The New York Civil Liberties Union today announced the winners of its fifth-annual Freedom in Expression contest, which invited young people in New York City to lend their voices and creativity to the struggle for social justice.

The sixth annual Broadway Stands Up for Freedom concert was a smashing, sold-out success. Dozens of Broadway's finest - including musical director Seth Rudetsky and leading actors from Jersey Boys, Wicked, the original cast of Rent, Spring Awakening, Spelling Bee, Les Miz and the entire cast of Godspell - took to the stage to salute the work of the New York Civil Liberties Union.

The New York Civil Liberties Union and the National Coalition Against Censorship today urged Gov. David Paterson to veto legislation that would establish a state system for regulating the sale and content of video games.

The New York Civil Liberties Union today expressed its outrage at draft regulations proposed by the Bush administration that could jeopardize access to basic health care services for millions of women in New York and across the country.

Responding to public pressure and a lawsuit by the New York Civil Liberties Union, New York City today issued rules that respect the constitutional right to photograph and film on sidewalks and other public places.

A medical examiner’s report put out late Friday evening on Esmin Green, the 49-year-old Brooklyn woman who died neglected last month on the floor of Kings County Hospital’s psychiatric emergency room, raises more questions than it answers, said advocates who filed a major civil rights lawsuit against the hospital last year.

The American Civil Liberties Union and its New York affiliate, the New York Civil Liberties Union, today filed a landmark lawsuit to stop the government from conducting surveillance under a new wiretapping law that gives the Bush administration virtually unchecked power to intercept Americans’ international e-mails and telephone calls.

New York City today embraced government secrecy and announced it would appeal a court-order that the NYPD disclose its electronic database detailing police stops of hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers, most of whom were black and Latino. The New York Civil Liberties Union sued the NYPD to get access to the database and won the case in State Supreme Court in May.

Following up on its landmark legal victory that recognized lesbian and gay couples’ valid out-of-state marriages, the New York Civil Liberties Union today filed a lawsuit in the Erie County Supreme Court against an insurance company for denying spousal health care benefits to a validly married lesbian couple.

The lawsuit and call for a criminal investigation announced today by the family of Esmin Green have been expected given the 49-year-old Brooklyn woman’s shameful death last month on the floor of Kings County Hospital’s psychiatric emergency room, said advocates who filed a major civil rights lawsuit against the hospital last year.