<div dir="ltr">Hi all <div>As local president of the ACLU CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, I am forwarding ACLU Illinois civil liberties Impact report for this year that will update you on the issues of current concern and what you might do. If you scroll down, you will see a link to the full report, and if you have any local questions to raise, please let me know. Thanks!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">ACLU of Illinois</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:acluofillinois@aclu-il.org">acluofillinois@aclu-il.org</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 9:30 AM<br>Subject: Winter 2022 Impact Report: The Fight to Preserve Our Democracy<br>To: <<a href="mailto:carolleff1947@gmail.com">carolleff1947@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><u></u>
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<div><span style="font-size:20px;color:rgb(54,97,189);text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">The Fight to Preserve Our Democracy</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(54,97,189);font-style:italic;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">A note from ACLU of Illinois Executive Director, Colleen Connell</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:bold">Please consider this an invitation – perhaps an imperative – to engage in the preservation of our democracy.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">A year removed from January 6, 2021 the threat that insurrection poses to our democracy remains undiminished. To be clear, without functioning democratic institutions, including courts, fair and transparent electoral procedures and elections, and a commitment by elected officials and the public to peaceful transfers of power to those who win elections, in short – a continued commitment to the rule of law, the other aspects of our democracy exist in name only. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Without our continued vigilance, we will lose our democracy and with its demise, we will forfeit the cherished liberties we have fought together for so long to secure. </span><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:bold">What does that continued vigilance look like in 2022? </span>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">We must use 2022 as an opportunity to deepen our collective engagement – with the ACLU and with each other – and: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Protect voting rights</span><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:bold">and the integrity of the independent system for recording and counting votes,</span><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> as well as the system for certifying the results to reflect the will of the people. </span>
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<span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Buttress protections for fundamental rights,</span><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> using all the tools available to us, including working to pass local city ordinances and state legislative measures that protect and advance fundamental rights.</span>
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<span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Celebrate – and implement – our hard-won victories,</span><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> including recent litigation and legislative victories to assure more accountable policing, repeal of the Parental Notice of Abortion Act, changes to Illinois law to enable people born in Illinois to correct the gender marker on their birth certificates, changes to help assure a stable transition to new health care providers for children in foster care, to name but a few.</span>
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<li style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Commit to changing the distorted narratives that have taken hold in large segments of our society, including:</span></li>
<li style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-left:3em"><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">The false claim that protecting the rights of women, people of color, and LGBTQ folks will diminish the rights of white Americans; </span></li>
<li style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-left:3em"><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">The dangerous assertion that the First Amendment’s protection of speech broadly covers the use of violent force to attack those who disagree with speakers; or </span></li>
<li style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-left:3em"><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">The nihilistic contentions that a person’s individual rights empower them to do whatever they please in a public setting and to other people, regardless of the dangerous – or perhaps deadly – impact on others.</span></li>
<li style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Hold our elected officials accountable for their words and their actions:</span></li>
<li style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-left:3em"><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">If they run for office on a platform of reform, hold them accountable, recognizing that real reform may take more than one term – but action not just words is required.</span></li>
<li style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-left:3em"><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">If they say one thing in private . . . I condemn violence but the cost of speaking out is too high . . . commit to supporting them for standing up.</span></li>
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<span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">To be sure, no one (including the ACLU) has all the answers. Rebuilding our democracy will be neither quick nor easy. Our fragile democracy demands our attention and our action. As Mahatma Gandhi wisely observed: “You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.” </span><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:bold">Together, we will take action to protect our democracy – thank you for your partnership.</span>
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<div><span style="font-size:20px;color:rgb(0,85,170);text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Update on the Fight for Rights and Liberties</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">As 2022 begins, we would like to reflect on the collective work that went into protecting our civil rights and liberties last year. In 2021, because of the commitment of supporters and activists like you, the courage of our clients, and the strength of our partnerships the ACLU of Illinois continued to protect and expand civil rights and liberties. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Emily Werth is a Staff Attorney at the ACLU of Illinois whose work focuses on women's and reproductive rights. She started working at the ACLU of Illinois in the fall of 2014.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal">I ran the day-to-day operations of the Judicial Bypass Coordination Project for nearly four years, and personally worked with hundreds of young people who were forced to go through the burdensome judicial bypass process in order to access abortion care. I shared my expertise about the parental notice law and my first-hand observations of the harms it imposed on our clients as part of the effort to repeal PNA.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal">The threats to reproductive rights coming from the Supreme Court and many states have emboldened a grassroots movement for abortion justice and access for all, without any barriers based on who you are, where you are from, or how much money you have.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">While issues related to access to affirming reproductive health care still exist, I’m thankful that in Illinois we have been able to pass legislation that increases access to reproductive health care, put affirmative protections in place and repeal dangerous and harmful restrictions to access. </span></div>
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