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Those willing to delay longer were also quickest at learning a discrimination task.

That would leave West Virginia, with two active tracks, as the last holdout.

Higher-welfare alternatives exist, but deceptive labels on conventionally grown birds make it hard for consumers to analyze animal welfare claims.

The exact number is unknown, as rodents are not covered under the Animal Welfare Act, the primary federal law for the protection of research animals.

The ability to exercise control over one’s environment is recognized as an important component of good welfare.

Creating such an “acoustic lighthouse” could reduce collision risks associated with many human-made structures, such as wind turbines and tall buildings, potentially saving billions of birds annually.

Mice—even those raised in standard, mostly barren “shoebox” cages—responded well when provided early life access to play areas.

This year also marks the beginning of the ACLU’s second century of defending civil liberties and civil rights.

Mindful of that legacy, we are redoubling our efforts to close the gap between the America that was promised and the America that is.

We are committed to dismantling the structures that perpetuate systemic racism and inequity in housing, access to the ballot, law enforcement, and more.

Right now, our nation has a window of opportunity in which we can deepen and expand protections of civil liberties and civil rights.

Executive Director After four years battling the Trump administration’s attacks on civil liberties and civil rights at the federal level, in we were prepared for a wave of relentless and even more aggressive attempts to erase voting rights, abortion rights, and transgender equality at the state level.

This year alone, lawmakers introduced a barrage of blocking access to abortion, and more than 100 bills restricting transgender rights.

civil liberties, and the challenges ahead are significant.

This post-election backlash against civil liberties in the states defined the ACLU’s work this year, cutting across every element of our mission: voting rights, immigrants’ rights, LGBTQ equality, reproductive freedom, free speech, and so much more.

We blocked state legislators from enacting a law in Arkansas that would have denied gender-affirming health care to transgender youth, putting their lives at risk.

Across the country, we pushed back against a deluge of similar attacks on trans youth, helping ensure they can access health care, participate in school sports, use public restrooms in keeping with their gender identity, and live without discrimination.

argued that these bans exclude students with disabilities and underlying medical conditions from public schools—in violation of federal disability rights laws.

In the South, which has long been the epicenter of the fight for civil rights, we’re tackling everything from voter suppression and economic inequality to mass incarceration and reproductive freedom.

Since the ACLU was founded in met challenges to civil liberties with strength, strategy, and resilience.

A Record of Impact The ACLU was at the center of nearly every civil liberties battle in on the ground, and rallying in the street.

In Brooklyn Center, Minnesota—where Daunte Wright was killed by police who stopped him because of the air freshener in his windshield—we helped pass a pioneering resolution that reexamines and transforms municipal practices for achieving public safety.

We believe this resolution has the potential to alter what public safety means and looks like, and plan to bring this model to cities nationwide.

Placing police in our schools results in the criminalization of minor infractions of school rules and perpetuates a chilling pattern of racial and disability Four years ago, the ACLU pledged our full firepower to stop the Trump administration’s unlawful and unconstitutional policies from taking hold.

The ACLU continues to use litigation, advocacy, grassroots mobilization, and public education to dismantle barriers to equality for people of color.

LU discrimination that endangers our children and funnels them into the school-to-prison pipeline.

This is both a racial justice and a gender justice issue: Black women face eviction at twice the rate of white renters.

And once a family has been evicted, the devastating harms can follow them for years, preventing them from securing stable housing anywhere else.

We continued our litigation against a Trump administration rule that decimates fair housing and creates an obstacle to challenging discriminatory eviction policies that target women of color, among others.

The Biden administration has taken the first step of reviewing the rule—partially in response to our litigation—and we’ve leveraged our suit to ensure it is repealed and replaced with one that effectively addresses housing discrimination.

Racial Justice Program Racism has played an active role in the creation of our systems of education, health care, ownership, and employment since this nation’s founding.

and their ability to engage in political, social, or religious expression without fear of punishment.

Brandi Levy (pictured above), a high school cheerleader, posted this message to the social media platform after failing to be recruited to the varsity cheer squad.

Whether it’s a high school cheerleader or a civil rights protester, the ACLU is achieving major victories for everyone’s First Amendment rights.

In states such as Idaho, Louisiana, and Tennessee, we’ve opposed state lawmakers’ attempts to ban educators in public schools and universities from even discussing supposedly “divisive concepts” such as critical race theory, which explores how systemic racism is deeply ingrained in American institutions, as well as gender equality and LGBTQ rights.

This censorship wouldn’t just set back progress in addressing systemic issues—it would also rob young people of an inclusive education.

On the privacy front, the ACLU has also remained vigilant about police surveillance, a growing problem in recent years due to the technological advances of overfunded police departments.

He was arrested in front of his family after one such case of mistaken identity.

The ACLU, the NAACP, and the Southern Poverty Law Center swiftly condemned the law in a federal lawsuit.

When it comes to our redistricting work, we’re focusing on state legislatures, where civil liberties and civil rights laws are being made.

If those legislatures are more representative of their communities, we can soften the assaults on our rights, such as restrictions on abortion and bans on health care for transgender people.

As the right to abortion hangs in the balance, so too does access to abortion care—nowhere more pronounced than in Texas.

For example, in Texas, the poverty rate for Black and Latinx women is disproportionately high: and 20% of Latinx women live in poverty.

In Arkansas, the ACLU and Planned Parenthood successfully challenged a six-week abortion ban In Guam, an ACLU-mounted challenge has cleared the way to restore abortion access on the island by allowing the use of medication abortion In North Carolina, we’re fighting to block a law that prohibits medical professionals from providing abortion, a ban on telehealth for medication abortions, and a mandatory waiting period for patients seeking an abortion In Tennessee, we blocked a six-week ban and a ban based on a fetal diagnosis In an ACLU victory for medication abortion, the FDA will review its outdated, medically unnecessary restrictions on mifepristone Abortion is health care.

The Supreme Court famously invalidated the law in to privacy encompasses a woman’s decision whether or not to continue her pregnancy.

As one result of those negotiations, in September, the Biden administration’s Family Reunification Task Force launched a new program to help separated family members return to the United States.

Once in the United States, these individuals will receive three-year residency visas, work permits, and supportive services.

This policy restricted immigration at the border and denied asylum-seekers a fair trial under the guise of protecting public health.

We will keep working to get the administration to close more of these facilities, continuing to focus on those that fall in remote locations with compromised access to legal counsel and external medical care, and those that have documented patterns of inhumane treatment and conditions.

After years of struggling with mental health challenges, the thriving, finally able to fully experience the joys of girlhood.

Arkansas legislators passed H.B. bans gender-affirming health care for trans minors, meaning doctors can’t perform surgery or prescribe hormones to anyone under 18.

It also bans the use of health insurance or state funds in paying for any of this type of care.

TRANSGENDER YOUTH We mounted successful legal challenges across the country this year to ensure transgender youth can access life-saving medical care and participate in school sports. continued Brooke Dennis (above), were plaintiffs in the ACLU’s successful case against Arkansas’ ban on gender-affirming health care.

If enacted, Sabrina would have lost access to the treatment she needed along with other vulnerable trans youth across the state.

The ACLU moved swiftly to sue the state of Arkansas over the ban, challenging its constitutionality on the grounds that it violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Amendment.

With the law in place, she no longer would have been able to access gender-affirming care.

And many of the restrictions take sharp aim at the rights of transgender kids across the country, endangering their well-being and their lives.

“ I know first-hand that gender-affirming care is life-saving care.

I can’t imagine going back, or being denied care that my doctors and parents agree that I need.” Dylan Brandt (left), plaintiff families that challenged Arkansas’ trans health care ban.

Then: Sir Lady Java For many trans and non-binary people, particularly Black trans women, they aren’t safe in their homes, at their workplaces, or on the street.

The ACLU is fighting alongside trans and nonbinary communities to ensure they can live without fear of discrimination.

The law was meant to target the LGBTQ community and was used as cover to terrorize them in places they gathered.

Lew, who grew up in fair housing in the Bronx, says the privilege of having moved among such contrasting sectors of society has informed her approach to investing.

Lew has been advising the ACLU in a volunteer capacity for nearly 14 years.

She is particularly proud of steering the ACLU’s asset management from a large corporate bank to a smaller firm The ACLU community is made up of members; 4.6 million online activists; 2,000 volunteer attorneys; and hundreds of coalition, foundation, and corporate partners.

THE NEXT GENERATION All of the work detailed in this report would not be possible without the full weight of the ACLU community.

She credits much of her daughters’ passionate views on social justice to her late husband, Virgil Jackson, who died of cancer in 2020.

He “had a lot of moral indignation” over race and gender issues and encouraged debate and discussion at the family dinner table.

That legacy endures in the family’s dedication to the ACLU.

The eulogy lovingly and humorously compiled a list of including: #28, Vote in every election; #58, Civil liberties require defending; and #70, Prioritize the next generation.

FINANCIAL SUMMARY The ACLU is composed of two organizations: the American Civil Liberties Union (the 501(c)(4) arm), whose focus is legislative work at the federal and state levels; and the ACLU Foundation (the 501(c)(3) arm), whose focus is litigation and public education.

You can defend and advance civil liberties by donating to either the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) or the ACLU Foundation.

Gifts to the Foundation are tax deductible and support our litigation, communications, and public education efforts.

Rainforest Action Network preserves forests, protects the climate and upholds human rights by challenging corporate power and systemic injustice through frontline partnerships and strategic campaigns.

Always, it comes back to our mission: We will preserve the rainforests, protect the climate, and uphold human rights.

Uphold Human Rights The recognition of the sovereignty of Indigenous Peoples to decide what happens in their own territories is crucial and urgent.

But RAN, our partners and our community of supporters have shown up in force, peacefully and safely.

fighting to protect their water, their community and our future.

from our Community Action Grants program to frontline organizations, such as the Giniw Collective, an Indigenous women-led effort to protect Anishinaabe territory from the destruction of Enbridge’s Line group supporting resistance to the pipeline.

That’s why we wanted to set the record straight on Liberty Mutual’s climate and human rights policies.

Our goal is to challenge the social and market license for those financing toxic and destructive industries and to pull back the curtain on those profiting from climate chaos.

The report calls on destruction of rainforests and the violation of human rights to disclose their forest footprints.

To confront this constant onslaught, RAN undertakes strategically targeted investigations, meticulous research and analysis, and well crafted messaging across traditional and social media platforms.

But all of this work would have much less impact without our traditional media and social media presence and the amplification from our network.

Sometimes that means months of behind the scenes work to place highly researched articles in global media outlets; sometimes that means pitching Op-Eds on flashpoint issues; sometimes that means creating eye-catching graphics that fit into our carefully crafted social media campaigns.

Since 1993, RAN’s Community Action Grants program has distributed more than 5.5 million dollars through over 1,000 grants to frontline communities, Indigenous-led organizations, and allies, helping their efforts to secure protection for millions of acres of traditional territory in forests around the world and helping to keep millions of tons of carbon in the ground.

our climate and upholding human rights — this is a core principle at Rainforest Action Network.

Protect an Acre grants support grassroots leadership and local organizations in forest regions to protect threatened forest lands and to protect the human rights of communities that have coexisted with and depended on these regions for generations.

Protect-an-Acre (PAA) Highlights Articulação Nacional das Mulheres Guerreiras da Ancestralidade (ANMIGA) and Mujeres Amazonicas $in the 2nd Indigenous Women’s March in Brasilia to mobilize against the attacks on Indigenous land rights that are being pushed through Congress and the judiciary in Brazil.

Cabildo Siona de Buenavista $defend their rights and fortify their community land patrols to defend their territory against illegal incursions by extractive interests and armed actors.

The communities, including the Pargamanan Bintang Maria-Parlilitan community, are being supported with documentation, including mapping and aerial photos of forest cover in their customary areas, as well as through networking and advocacy work as part of a multi-year effort to secure land rights to more than communities.

Highlights Giniw Collective $women-led to protect Anishinaabe territory from the destruction of Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline, through trainings, community outreach and education, mobilizations and relationship building within the broader movement.

LASTING Impact CIRCLE RAN’s Lasting Impact Circle recognizes those individuals who have included Rainforest Action Network in their long term charitable plans, contributing to a legacy that will protect our climate, keep forests standing, and uphold human rights.

By joining the Lasting Impact Circle, you join a community bound in a vision of a just, renewable future.

Thank you for weathering the storms with us as we have gotten through lockdowns and social distancing.

This year was our first being funded for a focused Salt Watch program in one community with Gaithersburg Salt Watch.

It has been a great opportunity for us to see what it takes to turn the tide around salt use at the community level.

Staff has participated in community events, like farmers markets and a holiday Jingle Jubilee, giving out Salt Watch kits and information about chloride runoff to community members.

earned a stream health score of Acceptable, and 13% of sites could not be determined.

This new agreement continues our work supporting volunteer and community monitoring, and expands the type of groups that we work with across the Chesapeake watershed .