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NY Civil Liberties Union vows to keep fighting for people in midst of Trump Presidential victory

November 6, 2024 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

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NEW YORK CITY — USING STRONG LANGUAGE IN THE WAKE OF DONALD TRUMP’S RE-ELECTION to the U.S. Presidency, the New York Civil Liberties Union vowed to fight resolutely for people’s rights in a statement released Wednesday, Nov. 6.

“The reelection of Donald Trump is an unprecedented threat to our rights and liberties and the values to which New York and the country should aspire. His movement, rooted in racism, misogyny, bigotry and domination, seeks to ban abortion, jail and deport immigrants and separate families, criminalize protest, abolish public education, undermine the voting process, target trans people and the list of outrages goes on,” NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman said. “With fewer guardrails this time, New Yorkers are worried and angry. But we are also resolute: We demand control of our futures and our freedoms, not the fascist-in-chief.”

Lieberman declared that the NYCLU and ACLU are prepared to fight, pointing out that they won on many issues during the first Trump administration, among them the ban on Muslims entering the U.S., rescuing immigrant children, ending prolonged ICE detention, updating the state’s abortion law and adding new protections to the state’s voting rights and LGBT persons, among others.

Founded in 1951, the NYCLU “leverages the courts, the state house and local offices to challenge power at its source, and how we engage our communities for change,” according to an excerpt from its website. Famous disability rights activist Helen Keller was one of the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union in 1920.

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