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Q & A: Montes Voting Rights Case

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Thursday, January 21, 2016
In 2012, the ACLU filed a lawsuit (Montes v. Yakima) on behalf of Yakima residents Mateo Arteaga and Rogelio Montes in the U.S. District Court for Eastern Washington, charging that Yakima’s at-large City Council election system violated Section 2 of the federal Voting Rights Act.
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Martin Mendiola: Striving to Put Ethics into Action

Published: 
Friday, January 15, 2016
Martin Mendiola is interning with the ACLU-WA Communications Department to apply what he’s learning in school.
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ACLU-WA Asks Court to Overturn Anti-Panhandling Law

Published: 
Friday, January 8, 2016
The ACLU of Washington has filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the Washington Supreme Court to strike down a Lakewood ordinance that unconstitutionally infringes on freedom of speech.
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Marty Jacobs: Working for Big-Picture Change

Published: 
Monday, January 4, 2016
Since November, Marty Jacobs has been volunteering as a researcher on the ACLU-WA’s campaign to end the death penalty.
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