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		<title>VIDEO: Aja Riggs, Cancer Patient, Joins Aid in Dying Lawsuit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 18:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micah McCoy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2KdfENYpTU &#160; TRANSCRIPT: Good morning. My name is Aja Riggs. I’m 48 years old, and I live in Santa Fe. In March, I heard a report on the radio about two doctors asking a court to clarify the status of aid in dying under New Mexico law. I am here today to announce that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Crossing the Line,&#8221; a PBS Investigation of Border Patrol Brutality</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micah McCoy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ACLU of New Mexico Regional Center for Border Rights and the Southern Border Communities Coalition has worked to shed light on Border Patrol brutality and rights abuses—including the eight men and boys agents have shot and killed over the past two years. On April 20, we shocked the nation with the exposé “Crossing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ACLU of New Mexico to be Featured on PBS &#8216;Need to Know.&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micah McCoy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiHvKOlpUb8&#38;feature=player_embedded In partnership with the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute, Need to Know investigates whether U.S. border agents have been using excessive force in an effort to curb illegal immigration. Eight people have been killed along the border in the past two years. One man died a short time after being beaten and tased, an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court Ruling Is Not Carte Blanche for Strip Searches</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micah McCoy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the vigorous dissent of four justices, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that the U.S. Constitution does not prohibit jails from routinely strip searching inmates, even if people are booked into facilities for minor offenses and officials have no reason to suspect they are carrying contraband. In other words, even people arrested for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mandatory Photo ID: Making It Harder to Vote</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micah McCoy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Why are some people so aghast at the idea that when we vote we should have to show a photo ID?” &#160; This is the question that Diane Dimond poses in her recent column supporting mandatory photo ID for voting. If Ms. Dimond is sincere in her desire to understand why people would oppose this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drug Testing the Poor: Unconstitutional and Un-American</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micah McCoy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a time when unemployment is high and families are struggling, Representative Steve Pearce (NM-2) picks a callous moment to create unnecessary hurdles for Americans to obtain needed public benefits. Recently, Rep. Pearce filed H.R. 3615 and H.R. 3722, bills that would require people to submit to arbitrary drug testing as a condition of receiving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Las Cruces Rally Is About Discrimination, Not Religious Liberty</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micah McCoy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Religious liberty is the first freedom guaranteed to us as Americans in our Bill of Rights. And for good reason too. The freedom to believe, or hold no religious beliefs at all, is fundamental to our understanding of a free society and has prevented the religious oppression and bloodshed from which many of our European [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VIDEO: Voter Suppression in Albuquerque</title>
		<link>http://aclu-nm.org/video-voter-suppression-in-albuquerque/2012/02/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micah McCoy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Katy Sheridan is a retired grandmother of two who does not own a car. On October 4, 2011, she walked to the polls in the middle of a rainstorm to vote in Albuquerque city elections. She was turned away and told she could not vote because she was not carrying a valid photo ID. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4oH7TnoCSs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forced Parental Notification: Dangerous and Unnecessary</title>
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		<comments>http://aclu-nm.org/forced-parental-notification-dangerous-and-unnecessary/2012/01/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micah McCoy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abortion among teenagers should be made less necessary, not more difficult and dangerous. Many young women are fortunate to have loving and supportive parents and these teens overwhelmingly include their parents in their reproductive health decisions. However, pregnant teenagers also come from troubled homes, where they risk physical and mental abuse by disclosing to one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ACLU Is a Partner, Not an Enemy, of Free Religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micah McCoy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people know the American Civil Liberties Union as one of the oldest and fiercest defenders of religious liberty in the nation. However, Steve Smothermon, the pastor of Legacy Church in Albuquerque, was recently quoted in the Journal accusing the ACLU of attacking his religious beliefs. If Smothermon examined the situation more closely, he’d see [...]]]></description>
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