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These orders represent a deliberate attempt to undo progress on diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility and create new barriers to opportunity.

Our civil liberties and civil rights are on the line. The ACLU’s guide helps to connect you with ways to advocate for our freedoms.

Every person must have access to safe and stable housing regardless of race, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, where they were born, or whether they have children — it’s a fundamental right.

To hear more about the human toll that drug criminalization takes, we spoke with Ayesha Rogers, Outreach Worker for the Newark Community Street Team, who has felt the impact of this unjust system firsthand.

To hear more about the human toll that drug criminalization takes, we spoke with Tonia Ahern, Community Coordinator for the National Center for Advocacy and Recovery who has felt the impact of this unjust system firsthand.

To hear more about the human toll that drug criminalization takes, we spoke with Caitlin O’Neill, Drug User Health & Liberation Strategist for the New Jersey Harm Reduction Coalition (NJHRC) and a survivor who has felt the impact of this unjust system firsthand.

ACLU-NJ Staff Attorney Molly Linhorst sat down with Edgar Aquino-Huerta, Farmworker Organizer at CATA, to talk more about his work as a farmworker, a filmmaker, a storyteller, and an advocate.

No one should be punished for exercising their constitutional right to a fair trial. As Governor Murphy considers categories of people to grant a chance at freedom, it’s imperative to include those who are serving extreme trial penalties.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) just issued a major executive order that gives incarcerated people a chance at freedom.