher Victorio/OC WeeklySeven of the Irvine 11​UPDATE, MARCH 11, 4:08 P.M.: The arraignment of the Irvine 11 was continued this morning until April 15 so the court can consider defense motions to seal grand jury documents, remove the Orange County District Attorney (OCDA) from the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2011

    Supreme Court Rules for Reverend Fred Phelps' 'God Hates Fags' Picketing Outside Military Funerals

    ​The Reverend Fred Phelps' God-Hates-Faggetry that plays out outside military funerals, political conventions and Rent productions at Corona del Mar High School won U.S. Supreme Court protection this morning.Justices voted 8-1 to uphold an appeals-court ruling that threw out a $5 million judgment ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2011

    [UPDATED] Irvine 11 Charged With Misdemeanors, Face Jail, Probation, Community Service if Convicted

    ​UPDATED, FEB. 28, 8:33 A.M.: The Islamic Institute of Orange County hosts "Stand With the Irvine 11: Community Town Hall and Action" at 6:30 p.m. Saturday in the IIOC Multipurpose Room, 1220 N. State College Blvd., Irvine.The event flier follows after the jump. (Also, scroll down a couple posts i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2010

    Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day

    ​Headline: D.A. Arrests Cripple White Supremacist GangComment by OCFAN92648: Congratulations to all those involved in operation stormfront to identify and prosecute these racist gang members. We all should feel safer knowing that those that promote violence are off our streets. I would like to see ... More >>

  • News

    December 16, 2010

    The Feds Bury Border Patrol Abuses of Immigrants

    But what's been unearthed reveals a culture of cruelty

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    ACLU Issues Arizona Travel Advisory

    ​The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, whose coverage area includes Orange County, and the ACLUs of Northern California, San Diego and Imperial Counties and 26 other affiliates, issued an Arizona travel alert today.Arizona's response?"Meh."

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2010

    Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Day

    ​Headline: Spike in Gang Violence May Foreshadow a Long Hot SummerComment by STOPCRIME: Raid kills COCKROACHES...it's time to fumigate our country.

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2010

    Tariq Ramadan's Looming OC Speech Draws Warning From Muslim Group

    Wikipedia CommonsTariq Ramadan​What the American Islamic Forum for Democracy derides as the "Tariq Ramadan American Islamist Victory Tour 2010" includes a May stop near Disneyland, where American Muslims are being warned by the self-described liberty lovers to "be on guard" as the Swiss academic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2010

    [UPDATED:] Day Laborers Sue Costa Mesa

    Photo by Beth StirnamanAn earlier protest for day laborers.​As I was snapping photos of protesters outside Costa Mesa City Hall this morning, a white guy in his 40s was suddenly in my face asking, "What's all this about?"Informed that day laborers were suing the city, he remarked, "Just round up t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2009

    Polite Dinner Topic is "Racist City Ordinances" in Orange County

    Photo by Beth StirnamanWill work for . . . work, in the City of Orange.​When last Clockwork Ernest Hemingwayed on the Potluck for Progressives, this scratch-resistant sidewinder told of how the kibosh had to be put on the Nov. 13 gathering because the scheduled speaker from the regrouping Californ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2009

    Lawsuit Settlement Breaks Santa Ana's Citizenship-Application Logjam

    ​UPDATED WITH CORRECTIONS AFTER THE JUMP. . . Citizenship applications that have been backlogged in Santa Ana for years must be processed in the next six months under a settlement announced today. The agreement also covers cases in the Los Angeles and San Bernardino areas. 

  • Columns

    October 15, 2009

    Letters From OC Weekly Readers

    ​UPDATED WITH CORRECTIONS AFTER THE JUMP. . . Citizenship applications that have been backlogged in Santa Ana for years must be processed in the next six months under a settlement announced today. The agreement also covers cases in the Los Angeles and San Bernardino areas. 

  • News

    October 1, 2009

    Can the Colectivo Tonantzin and the ACLU Beat Orange's Anti-Day-Laborer Ordinance?

    ​UPDATED WITH CORRECTIONS AFTER THE JUMP. . . Citizenship applications that have been backlogged in Santa Ana for years must be processed in the next six months under a settlement announced today. The agreement also covers cases in the Los Angeles and San Bernardino areas. 

  • Blogs

    September 4, 2009

    Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Week: Laguna Edition

    Usually this column focuses on folks who hate Mexicans, immigrants, poor people, non-white people and "Third World peasants" who come to this country to build "clown houses"--yes, we're still scratching our heads about what the hell that means, although apparently it has something to do with Mexican ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2009

    Laguna Beach Settles Lawsuit Over Homeless Ordinance

    Laguna Beach agreed today to settle a lawsuit over the city's treatment of disabled homeless people, according to the ACLU of Southern California.   "Under the agreement, the city's police officers will not cite, arrest or harass people under state law simply for sleeping in public places, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2009

    DA Serves Permanent Injunction To Those Whose Cases The DA Had Dismissed

    The DA's office served a re-packaged permanent gang injunction this morning to dozens of people it has concluded are active gang participants in the Orange Varrio Cypress gang, including 62 individuals whose gang injunction cases the DA had already dismissed last month and who believed they were no ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2009

    In an Unprecedented Move, DA Dismisses Bulk of Gang Injunction Cases in Orange

    The District Attorney's office stunned ACLU attorneys arguing the cases of five defendants named in the city of Orange's latest gang injunction when it filed yesterday to completely dismiss the lawsuit against their five defendants and 57 others. The cases were set to go to trial July 6 and the ACLU ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2009

    Is the DA's Office Losing the Battle for an Orange Gang Injunction?

    Agapito MoralesSantiago Orange Growers Association, North Cypress Street, Orange, ca. 1950Senior Assistant DA John Anderson sat in the juror section of Superior Court Judge Kazuharo Makino's courtroom this morning with pursed lips. He listened closely to what Makino was going to say -- and how he wo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2009

    ACLU: Guilty Pleas in Terror Case Pave Way for Appeals

    Mission Viejo's Hossein Kalani Afshari and six other Iranian-Americans who pleaded guilty last week to raising funds for a U.S.-designated terrorist group made the plea so they can appeal their case before a higher court, claims the ACLU. Besides 52-year-old Afshari, Roya Rahmani, 48, of Vienna, Va. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2009

    ACLU Blames Hate Mongers Coming to CdM High on Original 'Rent' Stance

    Corona Del Mar High School officials' initial decision to cancel the student production of Rent and their subsequent failure to address a growing atmosphere of intolerance at the school created "a breeding ground for homophobic attitudes" that is bringing the Rev. Fred Phelps' "God Hates Fags" group ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2009

    It's a Quick Read 29

    Orange County Register: Anaheim police want to question two men shown in an Angel Stadium surveillance video in the opening day assault death of Brian Powers, 27, of Buena Park. That's right, sports fans, they're even watching you in the cheap seats. . . . A man who was arrested at Disneyland l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2009

    Supremes' Prop. 8 Oral Arguments Generate Vigils, Viewing Parties, Rallies

    Okay, Prop. 8, supporters, be honest: Would you rather attend a party thrown by gays or straights? If you answered the latter, well, then, you haven't been to a party thrown by gays, have you? Think of all the collected knowledge of Martha Stewart, the Queer Eye guys and Chelsea Handler funneled int ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2009

    Still More Fun From the Prop. 8 Imbroglio . . .

    If it is even possible, there will be a greater concentration of gay and lesbian people in San Francisco on March 5, when the California Supreme Court hears oral arguments in the challenge of Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage. On the flipside, the day could also see a huge spike in intol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2009

    OC Shows Respectable Level of Support for Prop. 8 Challenge

    According to the National Center for Lesbian Rights, Lambda Legal and the ACLU, among the Orange County contingent filing "friend of the court" briefs in support of Attorney General Jerry Brown's legal challenge of same-sex marriage barring Proposition 8:Irvine United Congregational ChurchOrange Cou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 31, 2008

    Looking Back at 2008: The Ecstasy and the Irony

    This is not a look back at disgraced Sheriff Mike Carona, the Little Sheriff, the Debs, the Little Debbie Snack, the Freeway Complex Fire, Rick Warren, Wiley Drake, any lantern-jawed preacher with the last name of Schuller, pedo-priests, the 241 toll road extension, Proposition 8, fluctuating gasol ... More >>

  • News

    June 26, 2008

    Declassified FBI Files Exonerate Joel Dvorman, OC's Original Conservative Scapegoat

    This is not a look back at disgraced Sheriff Mike Carona, the Little Sheriff, the Debs, the Little Debbie Snack, the Freeway Complex Fire, Rick Warren, Wiley Drake, any lantern-jawed preacher with the last name of Schuller, pedo-priests, the 241 toll road extension, Proposition 8, fluctuating gasol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2008

    Minutemen-Mexican Fundraiser!

    This is not a look back at disgraced Sheriff Mike Carona, the Little Sheriff, the Debs, the Little Debbie Snack, the Freeway Complex Fire, Rick Warren, Wiley Drake, any lantern-jawed preacher with the last name of Schuller, pedo-priests, the 241 toll road extension, Proposition 8, fluctuating gasol ... More >>

  • News

    October 11, 2007

    Smiley Coyotl

    When is a prosecutor not a prosecutor? The answer spared a Santa Ana activist/punk rocker from criminal charges

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2007

    Chapman responds to outlaw fraternity

    As reported yesterday on Navel Gazing, a group hoping to start a Jewish Fraternity at Chapman, see [Scarlet Letters, May 10] has issued a warning through the American Civil Liberties Union that the school cease what they consider violations of their First Amendment rights on campus or face the cons ... More >>

  • News

    May 4, 2006

    Unflinching Sincerity

    Unitarian Human Rights Forum

  • Columns

    May 4, 2006

    Diary of a Mad County

    April 26 - May 2

  • News

    March 11, 2004

    I Am a Terrorist: I Teach

    A radicals journey from thin mints to the classroom

  • News

    August 7, 2003

    Dear John

    An open letter to US Attorney General Ashcroft

  • Columns

    August 7, 2003

    Diary of a Mad County

    An open letter to US Attorney General Ashcroft

  • News

    May 1, 2003

    Blitzed

    Fullerton activist fights rave bill

  • News

    April 10, 2003

    Suspicious Minds

    Local libertarians look licked

  • Columns

    October 10, 2002

    Jet Set!

    Hangin with homos in OKC and RepCon 2002, dawg

  • Features

    January 3, 2002

    Diary of a mad county

    Orange County, California: 2001

  • Music

    August 23, 2001

    Rave Off

    Drug paranoia killed B3Cande desert rave

  • Features

    August 9, 2001

    Pompeii Dog

    Irvine agitators stuff selves at San Pedros Elias Cafe

  • Features

    January 25, 2001

    Censorship With a Happy Face

    How Anaheim bans books without banning them

  • News

    March 30, 2000

    Bigger Than the Beatles

    UC Irvine professor Jon Wieners fight for John Lennons FBI file reveals something ugly about democracy in America

  • Columns

    July 22, 1999

    The Computer Wore Colors

    How a software glitch produced the DAs gang problem

  • News

    April 29, 1999

    DWUS

    Driving While a UCI Student

  • News

    February 18, 1999

    Jane Says

    She guides you through online erotica

  • News

    October 29, 1998

    Geeks of the World, Unite!

    And write!

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