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American Civil Liberties Union

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2012

    Frustrated New Yorker Sues Apple, Claiming Siri Doesn't Understand S**t

    ​Earlier this week, Apple's latest gadget, the loose-lipped and prudish Siri, was slammed by the Northern California ACLU for knowing a little too much about you -- and then sharing those personal tidbits with Apple. But over on the East Coast where people are arguably less patient, Siri users are ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2011

    BART Jams Cell Phone Service to Shut Down Protests

    No-speech zone?​This might just be a first in the annals of Bay Area transit agencies' political suppression (such as those annals are). BART has fessed up to jamming cell-phone signals yesterday at downtown stations in San Francisco in order to disrupt protests over the death of Charles Hill, who ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2011

    Deshon Marman, Football Player Kicked Off Plane for Saggy Pants, Won't Face Charges

    His style is not criminal ​The San Mateo County District Attorney's Office decided not to file criminal charges against the University of New Mexico football player, Deshon Marman, who was booted off a US Airways flight last month for refusing to pull up his sagging pants. But how could they reall ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2011

    Crossdressing Man Allowed on US Airways Flight

    Is this G-rated enough for US Airways?​Last week, SF Weekly told readers about the University of New Mexico football player who was booted from a US Airways flight because he refused to pull up his sagging pants. At the time, US Airways spokeswoman Valerie Wunder told reporters that Deshon Marman' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2011

    Judge: San Francisco Housing Authority Can't Ban People From Its Property

    A judge busts the Housing Authority. ​A San Francisco judge declared that the Housing Authority's nuisance injunctions which ban certain individuals from coming anywhere near its property citywide is unconstitutional. The Housing Authority has won 75 such injunctions against individuals since 2 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    WikiLeaks Investigation: Electronic Frontier Foundation Fights to Keep Twitter Records Private

    How private can you really be on the Internet?​Last month, a lower court ruled against the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, which tried to block the U.S. Government from obtaining secret tweets for its WikiLeaks investigation. Now the EFF, which works to protect the people's dig ... More >>

  • News

    April 6, 2011

    Blowing Smoke: Obama Promises One Thing, Does Another on Medical Marijuana

    How private can you really be on the Internet?​Last month, a lower court ruled against the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, which tried to block the U.S. Government from obtaining secret tweets for its WikiLeaks investigation. Now the EFF, which works to protect the people's dig ... More >>

  • News

    March 16, 2011

    S.F. Plastic Surgeon Wants to Shut Down Negative Web Commenters

    How private can you really be on the Internet?​Last month, a lower court ruled against the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, which tried to block the U.S. Government from obtaining secret tweets for its WikiLeaks investigation. Now the EFF, which works to protect the people's dig ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2010

    DADT Repeal: With All Deliberate Speed -- Or None At All?

    ​The Week in GayThe repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell is fucking mess, but I think there might be a way to fix things. If we act quickly. This is a real longshot -- and it's not guaranteed to work -- but we need get our hands on some mercury. Lots of it. A flock of Ibises in Florida has been rendered ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2010

    Judge Stephen Reinhardt Won't Recuse Himself From Prop. 8 Trial

    Harvard Law SchoolJudge Stephen Reinhardt says he'll be there for the Dec. 6 Prop. 8 trial​Judge Stephen Reinhardt has spurned a motion that he recuse himself from adjudicating over the pending 9th Circuit Court of Appeal review of Proposition 8.Supporters of the same-sex marriage ban contended th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2010

    'Glenn Beck, Come Back to Planet Earth,' Says Tides Foundation Head Drummond Pike

    Glenn Beck enjoys roasting the Tides Foundation even more than he likes boiling frogs​When Byron Williams -- the body armor-clad man charged with turning I-580 into a shooting gallery earlier this month -- listed his purported targets, it wasn't very surprising he named the ACLU. But the Tides Fou ... More >>

  • News

    July 14, 2010

    Facial Profiling

    Will face-recognition technology get an accused killer off the hook?

  • News

    July 14, 2010

    Welcome to Mi Pueblito, Washington

    The small-town, family-farm lifestyle that we love to celebrate is being preserved — thanks to Mexican immigrants.

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2010

    School That Deemed American Flag Clothing 'Incendiary' on Shaky Legal Ground

    Higher-ups at Live Oak High School may be caught with their pants down, legally​Administrators at Morgan Hill's Live Oak High School who opted to send home students bedecked in American flag regalia on Cinco de Mayo likely ran afoul of the law, one of the nation's foremost constitutional scholars ... More >>

  • News

    August 5, 2009

    S.F. pays lobbyist to advocate for government secrecy, critics say

    Higher-ups at Live Oak High School may be caught with their pants down, legally​Administrators at Morgan Hill's Live Oak High School who opted to send home students bedecked in American flag regalia on Cinco de Mayo likely ran afoul of the law, one of the nation's foremost constitutional scholars ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2009

    Critics Accuse City of Paying Lobbyists to Weaken Public Access Laws

    ​Yesterday we reported on how, despite detailed complaints from the public, San Francisco's lobbyists were skipping out on requirements to file with the Ethics Commission and report how they're using public money. Now, open government activists, spurred into sifting through some of the city's Sacr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2009

    Oscar Grant B-Day Party at Black Dot Cafe

    EKAphotographyBeeda Weeda and friendThe national media attention has pretty much moved elsewhere, yet the tragic shooting death of Oscar Grant on New Year's Day remains a sore spot for many in the community. In death, Grant has become a poster boy (literally) for the case against police misconduct, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2008

    Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: Stereo Steve

    EKAphotographyBeeda Weeda and friendThe national media attention has pretty much moved elsewhere, yet the tragic shooting death of Oscar Grant on New Year's Day remains a sore spot for many in the community. In death, Grant has become a poster boy (literally) for the case against police misconduct, ... More >>

  • Film

    August 20, 2008

    Not to Be

    Full of itself and not half as funny as it thinks it is, Hamlet 2 is simply tragic.

  • News

    May 14, 2008

    Animal Welfare Commission Wants to Outlaw Cruel Art

    Full of itself and not half as funny as it thinks it is, Hamlet 2 is simply tragic.

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2007

    Oakland Hyphy Sideshows Get A Supreme Court Reprieve, Sort Of

    Full of itself and not half as funny as it thinks it is, Hamlet 2 is simply tragic.

  • News

    March 21, 2007

    Walking the Line

    The SFPD says Daniel Dennard is a gangster, thief, and killer. There’s just one problem: They can’t prove anything.

  • News

    November 2, 2005

    First Proposition, Then Conception

    Take the initiative on the sticky question of parental notification

  • Music

    April 20, 2005

    Mother Knows Best

    A night on the town with Mom means talking about Jacko, Dabney Coleman, and pedophilia

  • Film

    February 23, 2005

    Reps Etc.

    A night on the town with Mom means talking about Jacko, Dabney Coleman, and pedophilia

  • News

    September 10, 2003

    Connerly's Con

    Ward Connerly says his new anti-racism initiative won't have any real impact on California. Critics beg to differ.

  • Culture

    May 28, 2003

    Dem Blues

    The left, turning right, was plain wrong to attack pop culture

  • News

    December 18, 2002

    Girl, Interrupted

    Alanna Krause believes that much of her hellish childhood could have been avoided. Now she's suing her father, her therapist, and her lawyer in an effort to prove it. How did it come to this?

  • Culture

    May 10, 2000

    Facial Hair

    Salvador Dali Talks to the Animals & The Beard

  • News

    April 5, 2000

    South to the Future

    Feminists Protest Gay Marriages

  • News

    February 2, 2000

    Spy vs Spite

    The Clinton administration has praised the Anti-Defamation League for helping shield kids from Internet hate. But should a group that spied on thousands of Californians be allowed to police the Web?

  • News

    September 8, 1999

    Preaching to Their Choirs

    It's political junkie reunion time at the first mayoral debate

  • Music

    March 31, 1999

    Riff Raff

    It's political junkie reunion time at the first mayoral debate

  • Film

    November 25, 1998

    The Camera Loves Them

    It's political junkie reunion time at the first mayoral debate

  • Music

    February 25, 1998

    Love Hate

    Nick Broomfield's Courtney problem

  • Calendar

    July 23, 1997

    Unspun

    Nick Broomfield's Courtney problem

  • News

    May 7, 1997

    Letters

    Nick Broomfield's Courtney problem

  • Calendar

    February 19, 1997

    Unspun

    Nick Broomfield's Courtney problem

  • Calendar

    January 29, 1997

    Mulch

    Nick Broomfield's Courtney problem

  • Calendar

    January 1, 1997

    Unspun

    Nick Broomfield's Courtney problem

  • Calendar

    December 11, 1996

    Night+Day

    Nick Broomfield's Courtney problem

  • News

    August 7, 1996

    Ghetto Blasting

    A cop's doodle travels to Washington, D.C., and returns as a warm-and-fuzzy crackdown on S.F.'s projects

  • News

    April 10, 1996

    Letters

    A cop's doodle travels to Washington, D.C., and returns as a warm-and-fuzzy crackdown on S.F.'s projects

  • News

    February 21, 1996

    Dog Bites

    A cop's doodle travels to Washington, D.C., and returns as a warm-and-fuzzy crackdown on S.F.'s projects

  • News

    October 4, 1995

    The Difference Between Comics and Literature

    Cartoonist Paul Mavrides fights the Board of Equalization over more than taxes

  • Calendar

    July 26, 1995

    Paper Trails

    Cartoonist Paul Mavrides fights the Board of Equalization over more than taxes

  • News

    June 21, 1995

    The War Womb

    For every direct action against an abortion clinic staged by Operation Rescue, expect an equal and opposite reaction by the Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights

  • News

    May 31, 1995

    Dog Bites

    For every direct action against an abortion clinic staged by Operation Rescue, expect an equal and opposite reaction by the Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights

  • Calendar

    May 31, 1995

    Night+Day

    For every direct action against an abortion clinic staged by Operation Rescue, expect an equal and opposite reaction by the Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights

  • News

    April 26, 1995

    Paper Trails

    For every direct action against an abortion clinic staged by Operation Rescue, expect an equal and opposite reaction by the Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights

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