Walk with PRIDE! …in solidarity with the Capital PRIDE Parade

JOIN US SATURDAY
JUNE 9TH @ 3:00pm!

ACLU members are proud of our history in working to make real the pledge of "Liberty and Justice for All."

Walk with us June 9th and help make American history again!

The ACLU was founded in1920 when immigrants, socialists and labor leaders were being targeted, harassed, detained and deported—not because most of the ACLU were immigrants (we weren't), but because we were Americans who recognized injustice and cared about protecting our neighbors.

[And, to be fair, we knew that a government powerful enough to strip rights from one group could do that to anyone.]

When 40,000 KKKers marched down Pennsylvania Avenue and Klan-controlled school boards fired Catholics and blacks nationwide, the ACLU stood up to them—not because the ACLU was mostly Catholic or black (we weren't), but because we were Americans who recognized injustice and cared about protecting our neighbors.

When loyal Japanese-Americans were ripped from their homes and forced into camps, the ACLU stood up for them—not because we were mostly Japanese-Americans (we weren't), but because we were Americans who recognized injustice and cared about protecting our neighbors.

When African-Americans stood up against segregation and Jim Crow laws, the ACLU was in the front ranks—not because most of us were black (we weren't), but because we were Americans who recognized injustice and cared about protecting our neighbors.

When laws to 'protect' women ended up restricting their lives, the ACLU led the fight for women's equality—not because most of the ACLU were women (we weren't), but because we were Americans who recognized injustice and cared about protecting our sisters, wives, daughters, mothers and neighbors.

After 9-11, when loyal Moslem-, Arab- and South Asian Americans were targeted, harassed, detained and deported, the ACLU stood upfor them—not because the ACLU is mostly Moslem (we aren't), but because we recognize injustice and care about protecting our neighbors.

Now when gay people are denied basic protections in most of the country and subject to being fired just for being gay, when kids are regularly harassed and even beaten at schools, when Karl Rove has decided vilifying lesbian and gay Americans and writing discrimination into the Constitution are decent politics, ACLU members are standing up again—not because most ACLUers are gay (we aren't), but because we recognize injustice and care about protecting our neighbors (and friends and family members).

For some young people today, standing up against anti-gay prejudice is the new civil rights movement—not because they're gay, but because they too recognize injustice and care about protecting their neighbors.

Because you too recognize injustice, please join the ACLU in showing support for our gay neighbors and Walk with Pride during the Capital Gay Pride Parade on Saturday, June 9th, starting at 3:00pm. We will rendezvous at the old ACLU-NCA offices outside 1400 20th Street, NW, off Dupont Circle metro.

Sign up at (202) 457-0800, email felicia@aclu-nca.org, donate online at www.aclu-nca.org.

LET'S SHOW OUR SOLIDARITY!