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JOB TITLE: Community Education & Training AdvocateThe ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties (ACLU-SDIC) is seeking a full-time Community Education & Training Advocate to work as part of our local team to broaden and maximize our efforts to: educate marginalized communities about their constitutional rights and to build capacity in the education, social service, community health, and faith sectors.Under the direction of the Advocacy Director and working in collaboration with the legal and communications departments, the Community Education & Training Advocate will play an integral role in developing programs to ensure the ACLU-SDIC affiliate is effective in reaching immigrant, AMEMSA (Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, Southeast Asian), LGBTQ, and low-income people, and communities of color that disproportionately experience higher rates of constitutional rights abuses. This position will ensure strategic expansion of the ACLU-SDIC’s community education program and will help advance our organization’s mission, vision and integrated advocacy model.About the ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties and ACLU of California AffiliatesThe ACLU-SDIC is a civil liberties and civil rights organization that uses the tools of litigation, legislation, policy, communications, and organizing to advance equality, freedom, and justice. The ACLU-SDIC is one of three affiliates comprising the ACLU of California. In addition to the San Diego-based office, ACLU of California offices are located Los Angeles, Orange County, the Inland Empire and Fresno (ACLU of Southern California); and San Francisco and Fresno (ACLU of Northern California); and a Sacramento Center for Advocacy and Policy. Together, the ACLU-CA affiliates employ more than 160 staff and have more than 200,000 members. In addition to robust collaboration across the ACLU state and national networks, the ACLU-SDIC values strategic partnerships and collaboration with community organizations and groups region-wide.The ACLU-SDIC utilizes an integrated approach to our advocacy work and has a proven track record of success combining litigation, policy advocacy, legislation, research and analysis, public education, strategic communications, and community organizing to achieve meaningful social change.Key areas of work Based in San Diego, the Community Education & Training Advocate will focus on the following work areas:

JOB TITLE: Senior Manager of Program Collaboration Based in San Diego, Los Angeles or San Francisco Application deadline: August 4, 2017About the Opportunity The ACLU of California seeks a capable, flexible, and thoughtful Senior Manager of Program Collaboration who thrives in a dynamic, fast-faced, non-profit advocacy organization, skillfully handling a range of planning and coordination responsibilities in rapidly changing environment. This position is accountable to the Executive Directors of the three ACLU affiliates of California—the ACLU of Northern California, ACLU of Southern California and ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties. The person in this position will be managed on a day to day basis by the Executive Director of one of the affiliates.The Approach You are an experienced manager with sophisticated interpersonal and communication skills who builds teams, develops plans, and works collaboratively with colleagues to design and complete a range of complex projects. You demonstrate good judgement; you are professional at all times, treating everyone with dignity and respect; you manage stressful situations with grace and poise.The Position Your job is to foster inclusive planning processes, ensure real collaboration, and facilitate effective communication across the teams, issues, strategies, and geographies that comprise the ACLU of California Collaboration.About the Organization The ACLU of California is the statewide collaboration of the ACLU of Southern California, the ACLU of Northern California, and the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties, also known as “affiliates” of a nationwide, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the defense and expansion of civil liberties and civil rights. For most of the last century, it has been at the heart of many of the most major – and sometimes controversial – struggles for civil liberties and civil rights in our state. Our mission is to ensure that Constitutional rights don’t just exist on paper, but are protected in practice. As we move into a new era and face dangerous policies that threaten our civil rights and civil liberties, we remain dedicated to confronting these issues and defending the progress we have made. We must use our decades of experience in impact litigation, legislative advocacy, and fearless organizing to fight these un-American policies and protect our most cherished rights and freedoms. We are the resistance. Join us.About the ACLU of California Collaboration The ecosystem of this Collaboration is complex. We work across a large number of major civil rights issues, with eight of these issues organized each into a statewide team, and additional issues addressed locally or as needed statewide. We work across a number of major strategies, including litigation, policy advocacy, legislative advocacy, organizing, and communications. And we work across geographies, including not just the three affiliate headquarters in San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego, but also the Sacramento Center for Advocacy and Policy and regional offices in Fresno, Orange County, and San Bernardino.ACLU of California’s vision is to enhance our protection of civil liberties statewide through collaboration. By leveraging our resources, respective strengths, collective strength, and by aligning our strategies, we will maximize ACLU’s statewide reach and impact.Duties & Responsibilities

The California Money Bail Reform Act is sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union of California, the Anti-Recidivism Coalition, Californians for Safety and Justice, the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Essie Justice Group, the California Public Defenders Association, Silicon Valley De-Bug, SEIU California, and the Western Center on Law and Poverty.
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SAN DIEGO – The ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties sent a letter today asking the City of Vista to remove unconstitutional conditions on peaceful protests outside Rep. Darrell Issa’s office. For months, people have been gathering for demonstrations near the congressman’s office on the 1800 block of Thibodo Road. Earlier this year, Ellen Montanari, the organizer of the weekly protest, requested a permit from the city and was issued one effective through April 25. She later requested a longer permit but was issued one with an increased number of conditions that expired on May 31.David Loy, Legal Director with the ACLU-SDIC, said the conditions on the permit are inappropriate and unconstitutional, especially the requirement to move the protest across the street, 100 feet from the office. “The First Amendment means that the government can’t tell the people where and how to protest in a public forum, unless it passes a strict test. The city failed that test.”Ms. Montanari applied for a permit last month and asked the city to extend it through the summer, but the city has waited until this morning to issue a new permit and only through June 30. Throughout the protests, she has worked cooperatively with the city and law enforcement officers to ensure that the events are peaceful and safe, including the use of volunteer monitors and pylons and safety tape.There is no justifiable reason not to allow the protests to continue on the sidewalk, Loy said.“By organizing a protest on a public sidewalk, Ms. Montanari is engaging in political speech that is guaranteed the highest level of protection,” Loy wrote.A copy of the ACLU letter to the City of Vista can be found here.

The California Money Bail Reform Act is sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union of California, the Anti-Recidivism Coalition, Californians for Safety and Justice, the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Essie Justice Group, the California Public Defenders Association, Silicon Valley De-Bug, SEIU California, and the Western Center on Law and Poverty.
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