Read the 2018-2019 ACLU SoCal Annual Report
Dear Friends,
Thank you! Your generous support has been a power catalyst for justice this year. I hope this annual report lets you share my pride in what you're helping the ACLU accomplish.
Though it is our court cases that often make headlines, we have always been driven by people power, and we're looking for ways to grow it. We're investing new resources into a volunteer structure that will greatly strengthen our impact, including a leadership program for community activists to empower them to train and organize others.
We are also dedicated to educating people on confidently advocating for themselves Every year, we distribute thousands of " Know Your Rights" guides on everything from immigrants' rights to students' rights. I encourage you to share them with family and friends.
I'm excited about finding strategic opportunities to mobilize ACLU supporters to help bring elected leaders into alignment with our values. Thanks to these efforts, California has made big changes this year — like historic reform on police use-of-force — and I know that together, we can continue to lead the nation in promoting liberty, equality, and justice for all.
In solidarity,
Hector O. Villagra
ACLU SoCal Executive Director
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Thursday, October 24, 2019 - 5:45pm
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Read the 2017-2018 ACLU SoCal Annual Report
With gratitude for your generosity, we are excited to celebrate our affiliate's 95th anniversary with you. The outpouring of public support for the ACLU's mission is a vote of confidence from millions of individuals across the country that we take very seriously, and honor through our dedicated advocacy.
In our first two decades, the ACLU SoCal fought against police brutality, racial injustice, and religious persecution. Our lawyers went to court to take stands for free speech, the rights of immigrants, the right of an attorney to meet with a client, and more.
Since those early years, the ACLU SoCal has taken on other vital matters: gender equity, voting rights, LGBTQ rights, economic justice, and more. But in all of these causes, old and new, there is never a single court decision or legislative victory that makes injustice a thing of the past. No victory ever stays won.
Card-carrying members of the ACLU have long been one of our most- valued assets. Though we have been mobilizing our members to engage in constituent activism for decades, the ACLU is now answering the call of the Trump era, working diligently in regions where threats and opportunities for human rights abound. We are informing voters of the power held by county supervisors, sheriffs, and district attorneys and publicizing where individuals running for office stand on key issues. These efforts are creating a sustainable base of members and voters who will be with us in 2018 and beyond.
Looking to the future, the ACLU will call upon our new and invigorated base of members, the majority of whom are women for the first time in our organization's history, to fight with us as we dare to create a more perfect union.
From our founding in 1923 to the present, our strength is working together. It takes all of us — staff and board, donors and members, community partners and volunteers — keeping constant vigilance against injustice.
In this report we've selected a few highlights of our work from this past year. We hope you share our pride in all that we've accomplished together.
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Tuesday, November 20, 2018 - 12:45pm
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With your help, this is what the @ACLU_SoCal has accomplished in 2018.
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In 2017, the ACLU of Southern California – backed by a record number of donors, thousands of volunteers and the pro bono support of law firms large and small – scored ground-breaking civil liberty victories.
Perhaps at no time in the 95-year history of the ACLU SoCal has the organization been so intensely active as agents of change and protectors of our constitutional rights. Court actions taken in the last year ranged from those in local venues on up to and including the U.S. Supreme Court. Our advocacy work took us from hosting grassroots phone banks to lobbying in city halls and Congress.
We could have never done it alone. Our mission is tremendously enriched by working with committed, cause-driven community organizations as coalition partners.
As proud as we are of our work, there’s no way to disguise the fact that we live at a difficult time when justice, whether political or economic, is endangered. We face it with an ever-fervent commitment to our mission – to free speech, immigrants’ rights, racial justice, reproductive justice, gender equity, LGBTQ rights, criminal justice, jails reform, education equity, fair treatment of people who are homeless, police practices reform and health care as a right.
All of us, together, keep the world spinning forward.
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Tuesday, December 12, 2017 - 7:30pm
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