I just re-upped my membership in the ACLU. Here's the website:

[Zorra]

http://action.aclu.org/site/PageServer?pagename=FJ_donationhome&s_subsrc=getinvolved_donate_hp

Help stop the spread of fascism in America.
Peace

[JVS]

1. How does that stop fascism? Citizens United was when the ACLU helped guarantee fascism's triumph.

Fuck them.

[forty6]

2. People of Maine, WIsconsin Michigan, Ohio, Florida, New Jersey and

all "57" other states...

paranoia
depression
anxiety.

etc. etc. Them TOO!

Take that advice and get on board!!!

[SDuderstadt]

3. I've been a lifelong member of...

the ACLU. Odd that they say nothing about stopping "the spread of fascism" in the United States on their website.

[jdlh8894]

4. Good luck!

There is no "spread of fascism " in the US.

[jdlh8894]

5. Without looking @ Wiki

Give me a definition of Fascism.

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. Banning burqas in France. nt

[jdlh8894]

7. France,USA, Facisim ???

Connection ???

[RaleighNCDUer]

12. This thread is the product of a burqa thread. nt

[JDPriestly]

8. I was an active supporter but am no more because of their stance

on Citizens' United. I would not expect to agree with every stance that the ACLU takes. But doing anything to support increasing campaign donations by corporations is just despicable and a waste of money.

[H2O Man]

9. Great choice!

I'm a long-time member. More, I've contacted the ACLU numerous times through the years. They can be helpful for grass roots activist, even without going to court. Years ago, in a school board election, the school in question was attempting to keep low-income citizens from voting. This included some personal attacks against yours truly. The ACLU came through: we won the two contested seats.

Recommended.

[Odin2005]

10. Sorry, the ACLU stabbed us in the back when it sided with Evil in Citizen's United.

They sold their souls, fuck them.

[Tesha]

11. With regard to the folks pissed-off about Citizens United...

If you accept that artificial persons such as corporations
exist, then it is entirely reasonable that our right to
speech, *GUARANTEED IN THE CONSTITUTION*, extends to all
persons, artificial or natural. This was the narrow
position for which the ACLU filed its amicus brief.

It would have been great if Citizens United had been a
case about "corporate personhood", but it wasn't. That
was *NOT* any part of the question that reached the
Supreme Court, so there was no opportunity for the
ACLU to take a stance on that.

But even then, be careful what rights you're willing
to discard: labor unions and political parties are
corporations too, and under this decision, they have
speech rights too, rights that we usually like.

Tesha