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Ten Years After Patriot Act, Time to Restore America's Freedoms

October 26, 2011
A new report, Losing Liberty: The State of Freedom 10 Years After the Patriot Act, reveals how innocent Americans are regularly targeted & monitored, wasting precious resources; law needs reform (San Francisco, CA - October 25, 2011) This week marks...

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Brennan Center, Muslim Advocates, AALDEF Request NYPD Intelligence Records

September 21, 2011
Civil liberties groups today called on the New York City Police Department (NYPD) to hand over records related to the department's domestic intelligence gathering operations. The request comes on the heels of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director David Petraeus' call...

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Over 50 Organizations Sign Letter Opposing King Hearing Targeting American Muslims

June 15, 2011
At the heels of Peter King's second hearing on "radicalization" in the American Muslim community, over 50 civil rights, faith based, Muslim, Arab, South Asian, Sikh and civic organizations, led by Muslim Advocates, came together and sent a clear message to the Committee on Homeland Security: singling out a group of Americans based on religious faith is divisive and wrong, and a distraction to real threats to our national security

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Protecting the Civil Rights of American Muslims Hearing

April 2, 2011
Muslim Advocates' Farhana Khera testified last week in front of Congress to highlight the dire consequences of anti-Muslim bigotry in America. Click here to view the entire hearing. Farhana Khera's oral testimony can be viewed here. Muslim Advocates' full...

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