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Tag: American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois

CAIR-Chicago Co-Hosts "Know Your Rights and the FBI" Community Workshop

March 29, 2008
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CAIR-Chicago and the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois (ACLU-IL) came together Saturday, March 29, 2008 to present “Know Your Rights and the FBI” a workshop aimed at educating the community about their rights when dealing with law enforcement, particularly the FBI.

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Posted in Civil Rights Center, Our News Tagged ACLU-IL, American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, CAIR Chicago, FBI, human rights

CAIR-Chicago Co-Hosts “Know Your Rights and the FBI” Community Workshop

March 29, 2008
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| Categories: Civil Rights Center, Our News

CAIR-Chicago and the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois (ACLU-IL) came together Saturday, March 29, 2008 to present “Know Your Rights and the FBI” a workshop aimed at educating the community about their rights when dealing with law enforcement, particularly the FBI.

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Posted in Civil Rights Center, Our News Tagged ACLU-IL, American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, CAIR Chicago, FBI, human rights

CAIR-Chicago Meets with ACLU-IL and Winston & Strawn Attorney on Religious Discrimination at Standardized Testing Centers

November 4, 2005
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Yaser Tabbara, Executive Director of CAIR-Chicago met with the Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois (ACLU-IL) and an Faiyaz Hussain, attorney from Winston & Strawn to discuss legal strategy for a complaint involving a Muslim woman who was asked to remove her headscarf (hijab) at a local testing center. The parties discussed the options under which a law suit can be filed and whether the complaint can be filed as a class action.

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Posted in Civil Rights Center, Our News Tagged ACLU-IL, American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, Headscarf, hijab, Winston & Strawn

CAIR-Chicago Testifies Before the Illinois House of Representatives

October 31, 2005
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Christina Abraham, CAIR-Chicago Civil Rights Coordinator, testified in a Racial Profiling Subject Matter Hearing before the Judiciary II – Criminal Law Committee of the Illinois House of Representatives. The hearing, which took place in the Capitol Building in Springfield, Ill., addressed the legislative proposal to continue data collection on racial profiling for traffic stops and amend the legislation to incorporate more information in the data that is collected.

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Posted in Civil Rights Center, Our News Tagged ACLU-IL, American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee of the Illinois House of Representatives, racial profiling, Racial Profiling Subject Matter Hearing

Meeting to Discuss Class Action Lawsuit Against DHS

August 29, 2005
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CAIR-Chicago met with the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois (ACLU-Illinois), the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago (CIOGC), and the Muslim Bar Association (MBA) to discuss an ACLU class action law suit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for their inadequate policies concerning the reentry of Muslim U.S. citizens from abroad into the U.S., when those citizens have names similar to someone else on a government watch list.

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Posted in Our News Tagged aclu-illinois, American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, CIOGC, Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, MBA, muslim bar association

NBC 5: ACLU Accuses FBI, Police of Spying on Peaceful Groups

December 2, 2004
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Quaker, Muslim Groups Demand Information On FBI Activities

CHICAGO — The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois believes the FBI and local police, working as members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, are encouraging rampant spying, NBC5’s Mary Ann Ahern reported.

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Posted in In the Media Tagged ACLU, ACLU-IL, aclu-illinois, American Civil Liberties Union, American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigations, joint terrorism task force, spies
 
 
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