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Now, more than ever, the ACLU of Northern California needs your help to defend our civil liberties, which are protected by the Constitution and Bill of Rights but still under attack. 

Here's how:

• Sign up as an e-activist to send urgent messages to your elected officials about important legislation.
• Become active in your local ACLU chapter.
• Plan a community forum.
• Table at a local event or shopping center.
• Become a volunteer complaint counselor.
• Like us on Facebook.
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Get involved today!  Our civil liberties can't wait.

ACTION - Oppose the Use of Shackles on Pregnant Inmates in California

In California, we currently shackle pregnant women in jails and prisons. Excessive shackling increases the woman's risk of falling and renders her unable to break potential falls. Tell Gov. Schwarzenegger to sign AB 1900 and end the practice of shackling pregnant inmates in California.
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ACTION – Fund the Emergency Repair Program for Our Schools
Too many children attend California schools that are in dire need of repairs, suffering from broken bathrooms, leaky roofs, and heating and cooling systems that do not work. Fixing these problems is ultimately the State's responsibility. An ACLU settlement in 2004 established the Emergency Repair Program (ERP) to provide school districts with those funds, but in 2010 the ERP Account is empty--we need your help! Take action today.
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ACTION - Tell the Gov. to Cut This - The Death Penalty
To close the state's $20 billion budget gap, the governor has proposed slashing almost everything, but over the next 5 years, California will spend $1 billion on the death penalty. It's time for Californians to demand that we stop wasting millions on executions and cut this!
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Action - Tell Your D.A. to Replace the Death Penalty
Email or call your District Attorney to let him or her know your county would be better served by replacing the death penalty.
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ACTION - It's Time to Modernize Our Privacy Law
The more we do online, the more digital footprints we leave behind. Protections for our online activities - searches, purchases, mobile phone usage - have not been updated since 1986. That's before the World Wide Web and before most people even had a cell phone. Demand that Congress modernize our electronic privacy law. Demand your dotRights!
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ACTION - Sign the Petition to Save Sex Education in Sonoma
Sonoma County teens are being taught medically inaccurate, biased, abstinence-only sex education that puts their health at risk. We need your help to eliminate this instruction from your schools. Sign our petition to make sure that what is taught to students is science-based and accurate, as required by law.
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ACTION - Keep Roe v. Wade alive. It's up to us.
While pundits and politicians debate the future of health care reform, the stakes are as high for women and girls. Speaker Pelosi needs to hear from us about keeping abortion restrictions out of legislation on health insurance. She needs to know that we don't want health care reform to become another assault on reproductive freedom.
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ACTION - Push Facebook in the Right Direction
Demand Your dotRights—tell Facebook to keep moving in the right direction by fixing its app gap and giving you better control over your personal information.
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Google: Don't Close the Book on Reader Privacy
What you choose to read says a lot about who you are, what you value, and what you believe. That's why you should be able to learn about anything from politics to health without worrying that someone is looking over your shoulder. The ACLU has fought alongside libraries and bookstores time and again to defend the privacy rights of readers. Now we need your help to protect reader privacy rights in the digital era.
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